Paris 2024: schedule of events, history, athletes, archery at the Olympic Games

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are an opportunity for the French to discover or take a closer look at more or less traditional sports. We take a look at archery: its history, where to practice it, our best athletes and also the program of events!

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games is the most eagerly awaited sporting event in France, and an opportunity to expand your knowledge of many of the sports on the bill. Each month, Sortir à Paris takes a closer look at some of the lesser-known disciplines, leading up to the competition, which begins in July 2024. Today, we're taking a closer look at archery, an ancient sport that has been part of many myths since the dawn of time.

A brief history

The principle of archery is to aimat a 122 cmtarget 70meters away. The aim is toplace thearrows asclose as possible to 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.

Archery at the 2024 Olympic Games

Esplanade des Invalides, 7th arrondissement
individual and team
July 25 to August 4
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 40gold medals atstake.

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.

Where to practice archery in Ile-de-France

Where to go archery in Paris and the Ile-de-France region?
If you'd like to discover archery, or take up the sport again, the capital and the Ile-de-France region are full of archery companies throughout the region. So, why not try out this sport, which is accessible to all and requires reflection, relaxation and precision? [Read more]