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Thursday, 29 December 2011

Olympic Archery History - Sydney 2000

Sydney Summer Games were held in Sydney , the capital city of the state of New South Wales in Australia from 15th September to 1st October in the year 2000 were officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad. The stadium is located in the Sydney Olympic Park near Homebush in Sydney. Stadium Australia was the largest Olympic Stadium. Now the stadium is called Telstra Stadium.The Games were officially opened by Governor General William Deane . In the stadium, the Olympic Flame was lit by Cathy Freeman.

In Sudny Summer Games 10,651 competitors from 199 countries took part. There were 300 events in 28 sports in Sydney 2000 Summer Games and archery was also included. United States won 97 medals with 40 gold, 24 silver and 33 bronze medals in the Sydney 2000 Summer Games.

One hundred twenty eight archers from forty six nations competed in 2000 Sudny Summer Games. One change from the 1996 Olympics was that the team competition was held on two days rather than the one-day format used in Atlanta. This new format for the team competition allowed for the men and women to have their own full day of matches.This change enhanced the enjoyment of the spectators and the worldwide television audience.

Women Korean Team in Traing

The archers competed in the four gold medal events individual and team events for men and for women that were contested at these games. The Korean team won three out of the four gold medals contested. Eight Olympic records and three world records were broken at these games.

Sydney 2000 Olympic Medal

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Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Olympic Archery History - Atlanta 1996

The Atlanta Olympics were held from 19th July to 4th August in the Centenial Olympic Stadium in Atlanta, the capital city of the state of Georgia in United States in the year 1996. The stadium was constructed for the twenty-sixth Summer Games. The Atlanta Olympics was twenty-sixth Summer Games and were officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad.

The Atlanta Olympic Games were officially opened by President Bill Clinton. The athletes uttered Olympic oath led by Teresa Edwards. Judges took Olympic oath led by Hobie Billingsley. In the stadium, the Olympic Flame was lit by Muhammad Ali. In 1996 Atlanta Summer Games 10,320 competitors from 197 countries took part. There were 271 events in 26 sports and archery was also included.

The Atlanta 1996 Games marked a new milestone for the exposure of archery. Never before have so many spectators been able to watch archery live on television or in the stands as 54,680 spectators attended the competitions. The Atlanta archery coverage won the Golden Rings Award from the International Olympic Committee for the best Olympic Sports coverage.

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Olympic Archery History 1900-1992

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.

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.

Women Archery Competed First Time in the Olympics

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.

Doreen Wilbe right of John Williams

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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Archery World Championships History

International Archery Federation (FITA) is the international governing body of archery and was founded on the 4th of September, 1931 in Lwow, Poland, by seven countries France, Czech Republic, Sweden, Poland, the United States, Hungary, and Italy. FITA is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. International Archery Federation (FITA) aims were to return archery to the Olympic Games and interpreting the FITA rules and arranging for the organization of World Championships and other international competitions.

Archery World Championships History

Competitions were held in four events, an individual event for men and women and a team event for men and women from 1931 to 1993. In 1995 the Compound Bow Division was added for men and women and for men's and women's teams.

Archery Target World Championships were organized every single year until 1959 with a few exceptions, but since then they have been held every two years only.

The First Archery World Field Championships were held in 1959, but the second championship was not held until then years later. World Field Championships are now organized every two years.

Archery World Indoor Championships is a recent competition was first organized in 1991. The first World Junior Championships was also held in 1991. The Compound Division and competition in the Olympic Round format were added for the 1994 edition in Roncegno, Italy.

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Olympic - Archery Targets

Archery Targets come in a variety of shapes and form are usually made of heavy-duty foam or wood, despite the fact that the circular, static targets are the most common ones. Those rounded archery targets are composed of 10 concentric rings. Each ring has its color and their respective scoring values.

Ring archery targets are the easiest one to make. It is somewhat similar to a dartboard. The only difference is that there are no other divisions on the circles placed inside each other. The first two outer rings are white.

The score for hitting the white is one point. The next two circles are black, signifying three points for every arrow that landed on those spots. Black is followed by blue, which means 5 points. The next is red at 7 points and lastly yellow or gold, at 9 points per arrow. In some archery competition, there's a 10th ring, which is also gold. Technically, it can be referred to as the bull's eye. It is worth 10 points.

Making static ring targets is rather easy. But as advancements are implemented, there are three dimensional archery targets available in specialty stores.

These targets normally follow the figure of an animal, usually that of a deer, a bear, or a bird. These targets are very helpful to those who are not just enjoying archery shooting. It is especially for people who are applying their skills in actual animal hunting as well.

The targets that are patterned from animals are the ones not easy to make. You may be able to just stick a life-size picture of a deer on the target range. But then again, the effect of that wouldn't be as good if a 3D image was used instead.

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Archery Facts and Figures

According to Last updates about archert in March 2010. Facts and Figures of archery are given below.

Thirty two world class archery events since 2006. More than 60 countries and 600 participants at the last World Championships. Around 140 countries as Member Associations. 100,000 articles on the web per year.1,500,000 visits per year on www.archery.tv (on YouTube). 2,500,000 visits per year on www.worldarchery.org.8 million archers worldwide.More than 35 million viewers worldwide watched every minute of the archery broadcast during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. About 1 billion cumulative TV viewers per year for archery. Top Countries in Recurve Bow are Korea, China, India, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Poland, Great Britain, France, Turkey, Mexico, USA. Top Countries in Compound Bow are USA, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, El Salvador, Australia, Russia, Italy, Great Britain, France, Switzerland, India.

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Olympic - Archery Techniques

Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow. Historically archery was used in hunting and combat. Later on archery has become a precision sport. International Archery Federation (FITA) is the international governing body of archery. FITA is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Archery was introduced as a men's event in the modern Summer Games in 1900 for the first time. The thirtieth Summer Games will be held in the year 2012 in the London Olympic Stadium in London and Archery is included in the schedule.

Archery Techniques

These are the three basic archery techniques that are required for goog player. These are given below.

Archery Stance

Your stance determines the strength, consistency, and the accuracy of your shot. There are different archery stances. It would be best that you learn all of them and use the one that best fits the occasion. The Even stance is the stance following a natural position stance. It is also very easy to do. However, this stance is not advisable for shooters that have wide chests, as it lowers the area for clearance of the string. Other than the Even stance, you can also do the Open stance, Closed stance, and Oblique stance.

Drawing and Aiming Techniques

To draw your weapon and aim at your target, it is important that your fingers are relaxed. This is the very basic drawing and aiming technique that you should master. To help you with it, use the necessary accessories. An arm guard is going to be essential. The way you draw and aim at your target depends upon your skills and physical abilities as an archer. However, you should also consider the type of bow that you are using.

Release and Follow-Through Techniques

To properly release your arrow, you need to exude both relaxation and concentration. For a good follow-through, make sure that all your fingers resting on the bowstring are relaxed. Your eyes and head should be turned toward the target at all times too, following the direction and the flight of the launched arrow. Your bow arm should be extended towards your target. And lastly, your hand should grip the bow. Use the sling to help you out in this step.

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