World Archery Championships

World Archery Championships
StatusActive
GenreWorld Championship
Date(s)Varying
FrequencyAnnual
CountryVarying
Inaugurated1931 (1931)
Previous event2023 World Archery Championships
Next event2025 World Archery Championships
Organised byWorld Archery Federation

The World Archery Championships are a series of competitions in Archery organised by the World Archery Federation. The first competition held under that title took place in 1931.

Competition archery takes a wide variety of formats, but the title World Championships is commonly reserved for the following three events:[1]

  1. Outdoor World Championships in target Archery
  2. Indoor World Championships in target Archery
  3. World Championships in field Archery.

Of these, the Outdoor World Championships in target Archery is most commonly referred to as simply the 'World Archery Championships', and the winners most commonly referred to as simply "world champions". Events in those outdoor championships are held involving fixed targets at set distances, using a variety of bows, the recurve bow from 1931 and the compound bow since 1995.

Although less widely recognised, World Championship events are also held in Youth archery (outdoor only - field and indoor youth events are held alongside the senior championships), Para-archery, University archery and 3D archery. A ski archery World Championships was last held in 2007, but is not part of the current rotation.[2] Following the accession of archery to permanent sports at the Summer Universiade, the university world championships also ceased to be part of the World Archery Championships rotation in 2014.[2]

World Archery Championships Events

See also: World Archery Federation
Number Events First Last
1 World Outdoor Target Championships 1931 2023 (52nd)
2 World Indoor Target Championships 1991 2018 (14th)
3 World Field Archery Championships 1969 2024 (28th)
4 World 3D Archery Championships 2003 2024 (11th)
5 World Ski Archery Championships 1999 2017 (10th)
6 World Para Archery Championships 1998 2023 (14th)
7 World Youth Archery Championships 1991 2023 (18th)
8 World University Archery Championships 1996 2016 (11th)

And for the divisions as defined in their respective chapters:

  • World Archery Flight Championships;
  • World Archery Ski Championships;
  • World Archery Run Championships.

Despite the above provision, a World Championship does not have to be awarded if the executive board determines it is not appropriate.[3][4]

Outdoor

See also: List of World Championships medalists in archery
Number Year Location Events
1 1931 Lwów 2
2 1932 Warsaw 2
3 1933 London 4
4 1934 Båstad 4
5 1935 Brussels 4
6 1936 Prague 4
7 1937 Paris 4
8 1938 London 4
9 1939 Oslo 4
10 1946 Stockholm 4
11 1947 Prague 4
12 1948 London 4
13 1949 Paris 4
14 1950 Copenhagen 4
15 1952 Brussels 4
16 1954 Oslo 4
17 1955 Helsinki 4
18 1957 Prague 4
19 1958 Brussels 4
20 1959 Stockholm 4
21 1961 Oslo 4
22 1963 Helsinki 4
23 1965 Västerås 4
24 1967 Amersfoort 4
25 1969 Valley Forge 4
26 1971 York 4
27 1973 Grenoble 4
28 1975 Interlaken 4
29 1977 Canberra 4
30 1979 West Berlin 4
31 1981 Punta Ala 4
32 1983 Los Angeles 4
33 1985 Seoul 4
34 1987 Adelaide 4
35 1989 Lausanne 4
36 1991 Kraków 4
37 1993 Antalya 4
38 1995 Jakarta 8
39 1997 Victoria 8
40 1999 Riom 8
41 2001 Beijing 8
42 2003 New York 8
43 2005 Madrid 8
44 2007 Leipzig 8
45 2009 Ulsan 8
46 2011 Turin 10
47 2013 Antalya 10
48 2015 Copenhagen 10
49 2017 Mexico City 10
50 2019 's-Hertogenbosch 10
51 2021 Yankton 10
52 2023 Berlin 10
53 2025 Gwangju[5][6]

All-time medal table (1931–2023)

Updated after the 2023 World Archery Championships.

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 South Korea662627119
2 United States653934138
3 Sweden19222364
4 Poland18161246
5 Soviet Union149427
6 Great Britain11192656
7 Italy119929
8 France9161641
9 Denmark713929
10 Czechoslovakia75921
11 Russia75618
12 Finland6121028
13 Belgium59923
14 Colombia5139
15 Chinese Taipei46717
16 India39315
17 Canada33612
18 China32712
19 Germany27413
20 Australia22913
21 Netherlands18716
22 Turkey1438
23 Norway1416
24 West Germany1315
25 Ukraine1247
26 Hungary1113
27 Iran1102
28 Austria1012
 Slovenia1012
30 Chile1001
 Czech Republic1001
 Moldova1001
33 Mexico08210
34 Japan05611
35 South Africa0358
36 Brazil0112
 North Korea0112
38 Belarus0101
 Croatia0101
 Georgia0101
 Malaysia0101
Russian Archery Federation0101
 Spain0101
44 Bangladesh0011
 El Salvador0011
 Estonia0011
 Indonesia0011
 Kazakhstan0011
 Luxembourg0011
 New Zealand0011
 Venezuela0011
Totals (51 entries)279277275831

