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Archery
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Archery has been a medal sport since the first Paralympic Games in Rome in 1960. Athletes with disability can showcase their shooting precision and accuracy either standing or in wheelchairs, depending on disability, in men’s and women’s categories.
The competition format is identical to that of the Olympic Games. Archers shoot 72 arrows from a distance of 70 meters at a target of 122 cm. A perfect score is 720.
Paralympic archery competition is open to male and female athletes in the categories for amputees, spinal cord injured/wheelchair and cerebral palsy/brain injury/stroke. For additional information on eligibility, click on the Classification link on the left side of this page.
For more information on disabled archery, visit:
http://web.mac.com/utahhotshot1/iWeb/American_Disabled_Archers
http://www.activeamp.org/sports/archery.htm
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