The World Archery World Cup is celebrating its 10th year in existence in this 2015 outdoor season. The event, which tours iconic locations across the globes for its stages and grand final, was started in 2006 as part of the…
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World Cup celebrates 10 years!
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New indoor training facility open
A new indoor archery training facility has opened in Bedfordshire. Aim4Sport has opened up an indoor coaching range after hearing about the problems that can hold up indoor sessions. Dave Leader and Gaynor Hutchison, owners of Aim4Sport, explained, “Looking at…
Robert Hardy at The Longbow Shop
Robert Hardy, actor and longbow expert, will be giving a talk on the English longbow at The Longbow Shop to mark the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt. As well as a talk on the subject the actor,…
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Archery petition launched!
A petition has been launched to ask the president of the Commonwealth Games Federation to make archery a core sport. Charlie Keeble set up the petition, and said, “I strongly believe that archery is worthy of being a core sport…
Performance director leaves Archery GB
Sara Symington, Archery GB‘s performance director, has left the organisation to take up a position at England Netball. This means Archery GB is now recruiting for the position of performance director, who is responsible for leading the World Class programme with…
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Athletes of the Year
World Archery announced the results of its Athletes of the Year poll at a gala held in Las Vegas during the Vegas Shoot and fourth round and finals of the Indoor World Cup. The winners were: Men’s compound – Pierre-Julien…
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Two new X10s
Easton has introduced two new shaft sizes for the X10 arrow. In response to an increasing number of top recurve archers shooting bows of draw weights over 53 pounds, the company has developed two stiffer spines to reduce the need…
Mixed teams in Tokyo?
World Archery is putting forward bids to include a mixed team event in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The motion was agreed at a meeting of the federation’s executive board in Nottingham, UK, and will be put forward to the…
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New World Cup hosts announced
World Archery has announced some new stage venues for future World Cup events. Stages are awarded for three years, so organisers have a chance to build on and promote sequential events, and the host cities for 2017-2019 will be Salt…
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ATA Highlights: Win&Win
Win&Win had several products from the new WiaWis line on show in Indianapolis. The WiaWis series is a development and renewal of the Inno series, but with the addition of nano carbon to the carbon fibres used in the construction…
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