- Did you know that bows and arrows have been used for at least 25,000 years?
- In history, some British monarchs banned football and various other sports because men were playing these instead of practising their archery.
- Bhutan’s national sport is archery.
- In the Middle Ages, a skilled long-bowman could release between 10-12 arrows per minute, that’s roughly around an arrow every 5-6 seconds.
- Another word for archer is toxophilite which comes from two Greek words which mean ‘lover of the bow’.
- When women were first allowed to compete in the olympics in 1904, archery was the only sport they could take part in.