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.
A really global edition of Bow, this one. After the double whammy of the World 3D Championships and the World Field Championships — held a continent apart, but featuring several of the same stars — it seems that field and 3D are increasingly part of the conversation around archery at the moment. It certainly feels like their moment has come, although I’m well aware that for a lot of you, it’s all you ever do. We will have a full report from Yankton in the next issue. Closer to home, it was the NFAS paper face tournament, one of their two annual ‘majors’, and Alex Tyler supplies a brilliant report as usual. Kristina Dolgilevica vanished on one of her usual adventures, Korean bow in hand, to the World Nomad Games…
ARCHERY OUT OF THE NEXT COMMONWEALTH GAMES…AGAIN Archery has not been selected for inclusion on the programme of the Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games in Australia following an announcement on the optional sports selected by the organising committee. Unlike the Olympic Games, archery has never been a core sport in the Commonwealth Games, and has in fact appeared only twice in its history. Golf, 3x3 basketball, 3x3 wheelchair basketball, coastal rowing, shooting, para shooting, BMX racing, cross-country mountain biking, track cycling and para track cycling were instead chosen as additional disciplines. Para events are included in the main programme rather than being a separate event, and Archery Australia submitted an innovative bid that would have seen para and able-bodied athletes compete together in a new format for the mixed team competition.…
Great Britain’s Bryony Pitman, the current world number two, has been elected as the field archery representative on World Archery’s athletes’ committee after a vote held at the 2022 World Archery Field Championships in Yankton, USA. Pitman replaces Britain’s Naomi Folkard following the five-time Olympian’s retirement from the sport and transition into coaching. Folkard was also chair of the committee; and Bow’s very own Crystal Gauvin has been appointed as the new chair of the athlete committee.…
Shropshire archer Dave Baron, of Long Mynd Archers, won gold in the 50+ recurve category at the World Police and Fire Games, held this year in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The biennial multi-sport event is open to active and retired police officers, fire service, customs and prison service personnel throughout the world. Over 60 sports are competed in across nine days. Target, 3D and field archery competitions are held. “It was an absolutely brilliant experience. For someone at my level to be able to experience being part of such a great occasion was inspiring. The competition, although close fought, was extremely friendly and the emphasis was on having fun, whilst meeting and building relations with like-minded people from around the world. I would encourage anyone eligible to attend future games,” said Baron.…
The ‘Robin Hood’ of two arrows shot by the Korean mixed team of An San and Kim Je Deok in competition at the Olympics in 2021 has gone on display in a glass tube in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne. The archers donated them to the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage. An San’s arrow smashed into the back of Kim’s arrow already in the target during the semi-finals of the competition. Robin Hoods featuring barrelled X10 arrows are rare, and it is thought to be the first time it has been caught on camera. Both arrows scored the maximum 10 points. …
GBR’s Oliver Hicks scored 673 out of a possible 720 to set a new senior, under-21 and under-18 world record for the barebow men’s 72-arrow 50-metre round at the Hampshire Outdoor Tournament on Saturday, subject to ratification. Ollie’s score at the Waterside Archers ground in Southampton beat the record, set by the USA’s John Demmer, by one point. “With the outdoor season coming to an end it feels the perfect opportunity to reflect on the 2022 outdoor season. I’ve progressed more than I ever imagined this year. At the beginning of the year I could only dream of reaching Hugo Lobb and John Demmer’s world record scores,” he wrote on Facebook. Target archery records were introduced for barebow archers in early 2020. Hicks competed at his first World Archery 3D…
