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Archery is truly a historic sport – a contest of mind and body control, as well as precision – and has roots dating back to its use as a weapon of hunting and war in ancient times.
Archery first entered the Olympic programme at Paris 1900 as a longbow sport before a break of 52 years between 1920 and 1972. The sport has been present at the Games ever since with recurve the only archery discipline now featured. Olympic archers shoot at a 122cm-diameter target from a distance of 70m.
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has confirmed the selection of six archers to represent Team GB at the Tokyo Olympics 2021 including four-time Olympian Naomi Folkard. Folkard has competed at the Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games. In team events she has won three world bronze medals, a gold and silver at the 2019 European Games and a silver at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games, as well as gold, silver and bronze medals in individual recurve at the World Games.
Patrick Huston will be competing in his second Olympics. Huston previously represented Team GB at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games after winning bronze at the 2016 European Championships, and won silver and bronze with mixed team partner Folkard at the European Games in 2019 and World Championships in 2017 respectively.He won the individual silver medal and team bronze at the European Field Championships in 2017 and was part of the bronze winning team at the Archery World Cup in Antalya 2018.
There will be Olympic debuts for Sarah Bettles, Bryony Pitman, Tom Hall and James Woodgate in a competition due to take place at the Yumenoshima Park Archery Field from July 23 to 31.
Bettles won gold as part of Team GB in the women’s recurve team event at the 2019 European Games and was part of the team that won bronze at the World Archery Championships in 2019.
Pitman is the youngest member of the women’s team but was also part of the bronze winning team at the 2019 World Archery Championships and won gold as part of the women’s recurve team at the 2019 European Games.
Currently ranked number one in the UK, Hall was part of the team that secured the Olympic quota places in 2019 alongside Huston and was also a member of the bronze winning team at the Archery World Cup in 2018.
At 18, Woodgate is the youngest member of the archery team to be selected for Tokyo.
David Tillotson, archery team leader for Tokyo said: “Being on so early in the Games programme gives us a great opportunity to lead Team GB off in a successful Olympic Games.”
Archery joins shooting, triathlon, sport climbing, canoeing, swimming, athletics and sailing as the first sports to announce the athletes selected to Team GB for the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which are due to take place from July 23 to August 8.