Olympic Games

Archery at the Olympics

Archery first appeared at the 1900 Olympics in Paris. There were archery events for the next few Olympics, but then it disappeared from the Olympic program for more than 50 years. It reappeared at Munich in 1972 and has remained a fixture ever since.
Early Olympic Games had unique archery events, with unusual names like:
- Au Cordon Doré
- Au Chapelet
- Sur la Perche à la Herse
- Sur la Perche à la Pyramide
- Team round
- Double American round
- Double Columbia round
- Double National round
- Double York round
- Continental style, men
- Individual fixed with large and small bird
- Individual moving bird
- Team fixed large and small bird
- Team moving bird

Modern Olympic archery consists of four medal events: men's individual, women's individual, men's team, and women's team. In all four events, the distance from the archer to the target is 70 meters.
The archery competitions in Athens in 2004 were staged in the same Panathenaic Stadium that was used for the 1896 Olympics.