Bow International is the world's only specialist target archery print magazine, and within each issue you'll find news and reviews, new gear, technique, advice and tips; plus exclusive interviews from the world's greatest archers.
Welcome to Issue 189, our World Cup Round-up. Instead of regurgitating what has already been said in the newsreels, Bow brings you its own take on the season. We start with Duncan Busby’s meticulous number-crunching for all four World Cup Stages. Felicity May continues with her W. C. host venue history, highlighting most spectacular backdrops to archery’s most important matches. Sophie Meering catches up with Ella Gibson, who shares her thoughts on the 11-point-score system. Our gear fans will be treated to top picks for target and field archery footwear, a selection of the most useful arrow gadgets to help tuning and arrow building at home, as well as another useful article by Duncan Busby on compound arrow rest types. Andrew Smith, a long-time archery shop manager, starts off a…
Actor and official Robin Hood of Nottingham, Tim Pollard, passed away on June 28th, aged 61, following a “short brave battle with cancer”. Everyone at Bow extends our sincerest condolences to the family and friends of the beloved symbol of Nottingham. Nottingham City Council employed Tim to appear at various events. Here are just a few of the responses to the sad news: “His laughter, his spirit, and his incredible friendship touched countless lives”; “He was always willing to share a joke and worldly advice”; “It was always a pleasure to see him around, and he was always *my* Robin Hood”. Besides his work for the city of Nottingham, Tim worked with several charities, supporting and raising money for the breast cancer charities. His wife Sally, who played Maid Marian…
This July saw two new international events feature Para archery. First up is the 2025 European Para Youth Games in Istanbul, Türkiye, taking place on 21 – 28 of July. This 7th instalment of the biannual multisport continental event featured archery for the first time. 26 archers from 7 countries, Azerbaijan, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Slovakia and host Türkiye, competed in three categories for individual titles. At this event both genders compete together and are split by bow division – recurve, compound and W1. The second international Para archery debut took place in Mexico, the Americas Para Archery Cup in Morelia. 77 Para athletes from 11 countries took part, a couple of the athletes entering more than one event. This World Cup in Morelia presented a first stage, taking place…
Two higher-tier staff have left Archery GB, Ruth Hall, the CEO of AGB and Ron Van der Hoff from Netherlands, who in April of this year joined as National Team Advisor to the GB’s World Class Performance Programme. Archery GB’s Performance Director, Mark Beecher, said that Ron “has had a big impact on influencing both the daily training environment and international competition delivery”. Ruth Hall was appointed CEO to AGB in May 2023, with a goal to work more closely with the archery community and to help modernise the governance of sport. One of the bigger goals was successful, to win the bid to host the 2028 European Championships, which will take place in Nottingham. Ruth left her post on July 11th, giving the following statement to AGB: “I wish…
With six stages behind us, the Archery GB National Tour finals are almost here. The individuals’ highest top four National Tour stage results are added together, and the archers are then ranked in their categories. The top 8 ranked National Tour archers within the Recurve Men (RM), Recurve Women (RW), Compound Men (CM) and Compound Women (CW), and the top 4 Barebow from Barebow Men (BM) and Barebow Women (BW) divisions will be invited to the National Tour. The Finals take place at Wollaton Hall on the weekend of 30th and 31st August, Compound and Barebow Saturday and Recurve Sunday. For latest results and updates visit: www.archerygb.org. To book visitor tickets and to learn more about the event go to: www.nationaltour.co.uk…
The Hyundai Archery World Cup is the sport’s biggest international tournament circuit, bringing together over 1000 competitors and spanning over 21,000 miles! Beginning in April and covering a total of four stages and four countries, the World Cup is where the best of the best take aim for a chance to reach the grand final, which this year is in Nanjing, China, in October (17th – 19th). The circuit offers the largest prize purse of any outdoor target competition, totalling more than 400,000 Swiss Francs (£370,000/$497,000); with the final four champions each receiving a cool 30,000 Swiss Francs (£27,800/$37,000). Now that’s a good pay day for any professional archer. Each stage hosts individual, team and mixed team categories, and finals are broadcast worldwide on World Archery’s subscription channel Archery+ and…
