The 2015
World Archery Championships
The World Archery Championships are a series of competitions in Archery organised by the World Archery Federation (WA). The first competition held under that title took place in 1931.
Competition archery takes a wide variety of formats, but the ...
was the 48th edition of the event. It was held in
Copenhagen
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,
Denmark
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from 26 July to 2 August 2015 and was organised by
World Archery Federation
The World Archery Federation (WA, also and formerly known as FITA from the French ''Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc'') is the governing body of the sport of archery. It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is composed of 156 nationa ...
(formerly known as FITA). Qualification and elimination rounds took place at the
Sundby Idrætspark
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, with the medal matches on 1–2 August outside the
Danish Parliament
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building
Christiansborg Palace
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. The competition was preceded by the
World Archery
The World Archery Federation (WA, also and formerly known as FITA from the French ''Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc'') is the governing body of the sport of archery. It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is composed of 156 nation ...
Congress on 24–25 July.
The programme featured was the same as previous World Championships, with individual, team, and mixed team events in the
compound
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and
recurve disciplines. A record number of athletes has entered: 623 archers across the four disciplines. As well as participation, the Championships also broke public engagement and awareness records.
The competition was also the first opportunity for
recurve athletes to secure qualification for their
NOCs at the
2016 Summer Olympics
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, nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams)
, athletes = 11,238
, events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines)
, opening = 5 August 2016
, closing = 21 August 2016
, opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer
, cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...
. An Olympic Secondary Tournament was held to rank finishers for the purposes of Olympic qualification.
Schedule
All times are local (
UTC+01:00).
Medals summary
Recurve
Compound
Medals table
Participating nations
At the close of registrations, a record 96 nations had registered 623 athletes.
Nations in bold sent the maximum number of participants, with a full team in each event. In the event, several nations and archers did not use registered places. The final number of participants was 590 from 90 countries.
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References
External links
Official websiteChampionships detailsChampionships results
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World Championship
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
World Archery
The World Archery Federation (WA, also and formerly known as FITA from the French ''Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc'') is the governing body of the sport of archery. It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is composed of 156 nation ...
World Archery Championships
The World Archery Championships are a series of competitions in Archery organised by the World Archery Federation (WA). The first competition held under that title took place in 1931.
Competition archery takes a wide variety of formats, but the ...
World Archery Championships
The World Archery Championships are a series of competitions in Archery organised by the World Archery Federation (WA). The first competition held under that title took place in 1931.
Competition archery takes a wide variety of formats, but the ...
International sports competitions in Copenhagen
International archery competitions hosted by Denmark
2015
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