World Archery Championships

World Archery Championships
World Archery Championships
Status	Active
Genre	World Championship
Date(s)	Varying
Frequency	Annual
Country	Varying
Inaugurated	1931
Previous event	2025 Gwangju
Next event	2027 Medellín
Organised by	World Archery Federation

Last updated September 19, 2025

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.

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.^[2] 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.^[2]

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 Ski Archery Championships	1999	2017 (10th)
6	World Para Archery Championships	1998	2023 (14th)
7	World Archery Youth Championships	1991	2023 (18th)
8	World University Archery Championships	1996	2016 (11th)

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.^[3]^[4]

Outdoor

Number	Year	Location	Events
1	1931	Lwów	2
2	1932	Warsaw	2
3	1933	London	4
4	1934	Båstad	4
5	1935	Brussels	4
6	1936	Prague	4
7	1937	Paris	4
8	1938	London	4
9	1939	Oslo	4
10	1946	Stockholm	4
11	1947	Prague	4
12	1948	London	4
13	1949	Paris	4
14	1950	Copenhagen	4
15	1952	Brussels	4
16	1954	Oslo	4
17	1955	Helsinki	4
18	1957	Prague	4
19	1958	Brussels	4
20	1959	Stockholm	4
21	1961	Oslo	4
22	1963	Helsinki	4
23	1965	Västerås	4
24	1967	Amersfoort	4
25	1969	Valley Forge	4
26	1971	York	4
27	1973	Grenoble	4
28	1975	Interlaken	4
29	1977	Canberra	4
30	1979	West Berlin	4
31	1981	Punta Ala	4
32	1983	Los Angeles	4
33	1985	Seoul	4
34	1987	Adelaide	4
35	1989	Lausanne	4
36	1991	Kraków	4
37	1993	Antalya	4
38	1995	Jakarta	8
39	1997	Victoria	8
40	1999	Riom	8
41	2001	Beijing	8
42	2003	New York	8
43	2005	Madrid	8
44	2007	Leipzig	8
45	2009	Ulsan	8
46	2011	Turin	10
47	2013	Antalya	10
48	2015	Copenhagen	10
49	2017	Mexico City	10
50	2019	's-Hertogenbosch	10
51	2021	Yankton	10
52	2023	Berlin	10
53	2025	Gwangju ^[5]^[6]	10

All-time medal table (1931–2023)

Updated after the 2023 World Archery Championships.


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	66	26	27	119
2	United States	65	39	34	138
3	Sweden	19	22	23	64
4	Poland	18	16	12	46
5	Soviet Union	14	9	4	27
6	Great Britain	11	19	26	56
7	Italy	11	9	9	29
8	France	9	16	16	41
9	Denmark	7	13	9	29
10	Czechoslovakia	7	5	9	21
11	Russia	7	5	6	18
12	Finland	6	12	10	28
13	Belgium	5	9	9	23
14	Colombia	5	1	3	9
15	Chinese Taipei	4	6	7	17
16	India	3	9	3	15
17	Canada	3	3	6	12
18	China	3	2	7	12
19	Mexico	2	8	3	13
20	Germany	2	7	4	13
21	Australia	2	2	9	13
22	Netherlands	1	8	7	16
23	Turkey	1	4	3	8
24	Norway	1	4	1	6
25	West Germany	1	3	1	5
26	Ukraine	1	2	4	7
27	Hungary	1	1	1	3
28	Iran	1	1	0	2
29	Austria	1	0	1	2
29	Slovenia	1	0	1	2
31	Chile	1	0	0	1
	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
	Moldova	1	0	0	1
34	Japan	0	5	6	11
35	South Africa	0	3	5	8
36	Brazil	0	1	1	2
36	North Korea	0	1	1	2
38	Belarus	0	1	0	1
	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Georgia	0	1	0	1
	Malaysia	0	1	0	1
	Russian Archery Federation	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
44	Bangladesh	0	0	1	1
	El Salvador	0	0	1	1
	Estonia	0	0	1	1
	Indonesia	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Luxembourg	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela	0	0	1	1
Totals (51 entries)		281	277	276	834

Indoor

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

Para

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

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

Youth

Number	Year	Location	Events
1	1991	Sandefjord
2	1993	Moliets-et-Maa
3	1994	Roncegno
4	1996	Chula Vista
5	1998	Sunne
6	2000	Belfort
7	2002	Nymburk
8	2004	Lilleshall
9	2006	Mérida
10	2008	Antalya
11	2009	Ogden
12	2011	Legnica
13	2013	Wuxi	20
14	2015	Yankton	20
15	2017	Rosario	20
16	2019	Madrid	20
17	2021	Wrocław	20
18	2023	Limerick	20
19	2025	Winnipeg ^[7]	20

Field

Number	Year	Location
1	1969	Valley Forge
2	1971	Cardiff
3	1972	Gorizia
4	1974	Zagreb
5	1976	Mölndal
6	1978	Geneva
7	1980	Palmerston North
8	1982	Kingsclere
9	1984	Hyvinkää
10	1986	Radstadt
11	1988	Bolzano
12	1990	Loen
13	1992	Margraten
14	1994	Vertus
15	1996	Kranjska Gora
16	1998	Obergurgl
17	2000	Cortina
18	2002	Canberra
19	2004	Plitvice
20	2006	Gothenburg
21	2008	Llwynypia
22	2010	Visegrád
23	2012	Val d'Isère
24	2014	Zagreb
25	2016	Dublin
26	2018	Cortina
27	2021	Yankton
28	2024	Lac La Biche

3D

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

Ski Archery

The eighth Ski Archery World Championships held in Moscow in Russia in 2013.^[8]

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

University

Number	Year	Location
1	1996	Vaulx-en-Velin
2	1998	Taoyuan
3	2000	Madrid
4	2002	Chonburi
5	2004	Madrid
6	2006	Viničné
7	2008	Tainan
8	2010	Shenzhen
9	2012	Córdoba
10	2014	Legnica
11	2016	Ulaanbaatar

References

↑ "World Championships". WorldArchery.org. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
1 2 "Search". World Archery. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
↑ https://rulebook.worldarchery.org/PDF/Official/2019-04-01/EN-Book2.pdf Archived 14 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine
↑ "Rulebook | World Archery".
↑ "광주, 2025년 세계양궁선수권대회 개최지로 선정".
↑ "Korea to host World Archery Championships in 2025". 5 December 2021.
↑ "Korea to host World Archery Championships in 2025". 5 December 2021.
↑ "Ski Archery World Championships starting today in Moscow". Worldarchery/org. 30 March 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2017.

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[1] "World Championships". WorldArchery.org. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2013.

[worldarchery1-2] 1 2 "Search". World Archery. Retrieved 23 July 2017.

[3] ttps://rulebook.worldarchery.org/PDF/Official/2019-04-01/EN-Book2.pdf Archived 14 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine

[4] "Rulebook | World Archery".

[5] "광주, 2025년 세계양궁선수권대회 개최지로 선정".

[6] "Korea to host World Archery Championships in 2025". 5 December 2021.

[7] "Korea to host World Archery Championships in 2025". 5 December 2021.

[8] "Ski Archery World Championships starting today in Moscow". Worldarchery/org. 30 March 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2017.

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