The Olympic Archery Field, Joliette was a field located in

Joliette Joliette () is a city in southwest Quebec, Canada. It is approximately northeast of Montreal, on the L'Assomption River and is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of Joliette. It is considered to be a part of the North Shore of G ...

Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...

. Approved in 1974 by the

International Archery Federation World Archery (WA, formerly ''Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc'' (FITA)) is the governing body of the sport of archery. It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is composed of 156 national federations and other archery associations, a ...

(FITA) for use, it hosted the

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

competitions for the

1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal ...

. The site is still in use today. It is run by the ''Club de Tir à l'Arc de Joliette''. The address of the site is: 1505 Boulevard Base-de-Roc,

QC.

References

1976 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 2. pp. 190–3. Venues of the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic archery venues Defunct sports venues in Canada Sports venues in Quebec Joliette 1974 establishments in Quebec {{Summer-Olympic-venue-stub