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Archery - World Indoor Championships
Indoor archery is a variant of archery which is similar to the target archery. There are circular targets that have to be shot from a short distance of 18 meters. The participants in the indoor archery include recurve, compound, and barebow archers. Till now 14 competitions of the indoor archery world championships have been held from 1991 to 2018. Now it has been removed for the promotion of the indoor Archery World Series. All the archers can participate in this competition.
Targets in the Indoor Archery
The target is smaller than the traditional variant of archery. The target is of five colors and is set at 18 meters. The diameter of the target is 40 cm. There are three separate stops which archers have to see before shooting. These spots prevent the damaging of arrows.
Recurve Archers
The target that recurve archers have to shoot is of 40 cm in diameter. It consists of ten rings whose diameter is 4 cm.
Compound Archers
The target for the compound archers has ten rings whose diameter is 2 cm.
Barebow Archers
The target for the barebow archers is a single spot target face which is of full size and consists of 10 rings having a diameter of 4 cm. The diameter of the target is 40 cm.
Format of Indoor Archery Competition
Indoor archery competitions have only individual events and has two phases which are discussed here.
Qualification phase
This is a phase in which each archer has to shoot 60 arrows and ranks are given to them on the basis of points that they have scored. Maximum number of archers are disqualified in this phase.
Matchplay Phase
Matchplay is the second phase in which the participants include mixed teams, individual archers, and teams competing with each other for different categories of the sport. The winner of a category moves further while the loser has to leave the event. This process is continued till an archer wins the championship. The set system is used to make a decision on the recurve matches while cumulative score is used to decide the winner for the compound matches.
Team Event
Team events also have rules to be followed. Each team consists of three archers and the gender of each of them is the same. The bow style should also be same which they have to use to shoot the arrows. The team has to score high to win the event. The total number of teams or mixed teams that can participate in a team event is 16.
Scoring Formats
Different scoring formats are used for recurve and compound competitions and we will discuss each of them here.
Set System
The score for recurve and barebow competition is decided through the set system. Archers have to score points to defeat their competitors. There is a fixed number of points which archers have to achieve to become a winner. An archer has to shoot three arrows in a set. If he wins a set, two points are awarded to him. In the case of a tie, each archer gets one point.
Each team has to score a maximum of five points in a set. Archers have to fire six arrows in a set. If archers have completed four sets and the match is tied at four set points, it results in a tiebreak.
Cumulative Score
In the case of compound matches, a cumulative score is used to decide the winner. Archers have to score the highest number of points to win a match. In the case of an individual event, an archer has to shoot 154 arrows while in a team event, 24 arrows are shot. If the points result in a tie, players have to go for a tiebreak.
Tiebreak
The tiebreak format for all types of matches like barebow, compound, and recurve is same. In the case of individual matches, archers have to shoot an arrow in the center of the target. The winner of the match is the archer whose arrow reaches closest to the center. If the decision is difficult for the judge, the arrows are shot again.
In the case of a team match, each archer has to shoot one arrow in the tiebreak. The team that scores the highest is declared as the winner. In the case of a tie of scores, judges decide the winner on the basis of the arrow that is closest to the center. Another shooting is done if the closest arrow cannot be determined.
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