General introduction of archery
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Updated: 2004-07-29 10:26

Archery is a thrilling sport that is growing in popularity. Anyone can participate, man, woman or child. To be successful as an athlete in this sport requires years of practice and development of both mental and physical skills. Archers develop techniques to fully control their body movement, their endurance and their mental steadiness, when preparing to meet the challenge of match days.

Description

The Olympic Archery competition takes place outdoors, in four categories of events:

Individual events, men’s and women’s
Team events, men’s and women’s

Competitors shoot standing, aiming to land their arrow in the smallest (the central) circle, 12 cm in diameter, on a target face 122 cm in diameter, placed 70 m away. The target consists of ten coloured concentric circles known as ‘rings’.

An arrow in the innermost circle (the ‘bull’s eye’) is worth ten points, and an arrow in the outermost circle (the ‘outer’) counts for one. An arrow landing successfully in a ring between these two is worth from two to nine points, depending which one it is.

ATHENS 2004 Archery

The Archery competition in the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games will take place at the Panathinaiko Stadium (Kallimarmaro) . This is the Stadium where the first modern Olympic Games were held in 1896, and it is built on top of the ancient Stadium dating from 329 B.C. The competition will be held from 15 to 21 August in the following categories:

* Archery, individual events, men’s
* Archery, individual events, women’s
* Archery, team events, men’s
* Archery, team events, women’s