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4 unusual facts about Archery


Confronted animals

Human figures are often treated in the same way, often mixed in with animals in decorative schemes - archers were especially popular in the Romanesque period.

Maghnia

The remnants of burned Ancient Roman military posts were discovered by the French army in 1836, when they entered the area; these posts were occupied, according to the inscriptions, by a numerus Syrorum: a unit of Syrian archers.

Sanjeeva Kumar Singh

Sanjeeva Kumar Singh is an Indian Archery coach from Jharkhand.

The Magdalen Reading

The view through the window is of a distant canal, with an archer atop the garden wall and a figure walking on the other side of the water, whose reflection shows in the water.


101-in-1 Explosive Megamix

Players can use the stylus and touch screen to test their reflexes in action mini-games like racing and skydiving, take on sporting events such as basketball, curling, and archery, strategize with tank and space combat games, or play match three, Sudoku, and jigsaw puzzles.

1949 World Archery Championships

The 1949 World Archery Championships was the 13th edition of the World Archery Championships.

2006 FITA Archery World Cup

The 2006 FITA Archery World Cup was the first edition of the FITA Archery World Cup, designed to highlight archery in some of the world's "most spectacular" locations following the success of the 2003 World Archery Championships in New York and the 2004 Summer Olympics.

2008 ASEAN ParaGames

The 4th ASEAN Para Games sports include archery, athletics, badminton, boccia, chess, fencing, goalball, judo, powerlifting, shooting, swimming, table tennis, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair tennis.

Abdul-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr

The mubarizun unit of the Rashidun army was composed of elite warriors who were champion swordsmen, lancers and archers.

Ali Adnan

He was due to be the first person to represent Iraq in archery at the Olympic Games, having qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but the entire Iraqi delegation was banned from the Games by the International Olympic Committee due to Iraqi government interference in the Iraqi national Olympic Committee.

Almudena Gallardo

She then lost to 8th-ranked Evangelia Psarra of Greece 160-152, finishing 13th in women's individual archery.

Archery at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's Continental style

The men's Continental style was one of three archery events on the Archery at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme.

Archery at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's individual

The men's individual archery event at the 1972 Summer Olympics was part of the archery programme.

Archery at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's individual

The women's individual archery event at the 1972 Summer Olympics was part of the archery programme.

Archery in India

Deepika Kumari won an individual gold medal in archery at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, beating Olympic bronze medalist Alison Williamson.

Butch Johnson

At the 2004 Olympics, he was surprisingly eliminated by Ron van der Hoff with 135-145 in the round of 64, placing 52nd overall in men's individual archery.

Clout

Clout archery, a form of archery in which archers shoot arrows at a flag from a relatively long distance

Creigiau

Local amenities include a bilingual primary school, which teaches through the medium of both Welsh and English, a golf club, a small Tesco Express shop - which is also the Post Office, a Recreation Ground managed by village residents (home of local archery, cricket, football, petanque and tennis clubs), a GP surgery, and local pub called 'The Creigiau Inn'.

Denis Gankin

Denis Gankin (born 13 December 1989 in Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan) is a Kazakhstani archer.

E.T. Seton Park

The park adjoins the Ontario Science Centre and contains an archery range, nordic skiing and equestrian trails as well as three firepits and plenty of paths for cycling and jogging.

François Racine de Monville

At the court of Louis XV, he was very successful because of his multiple talents; he excelled at fencing, handball, and archery; he was an excellent musician, singing and playing the flute and harp, singing and composing music, in the company of writer Stephanie de Genlis, playwright Pierre Beaumarchais and composer Christoph Gluck.

Great Britain at the 1960 Summer Paralympics

Britain's first ever Paralympic gold medal was won by Margaret Maughan, in archery.

Guru Baaje

Born as a Dharma Gurung in Dhanubas but lovingly called Dharmu, he became famous as Dhanu Guru in 18th century Nepal when people realized his extra ordinary mastership in archery but later was called Guru Baaje for his profund wisdom on the dharma when he moved to kalabang(Kaloban/Black Forest) Gareti, Pumdibhumdi, Nepal.

Hastings School of Art

The art department was moved to the main college campus in Archery Road, St Leonards-on-Sea in 1982.

