Paris 2024: programme of events, history, archery at the Olympic and Paralympic Games

The Paris 2024 Games are an opportunity for the French to discover or take a closer interest in more or less traditional sports. And among them, archery! One takes a look at its history, where to practice it, our best athletes, and the program of events, in both Olympic and Paralympic versions!

The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games are THE most eagerly awaited sporting event in France, and an opportunity to expand your knowledge of many of the sports on show, whether they're often on TV or absent altogether! We take a closer look at archery, an ancient sport that has been part of many myths since the dawn of time, and which takes place in front of the magnificent dome of the Invalides!

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A brief history

The principle of archery is toaim at a 122 cmtarget 70meters away. The aim is toplace thearrows asclose as possibleto the center to score points. Archery is one of the oldest sports in the history of mankind, developed as an instrument of hunting and warfare by the Hittites and Assyrians as early as 1200 BC. During the Renaissance,manyEuropean countries organizedarcherytournaments toencouragetheircitizens to acquiremilitary skills. It wasn't until 1931 that an international federation, World Archery, came into being.

In the handisport version, male and female athletes with physical disabilities can compete standing up or in a wheelchair. The W1category is reserved for athletes who shoot from a wheelchair and whose arms show a loss of muscle strength, coordination or range of motion. In the open category, archers can shoot in a wheelchair, standing and leaning on a stool, with a high limit of activity in their trunk and legs.

In the classification round, archers shoot 72 arrows in twelve six-arrow flights, at 50 or 70m, for 4 minutes per flight. At the end of this round, archers are placed in a table and compete in pairs, in direct elimination, over five flights of three arrows.

Archery at the 2024 Olympic Games

Esplanade des Invalides, 7th arrondissement
individual and team events
July 25 to August 4 - August 29 to September 5
8,000 places

In the history of the Olympic Games

Archerymade its Olympicdebutat the 1900 Paris Games.Competed in 1904, 1908 and 1920, the discipline wassidelined for overfifty years, before making acomeback at the 1972 MunichGames. Archery hasremained on theOlympic program eversince.Koreadominates theOlympicarcheryrecord, winning 23 of the 40goldmedals atstake.

Para archery has been following in the footsteps of Paralympic history since its inception in Rome in 1960. Like many other Paralympic sports, it was initially used as a rehabilitation activity. Its competitive interest materialized with the birth of a high-level competitive discipline, as presented today at the Paralympic Games.

Our French athletes

French archersinclude1992 Olympic champion Sébastien Flute, the women's team of 2008 bronze medallists Sophie Dodémont, Virginie Arnold and Bérengère Schuh , and 2016 Olympic runner-up Jean-Charles Valladont.

For Paris 2024, 128 athletes will be selected, from July 28, 2023 to June 28, 2024. Franceshould be able to count on Lisa Barbelin, 2021 European champion, Jean-Charles Valladont and Thomas Chirault.

Among the 140 athletes taking part in the Paralympic Games, France should be able to count on Guillaume Toucoullet, world number two and world record-holder with 665 points,Julie Rigault Chupin in open compound archery, Aziza Benhami, recently selected for the French team, and Damien Letulle, who took part in the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, before an accident put an end to his career, and who will try again in the para version in Paris!

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