World Archery Federation

World Archery Federation

Abbreviation	WA (formerly FITA)
Formation	4 September 1931 (1931-09-04)
Type	Federation of national associations
Headquarters	Lausanne, Switzerland
Region served	Worldwide
Membership	156 national and other associations
Official language	English [1]
President	Uğur Erdener
First Vice-president	Mario Scarzella
Affiliations	International Olympic Committee
Website	.org.worldarcherywww

The World Archery Federation (WA, also and formerly known as FITA from the French Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc) is the governing body of the sport of archery. It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is composed of 156 national federations and other archery associations, and is recognised by the International Olympic Committee.

History

FITA was founded on 4 September 1931 in Olympic Games (the sport had not been featured since 1920). FITA was finally successful in returning archery to the Olympic program in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

To celebrate the organization's 80th anniversary in July 2011, a large majority of the FITA Congress voted to change the name from FITA to the World Archery Federation or WA.^[2]

Member associations

As of August 2013, 156 national federations and other associations are members of World Archery.^[3]

Rankings

World Archery publishes world rankings for each category of outdoor competitive archery (men / women; recurve / compound; individual / team / mixed team), updated following every official eligible event.^[4]

Each archer earns a ranking score for each competition. The ranking scores are calculated through a combination of the ranking factor of the tournament (as determined by the quality of competition, the number of competitors, and how recently the competition took place) and points based on the competitor's final position in the competition. The archer's four highest ranking scores are then combined to form their 'Added Ranking Score', which forms the basis of the ranking list.^[5]

Current rankings

Current number one ranked archers

• Updated 4 August 2015

Events

Summer Olympics

Archery was first competed at the Summer Olympic Games in 1900 and, after a long hiatus from 1924, became a regular event from 1972. Team events were added in 1988. Recurve archery is currently the only discipline competed at the Olympics.

Archery is also competed at the Summer Paralympics (recurve and compound disciplines), the Youth Olympic Games (recurve only), and the World Games (Field archery only).

World Cup

The Archery World Cup is an annual event that was inaugurated in 2006. It is designed to present archery in 'spectacular' locations.^[6]

The format consists of 4 rounds competed across the world during a calendar year. The best individual and mixed team performers across these rounds are then invited to compete in the World Cup Final at the end of the year.^[7]

An indoor World Cup, competed in 3 rounds with a final during the winter season, was inaugurated in the 2010-11 season.

World Championships

FITA began holding Target World Championships in 1931. They were held every year until 1959, when the Championships became biennial events. 1959 was also the first year that FITA held the World Field Championship.

Presently, there are five principal formats of the World Archery Championships: Outdoor, Indoor, Youth, Para-Archery, and Field. Each is held every two years on different rotations. World Championships are also held every two years in 3D archery and University sport. In 2007, a ski archery World Championships was held in Moscow; this is yet to be repeated and is not included in the current rotation.^[8]

Other

Archery is an optional sport at the Universiade and the Commonwealth Games.

Current champions

The following archers are the current champions of the major World Archery Federation events:

References

External links

• History of FITA 1931-1961 by Robert Rhode
• Archery Champions by Robert Rhode
• FITA home page

National members of the World Archery Federation Disiplines Run archery Archery Asia (AAF) AFG BAN BHU CAM CHN HKG INA IND IRI IRQ JPN KAZ KGZ KOR KSA LAO LIB MAC MAS MGL MYA NEP PAK PHI PRK QAT SIN SRI THA TJK TKM TPE UZB VIE Europe (EMAU) ARM AUT AZE BEL BIH BLR BUL CRO CYP CZE DEN ESP EST FIN FRA FRO GBR GEO GER GRE HUN IRL ISL ISR ITA KOS LAT LIE LTU LUX MDA MKD MLT MNE MON NED NOR POL POR ROU RUS SLO SMR SRB SUI SVK SWE TUR UKR Africa (FAA) ALG BEN BOT CMR CAF CHD COD EGY ERI GAB GHA GUI KEN LBA MRI MAR MTN NAM NIG NGR SEN SLE SOM RSA TOG TUN UGA Oceania (OAC) ASA AUS FIJ GUM KIR New Caledonia NZL NFI PLW PNG SAM SOL Tahiti Tonga VAN Americas (WAA) ARG BER BAR BRA CAN PAN PAR PER PUR TTO URU USA VEN Pinnacle Events World Archery Championships FITA Archery World Cup Archery at the Summer Olympics