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Archer in Benin. Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows. [ 1 ] The word comes from the Latin arcus, meaning bow. [ 2 ] Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern times, it is mainly a competitive sport and recreational activity.
Linda Ann Myers (born June 19, 1947) is a former World Champion archer who represented the United States. Myers was born in York, Pennsylvania, and was selected to represent the United States at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics, where she finished 5th and 7th respectively. [1][2][3] She became the World Champion at the 1973 World Archery ...
Modern competitive archery. Modern competitive archery involves shooting arrows at a target for accuracy and precision from a set distance or distances. This is the most popular form of competitive archery worldwide and is called target archery. A form particularly popular in Europe, North America, and South America is field archery, shot at ...
World Archery (WA, formerly Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc (FITA)) 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.
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 ] World Championships ...
The archer's paradox is the phenomenon of an arrow traveling in the direction it is pointed at full draw, when it seems that the arrow would have to pass through the starting position it was in before being drawn, where it was pointed to the side of the target. The bending of the arrow when released is the explanation for why the paradox occurs ...
Deepika Kumari (born 13 June 1994) is an Indian professional archer. She won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the women's individual recurve event. She also won a gold there in the women's team recurve event with Dola Banerjee and Bombayala Devi. [3] She won individual gold in two of the three stages of the World Cup—one in ...
Jeon Hun-young (Korean: 전훈영; born 29 May 1994) [1] is a South Korean archer.She qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics: in the women's team event, she, Lim Si-hyeon, and Nam Su-hyeon set the Olympic record in the ranking round and subsequently won the gold medal, defeating China in the final.