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| Abbreviation | WA (formerly FITA) |
|---|---|
| Formation | 4 September 1931; 94 years ago (1931-09-04) |
| Founded at | Lwow, Poland (todayLviv, Ukraine) |
| Type | Federation of national associations |
| Headquarters | Lausanne, Switzerland |
Region served | Worldwide |
| Membership | 159national and other associations |
Official language | English |
President | Greg Easton |
First Vice-president | Jörg Brokamp |
| Affiliations | International Olympic Committee,International World Games Association |
| Website | worldarchery.sport |
World Archery (WA, formerlyFédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc –FITA) is thegoverning body of the sport ofarchery. It is based inLausanne, Switzerland. It is composed of 156 national federations and other archery associations, and is recognised by theInternational Olympic Committee.
FITA was founded on 4 September 1931 in Lwow,Poland (todayLviv,Ukraine). Its seven founding member states were France,Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Poland, the United States, Hungary, and Italy.[1] The aim of the organization was to create regular archery championships, and to return archery to theOlympic Games (the sport had not been featured since 1920). FITA was finally successful in returning archery to the Olympic program in the1972 Summer Olympics.
To celebrate the organization's 80th anniversary in July 2011, a large majority of the FITA Congress voted to change the name from FITA to the World Archery or WA.[2]
In March 2022, in the wake of the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the federation announced that no athlete, team official, or technical official from Russia or Belarus will be permitted to participate in any international archery event, their flags and anthems are banned, and no archery events would be held in the two countries.[3]
In July 2023, on the question that whether or not to re-allow athletics with Russian and/or Belarusian passports to participant international archery competitions under neutral identities, World Archery asked both national archery federations to submit personal data for investigations, as both federations denied to complete such requirements, WA said that it's unlikely to allow neutral athletes unless once procedure can be completely followed.[4]
In December 2023, World Archery launched its ownOTT Service with asubscription video on demand model and live streaming of main events.[5]
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| Use | Sport |
|---|---|
| Proportion | 3:5 |
| Adopted | 1 April 2012 |
| Design | White field with a WA logo |
The WA flag has a white background, with the organization's logo in the middle.[6][7]
As of April 2019, 159 national federations and other associations are members of World Archery.[8]
World Archery publishes world rankings for each category of outdoor competitive archery (men / women; recurve / compound; individual / team / mixed team), updated following every official eligible event.[9]
Each archer earns a ranking score for each competition. The ranking scores are calculated through a combination of the ranking factor of the tournament (as determined by the quality of competition, the number of competitors, and how recently the competition took place) and points based on the competitor's final position in the competition. The archer's four highest ranking scores are then combined to form their 'Added Ranking Score', which forms the basis of the ranking list.[10]
| Outdoor | |||||
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| Discipline | Men | Women | Men's Team | Women's Team | Mixed Team |
| Recurve |  Brady Ellison (USA) |  Lim Si-hyeon (KOR) | South Korea | South Korea | South Korea |
| Compound |  Mathias Fullerton (DEN) |  Andrea Becerra (MEX) |  India | Mexico | India |
| Last Updated: 30 September 2025[11] | |||||
The following table shows the venue of all World Championships on the current World Archery programme:
| Denotes inaugural event |
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Archery was first competed at theSummer Olympic Games in 1900 and, after a long hiatus from 1924, became a regular event from1972. Team events were added in1988.Recurve archery is currently the only discipline competed at the Olympics.
Archery is also competed at theSummer Paralympics (recurve andcompound disciplines), theYouth Olympic Games (recurve only), and theWorld Games (Field archery only).
FITA began holdingTarget World Championships in 1931. They were held every year until 1959, when the Championships became biennial events. 1959 was also the first year that FITA held the World Field Championship.
Presently, there are five principal formats of theWorld Archery Championships: Outdoor, Indoor, Youth, Para-Archery, andField. Each is held every two years on different rotations. World Championships are also held every two years in3D archery and University sport. In 2007, aski archery World Championships was held in Moscow; this is yet to be repeated and is not included in the current rotation.[12]
| Number | Events | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | World Outdoor Target Championships | 1931 | 2019 (50th) |
| 2 | World Indoor Target Championships | 1991 | 2018 (14th) |
| 3 | World Field Archery Championships | 1969 | 2018 (26th) |
| 4 | World 3D Archery Championships | 2003 | 2019 (9th) |
| 5 | World Ski Archery Championships | 1999 | 2017 (10th) |
| 6 | World Para Archery Championships | 1998 | 2019 (12th) |
| 7 | World Youth Archery Championships | 1991 | 2019 (16th) |
| 8 | World University Archery Championships | 1996 | 2016 (11th) |
TheArchery World Cup is an annual event that was inaugurated in2006. It is designed to present archery in 'spectacular' locations.[13]
The format consists of 4 rounds competed across the world during a calendar year. The best individual and mixed team performers across these rounds are then invited to compete in the World Cup Final at the end of the year.[14]
An indoor World Cup, competed in 3 rounds with a final during the winter season, was inaugurated in the 2010–11 season.
Archery is an optional sport at theUniversiade and theCommonwealth Games.
The following archers are the current champions of the major World Archery Federation events:
| Discipline | Event | Summer Olympics 2024 | World Championships 2025 | World Cup Series Final 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recurve | Men's Individual | Kim Woo-jin (KOR) |  Andrés Temiño (ESP) | Kim Woo-jin (KOR) |
| Women's Individual | Lim Si-hyeon (KOR) | TBD |  Li Jiaman (CHN) | |
| Men's Team | South Korea (KOR) Kim Je-deok Kim Woo-jin Lee Woo-seok | South Korea Kim Je-deok Kim Woo-jin Lee Woo-seok | ||
| Women's Team | South Korea (KOR) Jeon Hun-young Lim Si-hyeon Nam Su-hyeon |  Chinese TaipeiChiu Yi-ching Hsu Hsin-tzu Li Cai-xuan | ||
| Mixed Team | South Korea (KOR) Lim Si-hyeon Kim Woo-jin | Spain Elia Canales Andrés Temiño | ||
| Compound | Men's Individual |  Nicolas Girard (FRA) | James Lutz (USA) | |
| Women's Individual | Andrea Becerra (MEX) | Mariana Bernal (MEX) | ||
| Men's Team | India Prathamesh Fuge Aman Saini Rishabh Yadav | |||
| Women's Team | Mexico Andrea Becerra Mariana Bernal Adriana Castillo | |||
| Mixed Team |  NetherlandsSanne de Laat Mike Schloesser |
| Period | Name | Country |
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1931 | Mieczysław Fularski |  Poland |
| 1931 – 1939 | Bronisław Pierzchała | Poland |
| 1946 – 1949 | Paul Demare | France |
| 1949 – 1957 | Henry Kjellson |  Sweden |
| 1957 – 1961 | Oscar Kessels |  Belgium |
| 1961 – 1977 | Inger Kristine Frith |  Great Britain |
| 1977 – 1989 | Francesco Gnecchi-Ruscone |  Italy |
| 1989 – 2005 | James L. Easton |  United States |
| 2005 – 2025 | Uğur Erdener |  Turkey |
| 2025 – | Greg Easton | United States |
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