Modern archery competitions review

Added: 10/01/2006
Today, world's major archery competitions are governed and supervised by the International Archery Association (FITA). Olympic archery rules are based on FITA rules as well. It is possible to learn more about the different types of competitive archery including Flight and Clout archery from our competition's review.

    Competitive archery implies shooting arrows at the target for accurateness from a fixed distance or distances. This form of competitive archery is the most popular one and is known as "Target Archery". It is necessary to dedicate the lion's share of our archery competitions review to this very form archery events.

    The first archery competitions to be recorded began at the late 16th century in England. Besides, archery has been contested at Olympics 1900, yet with several interruptions. Lately the Korean archers have dominated at world's archery competitions, especially at women's events. At the 2000 Olympics held in Sydney, the Korean female archers won all three highest awards in the individual archery competition and gold medals in the Olympic team event. The Korean male archers also yield good results. From October 2004 and on, every record in the women's and men's open divisions belongs to Korean athletes.

    Archery events may be both outdoors and indoors. Indoor target distance can be either 18 m or 25 m. Outdoor target distances vary from 30 m to 90 m (for adult athletes, juniors may shoot closer distances). The Olympic distance was set to 70 m by FITA. As a rule, outdoor archery competitions comprise of several distances.

    Traditionally, archery competitions consist of ends. Usually, archer shoots from 3 to 6 arrows per each end, depending on the round's type. After every end, the contestants approach the target to calculate score and pull out their arrows. An average round of indoor competition consists of 5 ends of 6 arrows each. Outdoor competitions vary, but usually outdoor rounds employ more arrows per end. In all official archery competitions archers are allowed to shoot and retrieve arrows only after the relevant commands.

    Each archery event stipulates a set time bound in which archers must shoot their arrows. This limit is most often 2 minutes for indoor events. Special signaling devices and flags notify the athletes when their time is up. As archery deals with the potentially dangerous weapons, a great deal of attention is paid to safety and order.

    Beginning our archery competitions review we should pay attention to the inception. The inception of this archery competitions review is Clout archery. Clout archery much resembles target archery mentioned above, but the archers attempt to aim their arrows at long-range series of rounded scoring areas on the ground nearby a marker flag. The shooting distance is 140 yards for women and 180 yards for men. The marker flag is supposed to be as close to the ground as possible. Athletes shoot ends of 6 arrows each, and then when the signal comes up, approach the target zones. A round of Clout archery typically involves 36 arrows.

    The next type of archery events on archery competitions review is Flight archery. Flight Archery is only implemented where there is enough room that allows such competitions because athletes compete through shooting the arrows for sheer distances. Athletes make a set number of shots and then search the arrow which has passed the farthest distance. Such arrow is then marked with a certain marker. Each round ends with archers standing or sitting by their farthest arrows and judges measuring the distances.
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