The 2016 World Indoor Target Archery Championships was the 13th edition of the

World Indoor Archery Championships The World Indoor Archery Championships, an international competition in archery, have been held in alternate years since 1991 (except for a three-year gap 2009–2012), each time in a different host city. There are events in adult and junior ca ...

. The event was held in

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, from 1 to 6 March 2016, and was organized by

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 ...

Events

Recurve

Senior

Junior

Compound

Senior

Junior

Medal table

Participating nations

34 nations registered 262 athletes across disciplines, 11 fewer country and 91 athletes fewer than in Nîmes in 2014.Number of Entries by Country
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References

External links

Complete Results Book
{{World championships in 2016

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, ...

Archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...

International archery competitions hosted by Turkey

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...