The World Archery Federation 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.
The European Wheelchair Basketball Championship, is the main wheelchair basketball competition contested biennially by national teams governed by IWBF Europe, the European zone within the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. The European Championship is also a qualifying tournament for the IWBF Wheelchair Basketball World Championships and the Paralympic Games.
Guernsey participates in its own right in the Commonwealth Games.
Gizem Girişmen is a Turkish Paralympic archer competing in the women's recurve ARW2 event.
The World Archery Championships are a series of competitions in Archery organised by the World Archery Federation (WA). The first competition held under that title took place in 1931.
The Archery World Cup is a competition, started in 2006, organized by the World Archery Federation, where the archers compete in four stages in four countries and the best eight archers of each category advance to an additional stage to contest the Archery World Cup Final. This form of competition was introduced following the success of the 2003 World Archery Championships in New York and the 2004 Summer Olympics with the intent of making the sport more popular and attractive to spectators, with the matches being held in 'spectacular' locations and the final matches being broadcast online. It has received plaudits for its innovative approach to the sport, raising its profile and reach.
2015 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. This year, some sporting events listed below are qualifying ones, for athletes, to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. From July 2015 to May 2016, the venues for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics will be tested, by hosting various events in them.
The European Archery Championships is an archery outdoor/indoor and .... championship in Europe.
Mike Schloesser is a compound archer from Netherlands. He has won three medals at the World Youth Archery Championships, competed in the Archery World Cup and in the 2013 World Archery Championships he qualified 5th in the same event. He also competed in the men's team compound and mixed team compound event for Netherlands.
Mete Gazoz is a Turkish recurve archer. He won the gold medal in the men's individual event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. He also represented Turkey at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the 2023 World Archery Championships held in Berlin, Mete Gazoz emerged victorious, claiming the prestigious Individual title. In an intense final, he triumphed over the skilled Canadian archer Eric Peters, securing his place as the first Turkish archer to achieve the esteemed recurve gold medal in a World Championship.
Turkey has qualified send athletes to the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. Sports the country qualified to compete in include 5-a-side football, archery, goalball and wheelchair basketball.
Sarah Prieels is a Belgian archer competing the women's compound events. She won the gold medal in the mixed team event at the 2021 European Archery Championships held in Antalya, Turkey.
At the 2023 European Games in Kraków, eight events of archery were contested, all in a target archery format. Five events were held with recurve bows, mirroring the five 2024 Olympic events, and three events with compound bows, which are no longer used in Olympic competition, but are used in Paralympic competition.
Ella Gibson is a British archer competing in compound events. She won the gold medal in the women's compound event at the 2022 European Indoor Archery Championships held in Laško, Slovenia. She also won the gold medal in the women's compound event at the 2022 World Games held in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
Emircan Haney is a Turkish male compound archer and part of the national team.
The 2019 European Indoor Archery Championships was the 17th edition of the European Indoor Archery Championships. The event was held in Samsun, Turkey from February 26 to March 2, 2019.
Gizem Elmaağaçlı is a Turkish compound archer. She is a member of Kayseri Büyükşehir Belediyespor and part of the national team.
Turkey competed at the 2023 European Games, in Kraków and Małopolska, Poland, from 21 June to 2 July 2023 with a total of 193 athletes, including 103 women and 90 men in 20 sports. The flag bearers during the opening ceremony were the taekwondo practitioners Nafia Kuş and Emre Kutalmış Ateşli.
The women's individual recurve competition at the 2023 European Games was held from 23 to 29 June 2023 at the Plaszowianka Archery Park in Kraków, Poland.
The 2024 European Indoor Archery Championships is the 20th edition of the European Indoor Archery Championships. The event will be held in Varaždin, Croatia from February 19 to 24, 2024. A maximum number of three (3) athletes per country can be registered into each category and divisions of the event. This Competition will be organized following the WA and WAE competition rules in divisions Recurve, Compound and Barebow with both age categories of Senior Men and Women and Under 21 Men and Women.
Turkey, Samsun