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Archery
Timeline
1900 1904 1920 1931 1937 1939 1951 1953 1956 1961
1969 1971 1972 1982 1992
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Archery comes to the Olympics
This Picture is of Henry Richardson
He was an American archer who won
two Olympic bronze medals.
Richardson was the first archer to win medals at two
different editions of the Olympic Games as well as the
youngest medallist at the 1904 Summer Olympics at the
age of 15 years and 124 days
Archery joined the Olympic Games as a men's
sport in 1900 in Paris.
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Girls can do it too!
This Picture is of Jessie Pollock
She was a female American archer who
competed in the early twentieth century. She
won two bronze medals in Archery at the
1904 Summer Olympics in Missouri
Women archers began competing at the
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Gamesto
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1904 in St Louis.
Archery Disappeared!!
Between 1920
was not contested
and 1972, archery
at
the Olympic games
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FITA
The international governing body for
archery, the Federation Internationale
de Tira l'Arc (FITA), was founded in
1931. It took many years before all
countries accepted the new
international rules for competition
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First use of bow-sights
Millie Hill got the idea to make a sort of sight
by attaching a black-headed pin to a piece of
felt on the bow.
Bow
sights Bow
wereSights
first used
at to
a Tournament
Original
Used
look like thisin
the USA with a 'sighted' archer,
Emil Pikula, winning second place
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Aluminium arrow shafts first used
The aluminium arrow story begins in 1939
when James Easton first began to
experiment with aluminium as an arrowshaft material.
These are more modern
Two years
later, Larry
Hughes
aluminium
arrows
was the first archer to win the American
National Archery Championship while using
aluminium
arrows
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Plastifletch vanes replaced
feathers
Max Hamilton introduces "Plastiflech" vanes
Originally real feathers were used
to replace feathers
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Recurve bows were made
Bear Archery develops and sells the first
working recurve bows
Previous bows were straight-limbed longbows
like this one
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First "Pistol grip" bow handle
Hoyt Archery develops the first
"Pistol grip" bow handle
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Torque stabilizer Introduced
Stabilisers are added to the bow
to give it more stability when
aiming.
Stabilisers also balance the bow
so it will sit comfortably in the
archer's hand while drawing and
aiming
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Compound Bow
Holless Wilber Allen is granted a patent
on his invention of the Compound Bow
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Andy Rimo develops the “Flipper”
Example of a Recurve Bow Arrow Rest.
The support arm of the rest is spring
loaded and will 'flip' out of the way of
the arrow fletch.
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Archery, back at the Olympics
Munich, 1972: Fifty-two years after its last
appearance at the 1920 Games,
Archery
to the Olympics
men's
1972
sawreturns
the beginning
of thewith
modern
and women's
individual
archery
competition
at theevents.
Olympic
Reigning world champion John Williams,
Games.
The
events
began
to
use
an 18-year-old army private, wins the gold,
standardized
forms for
and
many
nations
setting
a world record
total
score
despite
competed.
once completely
missing the target.
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Cam wheels on compound
bows first appear
Previous wheels where perfectly round.
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Olympic flaming arrow
The Olympic torch, in Barcellona,
Spain is ignited using a flaming
arrow shot by Antonio Rebollo of
the Spanish Olympic Team.
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It's A Whole New Shooting Match
No longer does an archer merely pull back
on a bowstring attached to a makeshift bow
and let his often-misshapen arrows fly.
Nocking points, kisser buttons, levels,
stabilizers, contoured grips, sights and
clickers have all become standard
equipment.
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It's A Whole New Shooting Match
Laminated bows come in a rainbow of
colours and can send an arrow hurtling
downrange at 175 mph.
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It's A Whole New Shooting Match
Feathers have given way to plastic vanes
that produce truer flight.
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It's A Whole New Shooting Match
Bowstrings, once made of barbers' linen or
from sinew boiled in water and then pounded
to the proper texture, now are made of nylon.
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It's A Whole New Shooting Match
When an archer prepares for a shot, the first
thing he does is to fit his arrow on the
bowstring. But he no longer has to worry
about it slipping out of position; it will be held
there by a nocking point, a small metal or
nylon disk clamped to the string.
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It's A Whole New Shooting Match
A bubble-type level tells the archer
if his bow is true or on tilt.
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It's A Whole New Shooting Match
Helping to assure the archer that he has pulled
the arrow back properly is a little gadget
fastened to the string, a plastic button that at
full draw fits between the shooter's lips.
Kisser Button
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It's A Whole New Shooting Match
Stabilizers are steel rods on the front of the
bow that help balance it while the forward
hand cradles a form-fitted Pistol grip
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It's A Whole New Shooting Match
With his aiming eye, the archer squints
through a bowsight.
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It's A Whole New Shooting Match
When the bow is level, balanced, sighted in
and comfortably gripped and when the kisser
button is in place, there is just one more thing
to do before releasing. That is to listen for the
clicker. This fingerlike metal device on the
side of the handle clicks when the tip of the
arrow has been drawn past it.
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It's A Whole New Shooting Match
The clicker allows
the archer to
concentrate on
aiming without
having to look at his
arrow tip to be
certain he has pulled
back exactly the
right distance.
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It's A Whole New Shooting Match
With all this gear the bull's-eye
opens wider every day.
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The Modern Bow