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World Archery Championships

Series of international sports competitions

Summary

Series of international sports competitions

Field	Value
name	World Archery Championships
image	World Archery Championships.png
status	Active
genre	World Championship
date	Varying
frequency	Annual
country	Varying
first
organised	World Archery Federation
prev	2025 Gwangju
next	2027 Medellín

The World Archery Championships are a series of competitions in Archery organised by the World Archery Federation. The first competition held under that title took place in 1931.

Competition archery takes a wide variety of formats, but the title World Championships is commonly reserved for the following three events:

Outdoor World Championships in target Archery
Indoor World Championships in target Archery
World Championships in field Archery.

Of these, the Outdoor World Championships in target Archery is most commonly referred to as simply the 'World Archery Championships', and the winners most commonly referred to as simply "world champions". Events in those outdoor championships are held involving fixed targets at set distances, using a variety of bows, the recurve bow from 1931 and the compound bow since 1995.

Although less widely recognised, World Championship events are also held in Youth archery (outdoor only - field and indoor youth events are held alongside the senior championships), Para-archery, University archery and 3D archery. A ski archery World Championships was last held in 2007, but is not part of the current rotation. Following the accession of archery to permanent sports at the Summer Universiade, the university world championships also ceased to be part of the World Archery Championships rotation in 2014.

World Archery Championships Events

Number	Events	First	Last
1	World Archery Championships	1931	2025 (53rd)
2	World Indoor Archery Championships	1991	2018 (14th)
3	World Field Archery Championships	1969	2024 (28th)
4	World 3D Archery Championships	2003	2024 (11th)
5	World Para Archery Championships	1998	2025 (15th)
6	World Archery Youth Championships	1991	2025 (19th)
7	World University Archery Championships	1996	2016 (11th)
8	World Ski Archery Championships	1999	2017 (10th)

And for the divisions as defined in their respective chapters:

World Archery Flight Championships;
World Archery Ski Championships;
World Archery Run Championships.

Despite the above provision, a World Championship does not have to be awarded if the executive board determines it is not appropriate.

Outdoor

Number	Year	Location	Events
1	1931	POL Lwów	2
2	1932	POL Warsaw	2
3	1933	GBR London	4
4	1934	SWE Båstad	4
5	1935	BEL Brussels	4
6	1936	TCH Prague	4
7	1937	FRA Paris	4
8	1938	GBR London	4
9	1939	NOR Oslo	4
10	1946	SWE Stockholm	4
11	1947	TCH Prague	4
12	1948	GBR London	4
13	1949	FRA Paris	4
14	1950	DEN Copenhagen	4
15	1952	BEL Brussels	4
16	1954	NOR Oslo	4
17	1955	FIN Helsinki	4
18	1957	TCH Prague	4
19	1958	BEL Brussels	4
20	1959	SWE Stockholm	4
21	1961	NOR Oslo	4
22	1963	FIN Helsinki	4
23	1965	SWE Västerås	4
24	1967	NED Amersfoort	4
25	1969	USA Valley Forge	4
26	1971	GBR York	4
27	1973	FRA Grenoble	4
28	1975	SUI Interlaken	4
29	1977	AUS Canberra	4
30	1979	FRG West Berlin	4
31	1981	ITA Punta Ala	4
32	1983	USA Los Angeles	4
33	1985	KOR Seoul	4
34	1987	AUS Adelaide	4
35	1989	SUI Lausanne	4
36	1991	POL Kraków	4
37	1993	TUR Antalya	4
38	1995	IDN Jakarta	8
39	1997	CAN Victoria	8
40	1999	FRA Riom	8
41	2001	CHN Beijing	8
42	2003	USA New York	8
43	2005	ESP Madrid	8
44	2007	GER Leipzig	8
45	2009	KOR Ulsan	8
46	2011	ITA Turin	10
47	2013	TUR Antalya	10
48	2015	DEN Copenhagen	10
49	2017	MEX Mexico City	10
50	2019	NED 's-Hertogenbosch	10
51	2021	USA Yankton	10
52	2023	GER Berlin	10
53	2025	KOR Gwangju	10

All-time medal table (1931–2025)

Updated after the 2025 World Archery Championships.

