Eight Olympic spots were up for grabs in the women's individual recurve event at the Final Olympic Qualifier in Antalya, Turkiye and seven countries -- Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine-- gained their first women's quotas for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with the final spot to be decided via world ranking.

The Chinese women's recurve team beat the top-seeded Koreans for the second time in a row, taking the gold at the Hyundai Archery World Cup 2024 in Yecheon, Republic of Korea. China and Korea had played out an exciting gold medal match in the season opener in Shanghai last month with the former pulling ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games champions.

Elisabeth Straka, Reena Parnat, and Elif Berra Gokkir clinched the top three spots on the podium in the European qualifier held in Essen, Germany, securing individual quota places for Austria, Estonia, and Turkey in the recurve women's category for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

China emerged victorious against a revamped women's recurve team from South Korea at the inaugural stage of the Archery World Cup in Shanghai.

Nicholas D'Amour has become the first archer to qualify for the Olympic Games. He did so last Tuesday. He won the semi-finals in Medellin last Tuesday to secure his place in the continental qualifiers. In Tokyo 2020 he won a place at the 2020 Olympic Games through universal qualification.

The New Zealand Sports Tribunal has banned an archer from all sport for two years after he tested positive for a banned beta blocker at the North Island Senior Target Archery Championships.

To support amateur archers on their way to elite status, the Canadian Archery Foundation announces its first online auction. The goal is to ensure that non-Olympic athletes have the resources to compete at the highest level.

World Archery has announced the shortlists for the 2023 Athlete of the Year Awards for nine of the prizes, including the six category trophies - recurve men, recurve women, compound men, compound women, Para men and Para women - which will be open for public voting from 10 November to 10 December 2023.

Dhiraj Bommadevara had an outstanding performance in the Asian Continental Qualifier Tournament and, by reaching the final, secured India's first Olympic spot in recurve archery for Paris 2024. The competition took place in Bangkok, Thailand, and maintained a consistent performance from the early qualifying rounds.

In anticipation of the 2027 World Archery Championships, World Archery this week completed an on-site evaluation of Nyborg, Denmark's potential as the host city.

Dutchmen Mike Schloesser and Steve Wijler triumphed in the men's events at the Archery Indoor World Series opener in Lausanne while Italy's Paola Natale and Denisa Barankova of Slovakia claimed the women's titles.

Two-time World Championships medallist Marcus D'Almeida ended the Archery World Cup final in style by clinching the individual recurve title in Hermosillo.

A dedicated centre for archery at the Lilleshall National Sports Centre in the English midlands is set to open before the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics.

Teenager Casey Kaufhold of the United States has defeated European champion Lisa Barbelin of France to win her first World Cup title in Paris which is serving as an Olympic test event.

This year's women's recurve stage winners Penny Healey and Lim Si-hyeon were eliminated before the semi-finals of the Archery World Cup in Paris, serving as a test event for next year's Olympic Games.