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.

Competition archery takes a wide variety of formats, but the title World Championships is commonly reserved for the following three events:

Outdoor World Championships in target Archery Indoor World Championships in target Archery World Championships in field Archery.

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. 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.

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 Para Archery Championships 1998 2025 (15th) 6 World Archery Youth Championships 1991 2025 (19th) 7 World University Archery Championships 1996 2016 (11th) 8 World Ski Archery Championships 1999 2017 (10th) 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.https://rulebook.worldarchery.org/PDF/Official/2019-04-01/EN-Book2.pdf

Outdoor

NumberYearLocationEvents 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 10

All-time medal table (1931–2025) Updated after the 2025 World Archery Championships.

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-Hertogenbosch13 2022 Dubai1614 2023 Plzeň17 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 Limerick20 19 2025 Winnipeg20

Field

NumberYearLocationEvents 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 Yankton28 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 1411 2024 Mokrice14

Ski Archery The eighth Ski Archery World Championships held in Moscow in Russia in 2013.

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

University NumberYearLocationEvents1 1996 Vaulx-en-Velin2 1998 Taoyuan 3 2000 Madrid4 2002 Chonburi5 2004 Madrid6 2006 Viničné7 2008 Tainan8 2010 Shenzhen9 2012 Córdoba10 2014 Legnica11 2016 Ulaanbaatar

See also Asian Archery Championships African Archery Championships European Archery Championships World Outdoor Archery Championships World Indoor Archery Championships World Field Archery Championships World 3D Archery Championships World Ski Archery Championships World Para Archery Championship World Youth Archery Championships World University Archery Championships

References

External links World Archery Federation World Archery Indoor Championship