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Fred Bear (March 5, 1902 – April 27, 1988) was an American bow hunter and manufacturer. Although he did not start bow hunting until he was 29 and did not master the skill for many years, he is widely regarded as a pioneer in the bow hunting community.
Over the next three decades Bear Archery changed hands in a series of mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs from Victor Comptometer to Walter Kidde & Co, [5] Hanson PLC, U.S. Industries, [6] Fenway Partners [7] and the North American Archery Group. In 2003 Escalade Sports acquired the North American Archery Group and currently does business as ...
Para-archery is an adaptation of archery for athletes with a disability, governed by the World Archery (WA) and is one of the sports in the Summer Paralympic Games. [73] There are also several other lesser-known and historical forms of archery, as well as archery novelty games and flight archery, where the aim is to shoot the greatest distance.
Today, the industry's 22 essential "ATA Standards" are defined in the ATA Technical Guidelines, [3] a manual that represents about 50 years of accumulated engineering knowledge and expertise dating to Earl Hoyt, Dick Mauch (Bear Archery), and Chuck Saunders. Although these early manufacturers were business rivals, they wanted archery dealers ...
Bois de Vincennes hosted the first archery competitions for the Summer Olympics at Paris in 1900. Panathinaiko Stadium hosted the archery competitions and the marathon finish for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Sambódromo hosted the archery competitions and the marathon finish for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
This is a List of World Championships medalists in outdoor target archery.The World Archery Championships are one of the three pinnacle events organised by the World Archery Federation and the event with the longest continuous history, the others being the Olympic archery competition (1972–) and the World Cup (2006–).
Field archery is any archery discipline that involves shooting at outdoor targets of varying and often unmarked distance, typically in woodland and rough terrain.. Being a traditional field sport as well as a widely recognized competitive sport in its own right, field archery can be used to improve the techniques and fitness required for bowhunting in a realistic wilderness setting.
"Archery". Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad, Volume Three: Results (PDF). Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. 2001. p. 38. ISBN 0-9579616-1-8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-23 "Archery Official Results Book". Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad (PDF). Organising Committee for the Olympic Games Athens 2004.