Archery made its debut in the 1960 Summer Paralympics, it had eight events (four each for men and women) and they include: men's/women's Columbia round open, men's/women's FITA round open, men's women's St Nicholas round open and men's/women's Windsor open yet there were only three competitors per event. Great Britain won the most medals by winning one gold, four silvers and five bronzes. In the 1964 Summer Paralympics, the Albion round open debuted for both men and women where USA won the most medals by winning seven golds and two bronzes. In the 1968 Summer Paralympics, the St. Nicholas round open had two new events: cervical and tetraplegic for both men and women events. During the 1960s, Margaret Harriman won six golds for both Rhodesia (1960–1964) and South Africa (1968-1972).
In the 1972 Summer Paralympics, short western round open began which hosted three new rounds: men's individual and team and women's individual as well as hosting team events for FITA and short western and mixed St Nicholas team rounds for paraplegic and tetraplegic. West Germany won most of the events in that year by winning seven out of twelve golds on offer. In Toronto 1976, the events changed: FITA round remained but the rest of the rounds were replaced with advanced metric round, novice round open, short metric and tetraplegic round opens which were for both men and women. Team events for advanced metric round, FITA round open, novice and tetraplegics and short novice for men.
Archery at the 1980 Summer Paralympics, the FITA round was renamed to double FITA round open which included three new rounds: amputees, novice paraplegic/tetraplegic and round paraplegic for both men and women and team events for only men. In the 1984 Summer Paralympics, the FITA rounds contained classes: C1-2 and C3 & 6, division 3 and included those classes for the men's team events. The 1988 Summer Paralympics saw the number of events drop from eighteen to nine events (six events for men and three events for women), South Korea reigned the contest by winning four gold medals, one silver and one bronze.
In Barcelona 1992, the rounds were renamed once more and were named as individual events although there were classes for each: AR1 (quadriplegics) and AR2 (paraplegics) including two men's team events. 1996 Atlanta Paralympics, the classes changed again by featuring standing events as well as W1 and W2, for the first time, women's team events were featured, the women's Italian team won this event. From 2004 in Athens, there were two types of individual rounds: compound and recurve while team events were recurve.[1]
Medal table
Updated to the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Medalists
Men's events
Men's individual wheelchair 1 (W1)
Men's individual wheelchair 2 (W2)
Men's individual open (standing)
Men's wheelchair team (W1/2)
Men's teams open (standing)
Women's events
Women's wheelchair (W1/2)
Women's individual open (standing)
Women's teams open (W1/2)
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| Summer sports |
- Archery
- Athletics
- Boccia
- Paracanoe
- Cycling
- Equestrian
- Football
- Goalball
- Judo
- Paratriathlon
- Powerlifting
- Rowing
- Sailing
- Shooting
- Swimming
- Table tennis
- Volleyball
- Wheelchair basketball
- Wheelchair fencing
- Wheelchair rugby
- Wheelchair tennis
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| Past sports |
- Dartchery
- Ice sledge racing
- Lawn bowls
- Snooker
- Weightlifting
- Wrestling
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