Archery World Cup 2023 season: Preview, schedule, how to watch live action
Kim Woo-jin, An San, Mike Schloesser, and Sara López are the defending World Cup champions from 2022 as the 2023 campaign nears.
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The world's best archers are back and ready to take on the 2023 Archery World Cup season – with potential spots at the Olympic Games on the line.
This season's World Cup stages are an indirect Paris 2024 qualifier, providing points towards the Archery World Rankings which will be used to determine two Olympic Games team quotas for both men and women as of the 24 June 2024 rankings.
There will be four stages on the 2023 calendar, with stops in Türkiye, the People's Republic of China, Colombia, and France, before a season-ending World Cup Final in Mexico.
Notably, Stage 4 of the 2023 Archery World Cup in Paris, France, will be held over two different venues, with the qualifications and finals being held at separate sites. The finals will be held at Les Invalides in the heart of Paris as an official Olympic Games test event.
As usual, both recurve and compound events will be contested during the World Cup, although only recurve archers will earn Olympic qualification ranking points as the compound bow is not shot in Olympic competitions.
The Republic of Korea's Kim Woojin and An San are the defending men's and women's recurve World Cup champions, while Dutchman Mike Schloesser and Colombian Sara López were the compound World Cup winners last year.
Kim, a two-time Olympic team gold medallist, and the triple Olympic champion An will be figures to watch again this season as the Republic of Korea look to continue their domination of recurve archery.
2023 Archery World Cup format
Each stage of the Archery World Cup will feature 10 events: men's and women's recurve individual, men's and women's compound individual, men's and women's recurve team, men's and women's compound team, and mixed team events in both recurve and compound.
The top 32 athletes in each event at each stage will earn points, and can earn bonus points by finishing in the top eight during the qualification round.
At the end of the four World Cup stages, each individual stage winner and the next best archers from the World Cup Ranking qualify for the Archery World Cup Final in Hermosillo, Mexico, with eight athletes (maximum two per team) in each individual event competing in the Final.
The World Cup champions will be decided through the standalone Final.
2023 Archery World Cup season schedule and calendar
- Stage 1: 18–23 April 2023, Antalya, Türkiye
- Stage 2: 16–21 May 2023, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
- Stage 3: 13–18 June 2023, Medellín, Colombia
- Stage 4: 15–20 August 2023, Paris, France (Paris 2024 Olympic test event)
- Archery World Cup Final: 9–10 September 2023, Hermosillo, Mexico
Other key 2023 events in outdoor recurve archery
- 23–29 June: 2023 European Games, Krakow, Poland
- 31 July–6 August: 2023 World Championships, Berlin, Germany
- 2–8 October 2023: 2022 Asian Games, Hangzhou, China
- 1–5 November: 2023 Pan American Games, Santiago, Chile
- 9–12 November: Asian Continental Qualifier for Paris 2024, Bangkok, Thailand
- 21–24 November: 2023 Pacific Games, Honiara, Solomon Islands
How to watch 2023 Archery World Cup live
You can watch all stages of the Archery World Cup events live on Olympics.com, subject to geographical restrictions.
Other broadcasters (live and delayed) include SPOTV in the Republic of Korea and across Southeast Asia, TRT Spor in Türkiye, CCTV in China, Eurosport in Europe, Claro Sports in Latin America, and Sony TEN in India.