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First number of WAE Magazine Peep Sight ! Take a read … click here !

Congratulations to Mr. Leon Uratnik, new President of Archers Association of Slovenia!

Continental Quota Tournament for Youth Olympic Games The European Youth Championship will be held in Ljubljana, from 19 to 24 May 2014, and will serve as Continental Qualifying Event for the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. During the Championship, a special competition will be held for athletes eligible to compete in the 2014 Youth Olympic Games….

Saturday and Sunday (23-24 Nov.) the WAE Executive Board meeting was held in Rome and many important decisions were taken: – Organization of the next WAE Elective Congress in Echmiadzin (Armenia) which will be held on 20 July 2014, on the eve of the European Outdoor Championship (21-26 July 2014). – Continental Quota Tournament for…

Thanks to European Archery Festival, we’ve launch this morning a special archery photo contest. Win 2 full weekend tickets to the European Archery Festival – 2° stage of Indoor World Cup in Telford (24-26 January 2014). Snap a picture of the strangest/funniest/cutest/weirdest/most interesting item in your archery box and submit it on our facebook fan page. Here the…

15 candidates accredited as WAE Continental Judges A successful WAE Continental Judge Seminar was held in Wiesbaden (GER) from 25 to 27 October 2013, conducted by WAE Judges Committee, Mr. Pol Ney, Mr. Jean Martens and Mr. Henk Wagemakers. 18 candidates from 11 European Member Associations participated to the Seminar. Both genders were equally represented with 8…

The European Quota Tournament for the Olympic Games in London was held on 25 May, during the European Championships in Amsterdam. 83 recurve men and 46 recurve women were standing on the shooting line determined upon gaining a ticket for London. The level of stress was very high and all the archers were followed with…

At the conclusion of the first Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, once again the European archers confirm their usual attendance on the podium. The Junior Men Rick van den Oever (NED) and Bolot Tsybzhitov (RUS) won respectively the silver and bronze medal. Among the Junior Women the Russian Tatiana Segina (RUS) won the bronze medal….

We are greatly saddened to learn of the death on 5 January 2009 of Ms Oktyabrina BOLOTOVA, member of the Russian team. Oktyabrina BOLOTOVA was a member of National archery team of Russia and won several World and European medals both individually and as part of the women”s compound team. Many times her last arrow…

Due to a financial crisis, the Hellenic Archery Federation informed us to be unable to hold the 1st leg of the Grand Prix 2010, which was scheduled in Rhodes (GRE) from 20 to 25 April 2010. For such a reason, the EMAU Council is forced to announce the removal of such a tournament from the…