World Archery Federation


The World Archery Federation is the governing body of the sport of archery. It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is composed of 156 national federations and other archery associations, and is recognised by the International Olympic Committee.

History

FITA was founded on 4 September 1931 in Lwow, Poland. Its seven founding member states were France, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Poland, the United States, Hungary, and Italy. The aim of the organization was to create regular archery championships, and to return archery to the Olympic Games. FITA was finally successful in returning archery to the Olympic program in the 1972 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 Federation or WA.

Member associations

As of April 2019, 159 national federations and other associations are members of World Archery.
World Archery publishes world rankings for each category of outdoor competitive archery, updated following every official eligible event.
Each archer earns a ranking score for each competition. The ranking scores are calculated through a combination of the ranking factor of the tournament 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.

Current rankings

Current number one ranked archers
DisciplineMenMen's TeamWomenWomen's TeamMixed Team
Recurve China South Korea South Korea
Compound South Korea United States France

Summary Championships

The following table shows the venue of all World Championships on the current World Archery programme:
Denotes inaugural event

Events

Summer Olympics

Archery was first competed at the Summer Olympic Games in 1900 and, after a long hiatus from 1924, became a regular event from 1972. Team events were added in 1988. Recurve archery is currently the only discipline competed at the Olympics.
Archery is also competed at the Summer Paralympics, the Youth Olympic Games, and the World Games.

World Cup

The Archery World Cup is an annual event that was inaugurated in 2006. It is designed to present archery in 'spectacular' locations.
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.
An indoor World Cup, competed in 3 rounds with a final during the winter season, was inaugurated in the 2010-11 season.

World Championships

FITA began holding Target 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 the World Archery Championships: Outdoor, Indoor, Youth, Para-Archery, and Field. Each is held every two years on different rotations. World Championships are also held every two years in 3D archery and University sport. In 2007, a ski archery World Championships was held in Moscow; this is yet to be repeated and is not included in the current rotation.
NumberEventsFirstLast
1World Outdoor Target Championships19312017
2World Indoor Target Championships19912016
3World Field Archery Championships19692016
4World 3D Archery Championships20032017
5World Ski Archery Championships19992017
6World Para Archery Championships19982019
7World Youth Archery Championships19912015
8World University Archery Championships19962016

Other

Archery is an optional sport at the Universiade and the Commonwealth Games.

Current champions

The following archers are the current champions of the major World Archery Federation events:
DisciplineEventSummer Olympics
2016		World Championships
2015		World Cup Final
2017
RecurveMen's Individual
RecurveWomen's Individual
RecurveMen's Team
Ku Bon-chan
Lee Seung-yun
Kim Woo-jin
Oh Jin-hyek
Ku Bon-chan
Kim Woo-jin
RecurveWomen's Team
Chang Hye-jin
Choi Mi-sun
Ki Bo-bae
Tuyana Dashidorzhieva
Ksenia Perova
Inna Stepanova
RecurveMixed Team
Ki Bo-Bae
Ku Bon-chan		 South Korea
Chang Hye-jin
Kim Woojin
CompoundMen's Individual
CompoundWomen's Individual
CompoundMen's Team
Esmaeil Ebadi
Majid Gheidi
Amir Kazempour
CompoundWomen's Team
Olena Borysenko
Viktoriya Dyakova
Mariya Shkolna
CompoundMixed Team
Kim Yun-hee
Kim Jong-ho		 Denmark
Sarah Holst Sönnichsen
Stephan Hansen