| Archery at the 2018 South American Games | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Venue | Complejo Aurora |
| Dates | 2–6 June |
| Nations | 9 |
There were 10 archery events at the 2018 South American Games in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Four for men and women and two mixes. The events were held between June 2 and 6 at the Complejo Aurora.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's individual |  Daniel Pineda (COL) |  Ricardo Soto (CHI) | Estiven Ramirez (COL) |
| Women's individual |  Graziela dos Santos (BRA) | Ana Clara Machado (BRA) |  Mayra Mendez (VEN) |
| Men's team | Colombia Daniel Pineda Estiven Ramirez Andrés Pila | Brazil Edson Kim Gustavo dos Santos Lugui da Cruz |  Argentina Ignacio Ariel Kevin Sabado Mario Jajarabilla |
| Women's team | Brazil Ana Clara Machado Graziela dos Santos Ana Luiza Caetano | Colombia Ana Rendón Maira Sepúlveda Valentina Contreras | Venezuela Mayra Mendez Verona Villegas Yerubi Suarez |
| Mixed team | Argentina Florencia Leithold Kevin Sabado | Venezuela Mayra Mendez Elias Malave | Colombia Ana Rendón Daniel Pineda |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's individual | Camilo Cardona (COL) | Daniel Muñoz (COL) | Alejandro Martín (CHI) |
| Women's individual | Sara López (COL) | Nora Valdez (COL) | Ana Mendoza (VEN) |
| Men's team | Colombia Daniel Muñoz Camilo Cardona Sebastián Arenas | Venezuela Maico Gómez Eduardo González Nelson Torres | Argentina Walter Sabado Nelson Salinas Pablo Maio |
| Women's team | Colombia Sara López Alejandra Usquiano Nora Valdez | Venezuela Ana Mendoza Olga Bosch Luzmary Guedez | Argentina Melissa Regnasco María González Cynthia Mitchell |
| Mixed team | Colombia Sara López Camilo Cardona | Venezuela Luzmary Guedez Nelson Torres | Chile Fernanda Lagos Alejandro Martin |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colombia (COL) | 7 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| 2 | Brazil (BRA) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Argentina (ARG) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | Venezuela (VEN) | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 5 | Chile (CHI) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Totals (5 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | |
Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, Greece with ranking rounds on 12 August and regular competition held from 15 August to 21 August. One hundred twenty-eight archers from forty-three nations competed in the four gold medal events—individual and team events for men and for women—that were contested at these games.
Archery had its debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics and has been contested in 17 Olympiads. 105 nations have competed in the Olympic archery events, with France appearing the most often at 15 times. The most noticeable trend has been the excellence of South Korean archers, who have won 27 out of 39 gold medals in events since 1984. It is governed by the World Archery Federation. Recurve archery is the only discipline of archery featured at the Olympic Games. Archery is also an event at the Summer Paralympics.
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.
Bhutan sent a delegation to compete at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States from 19 July to 4 August 1996. This was the Kingdom's fourth appearance at a Summer Olympic Games. The delegation to Atlanta consisted of two archers, Jubzhang Jubzhang and Ugyen Ugyen. Neither advanced past the round of 64 in their events, though Jubzhang pushed his match to a shootout.
Brady Ellison is an American archer who competes in recurve archery. He holds the record for the longest continuous period as the world number-one-ranked men's recurve archer, from August 2011 to April 2013. He earned his nickname "The Prospector" during the 2015 world championships due to his proclivity for 'finding gold'.
Aída Nabila Román Arroyo is a Mexican archer. A three-time Olympian, she won silver medal in the women's individual event at the 2012 Summer Olympics and was the women's World Indoor Archery Champion in 2014. She has additionally achieved medal finishes at the World Archery Championships, Archery World Cup, and Pan American Games.
Mariana Avitia Martínez is a Mexican recurve archer. She was the first Mexican to win an Olympic medal in archery after taking bronze in the women's individual event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is also the youngest Mexican athlete to compete in two Olympic Games, contesting both the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2010 Summer Youth Olympics by the age of seventeen.
The women's individual archery event at the 2012 Olympic Games was held from 27 July to 2 August 2012 at Lord's Cricket Ground in London in the United Kingdom. The event was one of four which comprised the 2012 Olympic archery programme of sports and was the eleventh time the women's individual competition was contested as an Olympic event. Forty different nations qualified for the competition, sending a total of sixty-four archers to compete. The defending Olympic champion from 2008 was Zhang Juanjuan of China, who did not compete following her retirement in 2010.
The archery events at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place in Yumenoshima Park. Five events were planned with a mixed team event staged for the first time.
Chang Hye-jin is a South Korean former recurve archer. A two-time Olympic gold medalist, Chang was the Olympic champion in both the women's individual and women's team events at 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She is also a former number one-ranked recurve archer, having headed the World Archery Rankings between 2017 and 2019.
Archery at the 2016 Summer Paralympics was held between 10 and 17 September 2016 at the Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí in the Maracana zone of Rio de Janeiro, and consisted of nine events. The make up of those events changed substantially from the 2012 games, and consisted of three men's events, three women's events and three events for mixed gender teams. Men, women and mixed teams each competed in two events for compound bow, one for wheelchair athletes, the other open, and an open event for recurve bow, the bow used for all Olympic events.
Choi Mi-sun is a South Korean recurve archer. She won gold medal in the women's team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Archery at the Pacific Games was first contested at the 1971 games at Papeete. Archery was made a core sport in 2021, and is thus required to be included at every subsequent edition of the Pacific Games. It has also been included in the Pacific Mini Games, firstly at Norfolk Island in 2001 and then Port Vila in 2017.
There are 128 qualifying places available for archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics: 64 for men and 64 for women. The qualification standards were released by World Archery in March 2018. The 2020 Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Archery competitions at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru were held between August 7 and 11, 2019 at the Archery field in the Villa María del Triunfo cluster.
Archery at the 2020 Summer Paralympics was held at Dream Island Archery Park in Tokyo Bay Zone It consisted of 9 events. It was expected that there would be 140 archer slots in the qualifying rounds to the countdown of the Games.
The men's individual archery event was one of five archery events at the 2020 Summer Olympics. It was held at Yumenoshima Park. There were 64 competitors from 40 nations, with nations having either 1 or 3 archers.
The girls' individual archery event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics was held from 12 to 16 October 2018 at the Parque Sarmiento in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of three recurve archery events which comprised the archery programme, it was the third time the girls' individual discipline had been contested at Summer Youth Olympics. Thirty-two archers from thirty-two countries entered the competition, which was open to female archers born between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2003. The defending champion was China's Li Jiaman, who was unable to defend her title due to the age limitations imposed on the event.
Paige Pearce is an American compound archer. She won two medals at the 2019 World Archery Championships held in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands: the silver medal in the women's individual compound event and also the silver medal in the women's team compound event.
Kang Chae-young is a South Korean archer competing in women's recurve events. She has won numerous medals in archery competitions.