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Archery was not a sports event in the first ancient Olympic Games in Greece. However, the games were held for over 1,000 years, so it’s entirely possible that at some time archery was an Olympic climb in the past.

Archery for men was an event for the first time in the modern athletics in 1900. The first archery event for women was in 1904. However, there was no uniformity in the rules in those early athletics and archery was dropped as an event after 1920. The planetary governing body for archery, the Federation Internationale de Tira l’Arc (FITA), was founded in 1931. It took many years before all countries acknowledged the newborn planetary rules for competition, but archery was healthy to return as an Olympic climb to the 1972 Munich Games. In 1988, team competitions were held in addition to the individualist events.

Since 1992, the event format is head-to-head competition for the top 64 athletes. There are four archery events: Men’s Individual, Women’s Individual, Men’s Team and Women’s Team. Individual competitors (men and women) shoot 72 arrows at a ‘bulls-eye’ direct from a distance of 70 meters (229 feet, 8 inches). Each shot must be prefabricated within a 40-second time limit. A perfect score would be 720. A ’sudden death’ overtime shot is prefabricated in the event of a tie. Team competitions consist of 16 3-archer teams. As in the individualist events, each bowman shoots 72 arrows are shot at a distance of 70 meters. In a bond score, each team member will shoot digit arrow. The arrow closest to the edifice of the direct determines the winner.