Eight Olympic spots were up for grabs in the women’s individual recurve event at the Final Olympic Qualifier in Antalya, Türkiye and seven countries — Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine— gained their first women's quotas for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with the final spot to be decided via world ranking.

The Chinese women’s recurve team beat the top-seeded Koreans for the second time in a row, taking the gold at the Hyundai Archery World Cup 2024 in Yecheon, Republic of Korea. China and Korea had played out an exciting gold medal match in the season opener in Shanghai last month with the former pulling ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games champions.

Elisabeth Straka, Reena Parnat, and Elif Berra Gokkir clinched the top three spots on the podium in the European qualifier held in Essen, Germany, securing individual quota places for Austria, Estonia, and Turkey in the recurve women's category for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

China emerged victorious against a revamped women's recurve team from South Korea at the inaugural stage of the Archery World Cup in Shanghai.

Emirati athletes continued their impressive showing at the inaugural Gulf Youth Games UAE 2024, adding 37 medals on day 12 - a new single-day record since the tournament began on 16 April and ends on 2 May. The total tally now stands at 231 medals, including 73 gold, 86 silver and 72 bronze.

The New Zealand Sports Tribunal has banned an archer from all sport for two years after he tested positive for a banned beta blocker at the North Island Senior Target Archery Championships.

Last Monday, the South Korean was excluded from the team for the Paris Games after failing to qualify in the top 16 of the 24 competitors. The Asian nation is a global powerhouse in the sport, particularly in the women's team even.

World Archery has announced the shortlists for the 2023 Athlete of the Year Awards for nine of the prizes, including the six category trophies - recurve men, recurve women, compound men, compound women, Para men and Para women - which will be open for public voting from 10 November to 10 December 2023.

Dhiraj Bommadevara had an outstanding performance in the Asian Continental Qualifier Tournament and, by reaching the final, secured India's first Olympic spot in recurve archery for Paris 2024. The competition took place in Bangkok, Thailand, and maintained a consistent performance from the early qualifying rounds.

In anticipation of the 2027 World Archery Championships, World Archery this week completed an on-site evaluation of Nyborg, Denmark's potential as the host city. 

Dutchmen Mike Schloesser and Steve Wijler triumphed in the men's events at the Archery Indoor World Series opener in Lausanne while Italy's Paola Natale and Denisa Baránková of Slovakia claimed the women's titles.

Indranil Datta of India and Britain's Kathy Lipscomb are set to chair teams of technical officials for archery competitions at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, respectively.

Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet has claimed that test events staged in the French capital over the past few days "gave us a foretaste" of the Olympics while World Triathlon leader Marisol Casado declared "this city is ready" despite issues surrounding the quality of water in the Seine.

This year's women's recurve stage winners Penny Healey and Lim Si-hyeon were eliminated before the semi-finals of the Archery World Cup in Paris, serving as a test event for next year's Olympic Games.

India claimed two recurve team bronze medals at the Archery World Cup in Paris, which is also serving as a test event for the 2024 Olympic Games, while South Korea and Chinese Taipei qualified outfits for gold medal matches.