Archery
【Competition Venues:Yumenoshima Park Archery Field】
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Overview
Archery is a competitive sport in which archers shoot arrows at a target. The scores differ depending on each arrow point on the target. Paralympic archers compete in three classes according to the type and extent of their disability: W1 (for archers with impairment in both upper and lower limbs who compete while seated in a wheelchair), W2 (for archers with impairment in lower limbs who compete while seated in a wheelchair), and ST (for archers who compete while standing or while seated in a chair). The event is divided into three categories—recurve open, compound open, and W1 open—with men's, women's, and mixed variants of each, for a total of nine separate competitions.
Paralympic archers use two types of bow: a standard recurve bow and a compound bow that incorporates pulleys so that archers who do not have sufficient strength to pull the bow back can shoot faster and further.
History
Bows and arrows have been used since ancient times for hunting and fighting. It is believed that these tools began to be widely used for sporting purposes around the year 1600. In the 1940s, archery became recognised as a para-sport, originally serving as a form of rehabilitation for war veterans inured in World War II.
Archery has been an official sport since the first Paralympic Games in Rome in 1960.
Detail
Sports Event
Men Women
EventIndividual W1
Individual Compound
Individual RecurveIndividual W1
Individual Compound
Individual RecurveMixed Team W1
Team Compound
Team RecurveEligible impairment
Limb deficiency (impairment of upper and/or lower limb function)
(Updated on April 10, 2019)