At the

1904 Summer Olympics The 1904 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the III Olympiad and also known as St. Louis 1904) were an international multi-sport event held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from 29 August to 3 September 1904, as part of an extended ...

in St. Louis, six

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 ...

events were contested, of which three were men's and three were women's competitions. 23 men and 6 women constituted the field. As was common in early Olympic archery, the events held in 1904 had little resemblance to the previous edition's events. The events were essentially United States national championships: formally named the 26th Grand Annual Target Meeting of the National Archery Association and, while open to international entrants, having no foreign competitors (with some archers from the Philippines entering but not competing). Team archery was introduced at these Games, as was women's archery. The medalists were the same for both men's individual events ( George Bryant taking gold, Robert Williams silver, and William Thompson bronze in both) and both women's individual events (

Matilda Howell Matilda "Lida" Scott Howell (August 28, 1859 – December 20, 1938) was an American archery, archer who competed in the early twentieth century. She won three gold medals in Archery at the 1904 Summer Olympics in Missouri in the double na ...

gold, Emma Cooke silver, Eliza Pollock bronze). Howell finished with three golds as she was a member of the only women's team to appear. In addition to the six events recognized as Olympic events by the

International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swis ...

, there were also medals awarded for the top scores at each range in the Olympic events, separate flight shooting (longest distance) events, and an " Anthropology Days" event.

Medal summary

Schedule

Participating nations

Medal table

References

External links

International Olympic Committee medal database
{{Cyrus Edwin Dallin 1904 Summer Olympics events

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