Imagawa Sadayo

During his early years Sadayo was taught Buddhism, Confucianism and Chinese, archery, and the military arts such as strategy and horse-back riding by his father (governor of the Tōkaidō provinces Tōtōmi and Suruga), along with poetry, which was to become one of his greatest passions.

Indian Trail High School and Academy

Lack of proper facilities allowed the physical education department to include activities not found in other high schools, such as Dance Dance Revolution, bowling (at a nearby bowling alley), cross-country skiing, archery, and street hockey.

Jardin d'Acclimatation

The park includes an archery range, house of mirrors, miniature-golf course, narrow-gauge train, pony ride, puppet theater, shooting galleries, a science museum (the Exploradôme), and an art museum for children (the Musée en Herbe).

Jignas

His superlative performance at the schooling age of 14 while studying class IX in Second South Asian Archery championship held in Jamshedpur has brought fame to the entire Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh archery fraternity and also to Volga Archery academy under international coach Lenin, who died in an accident while travelling back home along with

Lars Erik Humlekjær

He competed in archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he placed tenth with the Norwegian team and 40th in the individual competition.

Mark Javier

An alumnus of Silliman University with a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology degree, Mark Javier was also a member of the Silliman University Dumaguete Archery Club (SUDAC) and the National Archery Association of the Philippines (NAAP).

McCalla, Alabama

The park is home to several festivals throughout the year, including the Southern Appalachian Dulcimer Festival, the Down Home Psaltery Festival, archery tournaments, a civil war reenactment, and other events.

Modern competitive archery

Most targets in competitive archery use some kind of stalks of grain or grass and may be constructed of marsh grass woven into a rope then wrapped around into a target.

Howard Hill used his extraordinary accuracy for the archery in the movie The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) starring Errol Flynn.

Morgan Lundin

Morgan Lundin (born 20 May 1969), is an athlete from Sweden, who competes in compound archery.

Mulben

A small farm upon the road that leads in that northerly direction called House of Mulben has also become a tourist attraction by offering such activities as archery, clay pigeon shooting, off road driving with Land Rover Defenders, zorbing and the chance to fish in a small, private lake.

Naomi Folkard

She then lost to 1st-ranked and eventual gold medalist Park Sung Hyun of Korea 171-159, finishing 11th in women's individual archery.

Nichola Simpson

She won Bronze at the 2nd World Cup leg in San Salvador in 2006, which was Great Britain's first Archery World Cup medal.

Nurul Syafiqah Hashim

Nurul Syafiqah Hashim (born 1 January 1994 in Pahang, Malaysia) is a Malaysian archer.

Philippe Kouassi

René Philippe Kouassi (born 14 December 1979 in Adzopé, Côte d'Ivoire) is an Ivorian archer.

Pranitha Vardhineni

Pranitha Vardhineni (born 17 November 1990, in Kalleda village in Warangal, Andhra Pradesh) is an Indian archer.

Pub games

Henry VII's statute of 1495 restricted "the indoor games which were distracting Tudor pubmen from archery".

Roberval dos Santos

In 2006, dos Santos won the third stage in Antalya, Turkey, making him the first Brazilian to win a World Class Event in archery.

Sharaf Khan Bidlisi

And once Bidlisi attained maturity, he was thought the martial arts (sipahigira), archery, polo, racing, swordmanship, and the precepts of chivalry - humanism and generosity.

Shoot a Crooked Arrow

Batman and Robin trace the Archer to his hideout at the Earl of Huntington Archery Range (Robin Hood was the alias of the Earl of Huntingdon) in Gotham's Green Forest section, where Alfred Pennyworth attempts to divert the antagonists long enough for Batman and Robin to inspect his lair.

Sven Bergqvist

He took up archery and was chosen to represent Sweden at the 1960 Summer Paralympics in Rome, but he had to decline due to financial reasons since he would have had to pay all expenses himself.

The Takshashila Institution

The Vedas and the Eighteen Silpas or Arts, which included skills such as archery, hunting, and elephant lore, were taught, in addition to its law school, medical school, and school of military science.

Turkish archery

In 1910 an archery contest was held on the beach at Le Touquet, France, where Ingo Simon was able to shoot an arrow 434 m using an old Turkish composite bow requiring a force of 440N or 99 lb.

Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey

The game then passes through the cave of Polyphemus, Aeaea and Circe, Scylla or Charybdis, Thrinacia and finally home to Ithaca, where the player must win an archery contest to win Penelope.


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