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.
Well, it’s almost upon us; the most troubled Summer Olympics in all our living history, the first one of what we’ll probably all be calling ‘the COVID era’ someday. It’s happening, but it is possibly the most unpopular Olympics ever held, if the opinion polls of various Japanese newspapers are to be believed. (We’ve explored a few of the issues around holding it towards the back of this issue of your soaraway Bow.) The Olympics remains the biggest thing in the archery world; the bump in awareness boosts interest, numbers and the business of archery all over the world (and that includes compounds). The world of archery needs the shot in the arm every four years that the Games generates, and this year more than ever. In the past few…
The final Olympic places for Tokyo 2020 were awarded over a three-day qualification session in Paris, prior to the third World Cup event of the season. Fifty nations have qualified, pending full acceptance of places by national Olympic committees. Mexico, the USA and Italy won the last three women’s team Olympic quotas, the first two via shootoffs. France, Indonesia, and the USA took the men's team spots. In the last scramble for individual spots on Monday, Finland, Hungary, Israel, Moldova, Poland, Russia and Ukraine men all won spots, with Israel making an Olympic archery debut. Women's spots were won by Greece, Poland, the Czech Republic, Mongolia, and Romania. Archers from Bangladesh, Chad, Malawi and the US Virgin Islands were awarded the four universality places for smaller and developing nations in…
The Gwangju Asia Cup Leg 1 was held in South Korea from 6-11 June. While underattended by recent international standards, teams from Bangladesh, Japan, Malaysia and Tajikistan joined the hosts at the world ranking event. It was the younger members of the Korean recurve team that triumphed, as 17-year-old Kim Je Deok and 22-year-old Jang Minhee won the men's and women's competitions respectively. Minhee beat 20-year-old An San, also on the Tokyo-bound team. The best non-Korean result in Gwangju came from Yuki Kawata of Japan, who beat veteran teammate and Olympic silver medallist Takaharu Furukawa to recurve men’s bronze. Kim Woojin (with a 697), Kim Jongho (712) and So Chaewon (710) broke the Asian records for qualification, at the Korean squad’s first international event in more than 12 months.…
Mike Shepherd, former president of GNAS and longtime chairman of Cheshire Archery Association has died age 90. He started in archery 45 years ago and devoted much of his life and time to the sport. He held many posts in his club, Cheshire, and at GNAS (now AGB), and was the co-editor of Archery UK magazine for many years. Mike was an avid field and target archer who always loved to help others and inspired so many archers to achieve their potential. He had a wicked sense of humour and always had a joke to tell. He always had time for a chat and encouragement at tournaments and never failed to find something positive in the competition. His many endeavours and achievements are celebrated by his club, his county and…
Team GB are currently attempting to persuade Tokyo 2020 that it will be safe for them to compete, after reports that Japan was threatening to add Britain to a 'red list' of countries due to an increase in the spread of coronavirus variants. The BOA have said that so far 86 per cent of Britain’s 300-plus Olympic team due to compete in the Japanese capital have received at least one vaccine dose. In a letter sent to the President of Tokyo 2020 Seiko Hashimoto in June, British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Sir Hugh Robertson said that Team GB athletes and staff were "doing everything possible to minimise risk" in the lead-up to the Olympic Games. Robertson promised the hosts that the BOA would "do everything we can to get the…
Easton has announced a new shaft in their traditional line of arrows. The Carbon Legacy comes complete with three 4” left wing helical feathers, including a traditional barred index feather with combinations of solid red, white, and bright yellow hen feathers. “We really wanted to make the Carbon Legacy something special,” stated Gary Cornum, Easton Marketing Director. “We went back into our archives and found some of Doug Easton's 1920’s arrows and borrowed ideas from his original wood shafts to inspire the look we were going for.” Legacy is available in 340, 400, 500, 600, and 700 spines, and includes RPS inserts and 6.5mm 3D Super Nocks. The US price is expected to be around $70 for a 6-pack, feather-fletched.…
