Para Archery

Para-archery is the variation of the sports archery for the athletes with physical impairment. The sport was first held at Stoke Mandeville Hospital for recovering veterans in the year 1947. Over the years the sport gained popularity among the athletes of different nations and thus it became one of the Paralympics Events. Para-archery was first displayed at the para games in Rome, 1960. Since 2009, World Archery is the official governing body of the sport that organizes international games and is also responsible for spreading the sport all around the globe. Prior to this International Para Archery was organized by the International Paralympics-Committee which looked after the rules and regulations for the sport.
The goal of the sport is to shoot arrows at the target accurately with a diameter of 122cm marked with 10 concentric rings.

General History

Archery was presented in 1946 as a type of recovery process for war veterans with spinal wounds from World War II.

 

The primary archery rivalry for those with physical disabilities was held at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1948 in Great Britain. Amid those days, the rounds shot were the St Nicholas Round for rookies and novices (48 arrows from 36.6m away, and 36 arrows from 27.4m away) and the Albion Round for professional archers (36 arrows from 73.2m, 54.9m and 45.7m away).

 

Para-Archery was one of the eight games at the Rome 1960 Paralympic Games. Specialists surveyed competitors and gave them a class, which they at that point took part in.

 

The 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona, Spain, included competitors with hindrances/disabilities past spinal injuries.

 

The 1998 FITA (French International de Tir à l'Arc) World Championships directed the game's exclusive classification system framework, which is utilised today. The game developed with world and territorial Championships as single sport events, and has kept on staying in the Paralympic program.

 

On 1 January 2009, para-archery began the move from the International Paralympic Committee to FITA, and the procedure was finished at the FITA Congress that year. This converted para-archery as a recovery device in 1946 to a thoroughly sport specific organisation today. World Archery is the game's administering body.