Indoor

Main article: World Indoor Archery Championships

Number	Year	Location	Events
1	1991	FIN Oulu	4
2	1993	FRA Perpignan	4
3	1995	UK Birmingham	8
4	1997	TUR Istanbul	8
5	1999	CUB Havana	8
6	2001	ITA Florence	8
7	2003	FRA Nîmes	8
8	2005	DEN Aalborg	8
9	2007	TUR İzmir	16
10	2009	POL Rzeszów	16
11	2012	USA Las Vegas	16
12	2014	FRA Nîmes	16
13	2016	TUR Ankara	16
14	2018	USA Yankton	16

Para

Main article: World Para Archery Championship

Number	Year	Location	Events
1	1998	GBR Stoke Mandeville
2	1999	NZL Christchurch
3	2001	CZE Nymburk
4	2003	ESP Madrid
5	2005	ITA Massa Carrara
6	2007	KOR Cheongju
7	2009	CZE Nymburk
8	2011	ITA Turin
9	2013	THA Bangkok
10	2015	GER Donaueschingen
11	2017	CHN Beijing
12	2019	NED 's-Hertogenbosch
13	2022	UAE Dubai	16
14	2023	CZE Plzeň	17
15	2025	KOR Gwangju

https://www.ianseo.net/Details.php?toId=818 - 2015
http://ianseo.net/Details.php?toId=2040 - 2017

Youth

Main article: World Youth Archery Championships

Number	Year	Location	Events
1	1991	NOR Sandefjord
2	1993	FRA Moliets-et-Maa
3	1994	ITA Roncegno
4	1996	USA Chula Vista
5	1998	SWE Sunne
6	2000	FRA Belfort
7	2002	CZE Nymburk
8	2004	ENG Lilleshall
9	2006	MEX Mérida
10	2008	TUR Antalya
11	2009	USA Ogden
12	2011	POL Legnica
13	2013	CHN Wuxi	20
14	2015	USA Yankton	20
15	2017	ARG Rosario	20
16	2019	ESP Madrid	20
17	2021	POL Wrocław	20
18	2023	IRL Limerick	20
19	2025	CAN Winnipeg	20

Field

Main article: World Field Archery Championships

Number	Year	Location
1	1969	USA Valley Forge
2	1971	GBR Cardiff
3	1972	ITA Gorizia
4	1974	YUG Zagreb
5	1976	SWE Mölndal
6	1978	SUI Geneva
7	1980	NZL Palmerston North
8	1982	GBR Kingsclere
9	1984	FIN Hyvinkää
10	1986	AUT Radstadt
11	1988	ITA Bolzano
12	1990	NOR Loen
13	1992	NED Margraten
14	1994	FRA Vertus
15	1996	SLO Kranjska Gora
16	1998	AUT Obergurgl
17	2000	ITA Cortina
18	2002	AUS Canberra
19	2004	CRO Plitvice
20	2006	SWE Gothenburg
21	2008	GBR Llwynypia
22	2010	HUN Visegrád
23	2012	FRA Val d'Isère
24	2014	CRO Zagreb
25	2016	IRL Dublin
26	2018	ITA Cortina
27	2021	USA Yankton
28	2024	CAN Lac La Biche

3D

Main article: World 3D Archery Championships

Number	Year	Location	Events
1	2003	FRA Sully-sur-Loire	8
2	2005	ITA Genoa	8
3	2007	HUN Sopron	10
4	2009	ITA Latina	10
5	2011	AUT Donnersbach	10
6	2013	ITA Sassari	10
7	2015	ITA Terni	10
8	2017	FRA Avignon	10
9	2019	CAN Lac la Biche	10
10	2022	ITA Terni	14
11	2024	SLO Mokrice	14

Ski Archery

The eighth Ski Archery World Championships held in Moscow in Russia in 2013.

Number	Year	Location
1	1999	FRA -
2	2000	POL -
3	2001	ITA -
4	2005
5	2007
6	2009
7	2011
8	2013	RUS Moscow
9	2015
10	2017

University

Number	Year	Location	Events
1	1996	FRA Vaulx-en-Velin
2	1998	[[File:Flag of Chinese Taipei for Universiade.svg	22px]] Taoyuan
3	2000	ESP Madrid
4	2002	THA Chonburi
5	2004	ESP Madrid
6	2006	SVK Viničné
7	2008	[[File:Flag of Chinese Taipei for Universiade.svg	22px]] Tainan
8	2010	CHN Shenzhen
9	2012	ESP Córdoba
10	2014	POL Legnica
11	2016	MGL Ulaanbaatar

References

"World Championships".
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"Rulebook | World Archery".
"광주, 2025년 세계양궁선수권대회 개최지로 선정".
(5 December 2021). "Korea to host World Archery Championships in 2025".
(5 December 2021). "Korea to host World Archery Championships in 2025".
(30 March 2015). "Ski Archery World Championships starting today in Moscow".

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