Indoor

Main article: World Indoor Archery Championships
Number Year Location Events
1 1991 Oulu 4
2 1993 Perpignan 4
3 1995 Birmingham 8
4 1997 Istanbul 8
5 1999 Havana 8
6 2001 Florence 8
7 2003 Nîmes 8
8 2005 Aalborg 8
9 2007 İzmir 16
10 2009 Rzeszów 16
11 2012 Las Vegas 16
12 2014 Nîmes 16
13 2016 Ankara 16
14 2018 Yankton 16

Para

Main article: World Para Archery Championship
Number Year Location Events
1 1998 Stoke Mandeville
2 1999 Christchurch
3 2001 Nymburk
4 2003 Madrid
5 2005 Massa Carrara
6 2007 Cheongju
7 2009 Nymburk
8 2011 Turin
9 2013 Bangkok
10 2015 Donaueschingen
11 2017 Beijing
12 2019 's-Hertogenbosch
13 2022 Dubai 16
14 2023 Plzeň 17
15 2025 Gwangju

Youth

Main article: World Youth Archery Championships
Number Year Location Events
1 1991 Sandefjord
2 1993 Moliets-et-Maa
3 1994 Roncegno
4 1996 Chula Vista
5 1998 Sunne
6 2000 Belfort
7 2002 Nymburk
8 2004 Lilleshall
9 2006 Mérida
10 2008 Antalya
11 2009 Ogden
12 2011 Legnica
13 2013 Wuxi 20
14 2015 Yankton 20
15 2017 Rosario 20
16 2019 Madrid 20
17 2021 Wrocław 20
18 2023 Limerick 20
19 2025 Winnipeg[7] 20

Field

Main article: World Field Archery Championships
Number Year Location Events
1 1969 Valley Forge
2 1971 Cardiff
3 1972 Gorizia
4 1974 Zagreb
5 1976 Mölndal
6 1978 Geneva
7 1980 Palmerston North
8 1982 Kingsclere
9 1984 Hyvinkää
10 1986 Radstadt
11 1988 Bolzano
12 1990 Loen
13 1992 Margraten
14 1994 Vertus
15 1996 Kranjska Gora
16 1998 Obergurgl
17 2000 Cortina
18 2002 Canberra
19 2004 Plitvice
20 2006 Gothenburg
21 2008 Llwynypia
22 2010 Visegrád
23 2012 Val d'Isère
24 2014 Zagreb
25 2016 Dublin
26 2018 Cortina
27 2021 Yankton
28 2024 Lac La Biche

3D

Main article: World 3D Archery Championships
Number Year Location Events
1 2003 Sully-sur-Loire 8
2 2005 Genoa 8
3 2007 Sopron 10
4 2009 Latina 10
5 2011 Donnersbach 10
6 2013 Sassari 10
7 2015 Terni 10
8 2017 Avignon 10
9 2019 Lac la Biche 10
10 2022 Terni 14
11 2024 Mokrice 14

Ski Archery

The eighth Ski Archery World Championships held in Moscow in Russia in 2013.[8]

Number Year Location Events
1 1999 -
2 2000 -
3 2001 -
4 2005
5 2007
6 2009
7 2011
8 2013 Moscow
9 2015
10 2017

University

Number Year Location Events
1 1996 Vaulx-en-Velin
2 1998 Taoyuan
3 2000 Madrid
4 2002 Chonburi
5 2004 Madrid
6 2006 Viničné
7 2008 Tainan
8 2010 Shenzhen
9 2012 Córdoba
10 2014 Legnica
11 2016 Ulaanbaatar

See also

References

  1. ^ "World Championships". WorldArchery.org. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Search". World Archery. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  3. ^ https://rulebook.worldarchery.org/PDF/Official/2019-04-01/EN-Book2.pdf Archived 14 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Rulebook | World Archery".
  5. ^ "광주, 2025년 세계양궁선수권대회 개최지로 선정".
  6. ^ "Korea to host World Archery Championships in 2025". 5 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Korea to host World Archery Championships in 2025". 5 December 2021.
  8. ^ "Ski Archery World Championships starting today in Moscow". Worldarchery/org. 30 March 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
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