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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, and is recognised by the International Olympic Committee.
To celebrate the organization's 80th anniversary in July 2011, a large majority of the FITA Congress voted to change the name from FITA to the World Archery or WA.
In March 2022, in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the federation announced that no athlete, team official, or technical official from Russia or Belarus will be permitted to participate in any international archery event, their flags and anthems are banned, and no archery events would be held in the two countries.
In July 2023, on the question that whether or not to re-allow athletics with Russian and/or Belarusian passports to participant international archery competitions under neutral identities, World Archery asked both national archery federations to submit personal data for investigations, as both federations denied to complete such requirements, WA said that it's unlikely to allow neutral athletes unless once procedure can be completely followed.
In December 2023, World Archery launched its own OTT Service with a subscription video on demand model and live streaming of main events.
Each archer earns a ranking score for each competition. The ranking scores are calculated through a combination of the ranking factor of the tournament (as determined by the quality of competition, the number of competitors, and how recently the competition took place) and points based on the competitor's final position in the competition. The archer's four highest ranking scores are then combined to form their 'Added Ranking Score', which forms the basis of the ranking list.
| + Current number one ranked archers | |||||
| Recurve bow | South Korea | South Korea | South Korea | ||
| Compound bow | India | Mexico | India | ||
| Outdoor | Indoor | Youth | Para | Field | University | 3D | |
| 1931 | Lwów | ||||||
| 1932 | Warsaw | ||||||
| 1933 | London | ||||||
| 1934 | Båstad | ||||||
| 1935 | Brussels | ||||||
| 1936 | Prague | ||||||
| 1937 | Paris | ||||||
| 1938 | London | ||||||
| 1939 | Oslo | ||||||
| 1946 | Stockholm | ||||||
| 1947 | Prague | ||||||
| 1948 | London | ||||||
| 1949 | Paris | ||||||
| 1950 | Copenhagen | ||||||
| 1952 | Brussels | ||||||
| 1953 | Oslo | ||||||
| 1955 | Helsinki | ||||||
| 1957 | Prague | ||||||
| 1958 | Brussels | ||||||
| 1959 | Stockholm | ||||||
| 1960 | |||||||
| 1961 | Oslo | ||||||
| 1962 | |||||||
| 1963 | Helsinki | ||||||
| 1965 | Västerås | ||||||
| 1966 | |||||||
| 1967 | Amersfoort | ||||||
| 1968 | |||||||
| 1969 | Valley Forge | Valley Forge | |||||
| 1970 | |||||||
| 1971 | York | Cardiff | |||||
| 1973 | Grenoble | ||||||
| 1974 | Zagreb | ||||||
| 1975 | Interlaken | ||||||
| 1977 | Canberra | ||||||
| 1979 | Berlin | ||||||
| 1981 | Punta Ala | ||||||
| 1982 | Kingsclere | ||||||
| 1983 | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1984 | Hyvinkää | ||||||
| 1985 | Seoul | ||||||
| 1986 | Radstadt | ||||||
| 1987 | Adelaide | ||||||
| 1989 | Lausanne | ||||||
| 1990 | Loen | ||||||
| 1991 | Kraków | Oulu | Sandefjord | ||||
| 1992 | Margraten | ||||||
| 1993 | Antalya | Perpignan | Moliets-et-Maa | ||||
| 1994 | Roncegno | Vertus | |||||
| 1995 | Jakarta | Birmingham | |||||
| 1996 | Chula Vista | Kranjska Gora | Vaulx-en-Velin | ||||
| 1997 | Victoria | Istanbul | |||||
| 1998 | Sunne | Stoke Mandeville | Obergurgl | Taoyuan City | |||
| 1999 | Riom | Havana | Christchurch | ||||
| 2000 | Belfort | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Madrid | ||||
| 2001 | Beijing | Florence | Nymburk | ||||
| 2002 | Nymburk | Canberra | Chonburi | ||||
| 2003 | New York | Nîmes | Madrid | Sully-sur-Loire | |||
| 2004 | Lilleshall | Plitvice | Madrid | ||||
| 2005 | Madrid | Aalborg | Massa Carrara | Genoa | |||
| 2006 | Mérida | Gothenburg | Viničné | ||||
| 2007 | Leipzig | İzmir | Cheongju | Sopron | |||
| 2008 | Antalya | Llwynypia | Tainan | ||||
| 2009 | Ulsan | Rzeszów | Ogden | Nymburk | Latina | ||
| 2010 | Visegrád | Shenzhen | |||||
| 2011 | Turin | Legnica | Turin | Donnersbach | |||
| 2012 | Las Vegas | ||||||
| 2013 | Belek | Wuxi | Bangkok | Sassari | |||
| 2014 | Nîmes | ||||||
| 2015 | Copenhagen | Yankton | Donaueschingen | Terni | |||
| 2016 | Ankara | ||||||
| 2017 | Mexico City | Rosario | Beijing | Wrocław | |||
| 2018 | Yankton | ||||||
| 2019 | 's-Hertogenbosch | Madrid | 's-Hertogenbosch | Lac La Biche | |||
| 2021 | Yankton | Wrocław | Yankton | ||||
| 2022 | Dubai | Terni | |||||
| 2023 | Berlin | Limerick | Plzeň |
Archery is also competed at the Summer Paralympics (Recurve bow and Compound bow disciplines), the Youth Olympic Games (Recurve bow only), and the World Games (Field archery only).
Presently, there are five principal formats of the World Archery Championships: Outdoor, Indoor, Youth, Para-Archery, and Field archery. Each is held every two years on different rotations. World Championships are also held every two years in 3D archery and University sport. In 2007, a ski archery World Championships was held in Moscow; this is yet to be repeated and is not included in the current rotation.
| 2019 (50th) |
| 2018 (14th) |
| 2018 (26th) |
| 2019 (9th) |
| 2017 (10th) |
| 2019 (12th) |
| 2019 (16th) |
| 2016 (11th) |
The format consists of 4 rounds competed across the world during a calendar year. The best individual and mixed team performers across these rounds are then invited to compete in the World Cup Final at the end of the year.[1]
An indoor World Cup, competed in 3 rounds with a final during the winter season, was inaugurated in the 2010–11 season.
| Recurve bow | Men's Individual | |||
| Women's Individual | TBD | |||
| Men's Team | Kim Je-deok Kim Woo-jin Lee Woo-seok | Kim Je-deok Kim Woo-jin Lee Woo-seok | ||
| Women's Team | Jeon Hun-young Lim Si-hyeon Nam Su-hyeon | Chiu Yi-ching Hsu Hsin-Tzu Li Cai-xuan | ||
| Mixed Team | Lim Si-hyeon Kim Woo-jin | Elia Canales Andrés Temiño | ||
| Compound bow | Men's Individual | |||
| Women's Individual | ||||
| Men's Team | Prathamesh Fuge Aman Saini Rishabh Yadav | |||
| Women's Team | Andrea Becerra Mariana Bernal Adriana Castillo | |||
| Mixed Team | Sanne de Laat Mike Schloesser | |||
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