World Archery

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Recorded May 13, 2026

Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc (FITA) was founded on 4 September 1931 in Lwow, Poland (today Lviv, Ukraine). Foundational federation milestone that established the body owning all subsequent international archery rule-making — bow and arrow specifications, target distances, scoring, ranking-round procedures, equipment regulations, and the entire FITA/World Archery competition calendar. Every modern WA rule descends from the rule-making mandate established at this founding congress.

Recorded May 9, 2026

FITA successfully returned archery to the Olympic program at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich after a 52-year absence — the last Olympic archery competition before this had been at the 1920 Antwerp Games. The Olympic re-introduction validated FITA's modernization of competition rules (target distances, scoring, equipment specifications) and established the FITA Round (the four-distance individual format that defined Olympic archery for decades). The 1972 acceptance is the foundational Olympic milestone for modern FITA-governed archery and remains the conceptual ancestor of every subsequent Olympic archery format.

Recorded May 9, 2026

FITA added team events to the international competitive program in 1988, expanding the elite competition portfolio beyond individual recurve and compound events. The 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics also introduced team events to Olympic archery, mirroring the FITA addition and giving national federations a path to medal contention through team depth rather than just elite individual performance. From 1988 onward team events formed part of the World Archery and Olympic programmes.

Recorded May 9, 2026

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Recorded Mar 22, 2026