Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow. Archery has been used for hunting and combat historically. Archery was an important military and hunting skill before the use of gunpowder. Later on archery has become a precision sport.
The sport was reintroduced in Olympics schedule more than 50 years later with the individual event for men and for women in 1972 Munich Olympics. In which John Williams and Doreen Wilber, of the USA, captured the gold medals. This form of the archery competition was held until the 1988 Summer Olympics, when team competition was added and the Grand FITA Round format was used. Barcelona 1992 was the first time that archery featured exciting head-to-head competition and single elimination matches. Since then, archery has been a regular event in the Summer Games.
Olympic Archery History 1900-1992
Archery first appeared in the Olympic Paris Games in 1900 when seven disciplines in varying distances were contested. In St. Louis 1904 Olympics had five archery events but no athletes participated from outside the United States. Women competed in the 1904 Olympics, making archery one of the first sports competitions to include women. At the 1908 Summer Olympics, there were three archery events. Archery was not featured at the 1912 Summer Olympics but reappeared in 1920 Summer Olympic Antwerp, Belgium. After 1920, the sport was dropped from the program as there were no fixed international rules for archery. Hubert van Innis from Belgium is the most decorated archer in Olympic history, winning six gold medals and three silvers in 1900 and 1920.
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The thirtieth Summer Games will be held in the year 2012 in the London Olympic Stadium in London. There will be 300 events in 26 sports in the Thirtieth Summer Games in 2012. Archery event is included in the schedule.
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