The organisation in charge of overseeing the sport of archery is called the World Archery Federation (WA, also and formerly known as FITA from the French Fédération Internationale de Tir à l’Arc). Its headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is acknowledged by the International Olympic Committee and consists of 156 national federations and other archery associations.
History
On September 4th, 1931, FITA was established in Lwow, Poland (today Lviv, Ukraine). France, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Poland, the United States, Hungary, and Italy were its seven founding members. [1] The group’s goals were to revive archery in the Olympic Games and establish regular archery championships (the sport had not been featured since 1920). In the Summer Olympics of 1972, FITA finally succeeded in bringing back archery to the Olympic programme.
The World Archery Federation, or WA, was chosen as the new name by the FITA Congress in July 2011 to mark the organization’s 80th anniversary.
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Federation declared in March 2022 that no athlete, team representative, or technical official from Russia or Belarus will be allowed to compete in any international archery competition, that their flags and anthems are forbidden, and that no archery competitions will be held in those two nations.
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