On the weekend of 18-19 September 2010, Edinburgh staged the (FITA) Archery World Cup Final, the most prestigious event in the sport’s annual calendar [second only to the World Championships]. Edinburghwas the first UK city to host the Archery World Cup Final, the biggest, most important archery competition ever to be seen in the UK.
The Archery World Cup Final 2010 was the culmination of four World Cup qualifying events when the best thirty-two archers in the World (top 16 men and 16 women) bring the skill and tension of knockout archery matches (two competitors going head to head) into the very heart of Scotland’s capital city for two days of exciting competition.
For more information on the Archery World Cup Final go to - http://www.archeryedinburgh.co.uk/ (Please note that this website will not be operational until January 2010 or:
FITA (international Archery Federation)- http://www.archery.org/
Archery GB - http://www.gnas.org/
Scottish Archery -http://www.scottisharchery.org.uk/
The Archery World Cup currently consists of four qualifying (elimination) stages held in spectacular venues around the world all culminating in a grand World Cup Final where the top thirty two archers compete over two days.
Archery has been a permanent Olympic sport since the 1972 Olympic Games and FITA has held the World Championships since 1931. The Archery World Cup Final always takes place in an iconic venue - previous host venues have included the
Mayapan Pyramids in Mexico, Furj Al Arab in Dubai and City Hall Square in Copenhagen.
Bow types / archery disciplines
A Recurve bow,the Olympic discipline, looks much like a traditional bow except at the very ends the tips curve forward. Instead of looking like a perfect, very wide, shallow “D” it has little “S” type “recurves” at the tips. These tips transfer a little more power to the stored energy in the bow limbs.
A Compound bow is designed to reduce the force required to hold the string at full draw and a great benefit when holding an arrow, waiting for just that perfect shot. It has a series of off-round pulleys or cams at the ends of the bow limbs that stores energy in the string itself as well as the limbs. The cam or cams (in a double cam) create far morr power then the same length limbs in a recurve bow. This system also gives the archer “let-off” the maximum pull.
Some compounds have as much as an 80% let-off. That means that if the bow is set at 50lb draw, it takes you 50lbs of strength to pull the bow string back to a point (about halfway) the cams kick in and at full draw it takes 10lbs (80% reduction of draw) of pull to hold the string back.
This a great benefit when holding an arrow, waiting for just that perfect shot
The Competition
In both disciplines archers shoot at a target at 70m in a Knockout format - two archers going head to head
For each match, there are 12 arrows per archer
The archer shoots 4 sets of 3 arrows, alternately with a maximum of 30 seconds per arrow allowed
The archer with the highest score goes to next round
In the event of a tie, there is a one arrow tie-breaker
Partners of the ARCHERY WORLD CUP FINAL 2010 include City of Edinburgh Council, EventScotland, UK Sport, Archery GB and The Scottish Archery Association
