In the sport of archery what is the name of the top female comptetitor? Also could you provide link?
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looking to to start up a new sport and any info on the sport or the champion is greatly appreciated.
looking to to start up a new sport and any info on the sport or the champion is greatly appreciated.
targetbutt posted: 22 Nov at 4:58 am
At the moment Park Sung Hyun of Korea is perhaps the world’s best archer, both male or female for the olympic recurve. Her current world record for 70m beats the men’s 70m world record 351 to 349(out of a max possible score of 360). She even matched the compound female world record held by Jamie Van Natta of the US.
There are many videos of her on youtube. You can also go to for world records and archer info.
To answer Archerdude, I think you might’ve been misinformed about the FITA rule on longbows. I’ve shot with people in the barebow class at a regular FITA tournament, that’s out to 90m or 100 yards. Never seen anyone shoot a longbow yet though. They do limit the type of arrow that can be used in the traditional class, as it is a traditional class that means no modern equipment allowed.
On the note of wooden arrows, aluminum arrows are so cheap now adays, they’re only about $4-$7 each, how much cheaper can you go with wood arrows? The time spent on sorting out the proper set of wood arrows can probably be better spent practicing.
archerdude posted: 24 Nov at 12:44 am
2007 World Cup Qualifiers, Recurve:
2007 World Cup Qualifiers, Compound:
World Cup World Records —
Women’s Recurve (Field):
Women’s Compound (Field):
Women’s Barebow (Field):
Women’s Flight Shooting:
But the problem, as I see it anyway, is that Olympic Style archery is not everyone’s style. According to FITA (International Archery Association, the organization which sets the rules for archery in the Olympics and the World Cup), an archer’s arrows MUST be the same length, weight and colour, except for normal wear…
which almost precludes the use of wood arrows for the average archer (one with a fairly limited budget), since it is nearly impossible to get a full set of “woodies” perfectly matched in length/weight/spine — unless the archer wants to spend a lot of time and/or money going through hundreds (or thousands) of shafts just to get a matched set. Many archers prefer to use “woodies”, because when they are lost or broken — and this will happen, no matter how good you are — they are more easily replaced due to their lower cost (and except for the metal in the points and plastic vanes, they are bio-degradable - unlike aluminum and carbon-fibre arrows); a variance of 10 grains from one shaft to another is not insurmountable for a good archer. Also, Barebow, Longbow and “Instinctive Bow” (according to FITA rules, “barebow” IS “instinctive”…) classes are limited to a maximum of 33 yards distance from the target — whereas compound bows are allowed 50 yards (it is more than possible to be accurate at 70 yds with a longbow, shooting “instinctively”). And Longbows are not allowed to have sights, stabilizers or other “gadgets” on them (but recurves are…).
(Yes, I do know that wood arrows are allowed by FITA rules — but ONLY wood arows are allowed to be used with longbows. If aluminum/crabon-fibre is allowed with recurves, they should be allowed with longbows as well…since recurves and longbows are BOTH “traditional”.)