Archery

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Archery
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Timeline

• 1900 1904 1920 1931 1937 1939 1951 1953
  1956 1961
• 1969 1971 1972 1982 1992
• Now

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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 Back to timeline

• Archery joined the Olympic Games as a men's
• sport in 1900 in Paris.

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Girls can do it too!

• Women archers began competing at the
• Olympic Games in 1904 in St Louis.

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 Back to timeline
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Archery Disappeared!!

• Between 1920 and 1972, archery
• was not contested 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 were first used at a Tournament in the
  USA with a 'sighted' archer,
• Emil Pikula, winning second place

Original Bow Sights Used to look like this Back
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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 arrow-
• shaft material.
• Two years later, Larry Hughes
• was the first archer to win the American
• National Archery Championship while using
• aluminium arrows

These are more modern aluminium arrows Back to
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Plastifletch vanes replaced feathers

• Max Hamilton introduces "Plastiflech" vanes
• to replace feathers

Originally real feathers were used Back to
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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 Back to timeline
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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. Back to
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Archery, back at the Olympics
Munich, 1972 Fifty-two years after its last
appearance at the 1920 Games,
Archery returns to the Olympics with men's and
women's individual events.
Reigning world champion John Williams, an
18-year-old army private, wins the gold, setting
a world record for total score despite once
completely missing the target. Back to timeline

• 1972 saw the beginning of the modern archery
  competition at the Olympic Games. The events
  began to use standardized forms and many nations
  competed.

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Cam wheels on compound bows first appear
Previous wheels where perfectly round. Back
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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. Back to
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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