Target Archery

A 19-year-old archer says making her Olympic debut this summer in Paris will fulfil a life ambition.

Penny Healey, from Telford, Shropshire, is one of six chosen to represent Team GB in a squad that also features Staffordshire's Conor Hall.

The French selection commission has named its recurve teams for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on 27 June, following the third stage of the Hyundai Archery World Cup in Antalya.

As host country, France has a full quota of three men and three women for the archery events this summer.

Brothers from Malta open their second archery course on the Gerlitzen.

The adventure arena on the Gerlitzen has gained another attraction. In addition to a bike park, a high ropes course and a tubing course, visitors can now also enjoy a 3D archery course. It is operated by Michael and Christoph Koller. And this is not their first course: they also offer archery in their home country of Malta.

"We are delighted to finally be able to offer our bow-and-arrow program on the Gerlitzen," say the brothers, who are motivated and want to create more leisure activities in Carinthia in the future.

There are 24 stations with numerous wild animal dummies on the Gerlitzen. The tour takes one and a half to two hours. "And there really is something for the whole family," add the two outdoor sports enthusiasts. In addition to fun, the course, which is located near the Kanzelbahn mountain station, also guarantees a breathtaking view of the Carinthian lakes.

The rising star from Lancaster, Pennsylvania looks to become the first American to win Olympic gold in archery since 1996. She could become the first American woman to claim an individual medal since 1976, when Luann Ryon won gold in Montreal.

India was the highest-ranked unqualified nation in both the recurve men’s and recurve women’s team categories, at second and eighth respectively, so will upgrade its two individual spots to a full six-athlete squad for Paris 2024.

Bryony Pitman, from Brighton, Sussex, is preparing for her second Olympic Games.

The 27-year-old first appeared at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, representing Team GB in archery.

Ms Pitman claimed two wins to finish ninth in the individual competition.

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Archery has long been celebrated for gender equality in competition. Particularly in the modern era, women have taken an equal role in competition – and increasingly in governance as well.

The sport was among the first to include a women’s event at the Olympics – in 1904 – and World Archery was the first international federation to have a female president.

The available prize money on the Hyundai Archery World Cup has been equal since the international circuit’s inception in 2006. Mixed team competition, which will make its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, sees men and women compete together.

Paralympic Spotlight: Eric Bennett

• Part 1: https://archery360.com/2024/06/18/paralympic-spotlight-eric-bennett-part-1/
• Part 2: https://archery360.com/2024/06/20/paralympic-spotlight-eric-bennett-part-2/

Andrey Tyutyun and Adel Zhexenbinova etched their names in the Kazakhstan archery history books winning their nation's first ever Hyundai World Cup compound mixed team gold medal in Antalya, Türkiye.