List of Paralympic medalists in archery

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.

Medal table

Updated to the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Summer Paralympics Archery medal table
Rank	NPC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	18	8	18	44
2	France (FRA)	15	12	12	39
3	South Korea (KOR)	15	9	11	35
4	West Germany (FRG)	15	9	9	33
5	Great Britain (GBR)	14	20	20	54
6	Italy (ITA)	8	9	9	26
7	South Africa (RSA)	7	4	1	12
8	Japan (JPN)	5	12	9	26
9	Belgium (BEL)	5	6	2	13
10	Australia (AUS)	4	9	2	15
11	Finland (FIN)	4	5	3	12
11	Sweden (SWE)	4	5	3	12
13	China (CHN)	4	4	4	12
14	Rhodesia (RHO)	4	0	0	4
15	Norway (NOR)	3	3	3	9
16	Austria (AUT)	3	2	1	6
17	Germany (GER)	3	1	3	7
18	Canada (CAN)	3	0	2	5
19	Netherlands (NED)	2	9	3	14
20	Poland (POL)	2	4	3	9
21	Switzerland (SUI)	2	3	4	9
22	Russia (RUS)	2	1	2	5
23	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	1	1	4
24	Denmark (DEN)	2	0	2	4
25	Ireland (IRL)	1	1	0	2
25	New Zealand (NZL)	1	1	0	2
27	Iran (IRI)	1	0	1	2
27	Slovakia (SVK)	1	0	1	2
27	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	1	2
30	Mexico (MEX)	1	0	0	1
30	Mongolia (MGL)	1	0	0	1
30	Unified Team (EUN)	1	0	0	1
33	Spain (ESP)	0	2	1	3
34	Malaysia (MAS)	0	1	0	1
34	Thailand (THA)	0	1	0	1
34	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	0	1
37	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	2	2

Medalists

Defunct events

Advanced metric round open (held between 1976 to 1984)
Albion round open (held between 1964 to 1968)
Columbia round open (held between 1960 to 1968)
FITA round open (held between 19 to 19)
Novice round open (held in 1976)
Short metric round open (held in 1972 to 1984)
St. Nicholas round open (held between 1960 to 1976)
Windsor round open (held in 1960)

Men's events

Men's individual wheelchair 1 (W1)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1992 Barcelona	Koichi Minami Japan	Richard Spizzirri United States	Giampiero Mercandelli Italy
1996 Atlanta	Ouk Soo Lee South Korea	Jappie Walstra Netherlands	Udo Wolf Germany
2000 Sydney	Zdenek Sebek Czech Republic	Olivier Hatem France	Dejan Miladinovic France
2004 Athens	John Cavanagh Great Britain	Anders Groenberg Sweden	Jeffrey Fabry United States
2008 Beijing	David Drahonisky Czech Republic	John Cavanagh Great Britain	Jeffrey Fabry United States

Men's individual wheelchair 2 (W2)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1992 Barcelona	Orazio Pizzorni Italy	Hermann Nortmann Germany	Udo Wolf Germany
1996 Atlanta	Martti Rantavouri Finland	Kurt MacCaferri Switzerland	Koichi Minami Japan
2000 Sydney	Hong Gu Lee South Korea	Young Joo Jung South Korea	Oscar De Pellegrin Italy
2004 Athens	Mario Oehme Germany	Young Joo Jung South Korea	Hong Gu Lee South Korea
2008 Beijing	Cheng Changjie China	Marco Vitale Italy	Tseng Lung-Hui Chinese Taipei

Men's individual open (standing)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1992 Barcelona	Jens Fudge Denmark	Kenichi Nishii Japan	Hyun Kwan Cho South Korea
1996 Atlanta	Ryszard Olejnik Poland	Jean Francois Garcia France	Tae Sung An South Korea
2000 Sydney	Tae Sung An South Korea	Serhiy Atamanenko Ukraine	Imrich Lycosa Slovakia
2004 Athens	Imrich Lycosa Slovakia	Tomasz Lezanski Poland	Tae Sung An South Korea
2008 Beijing	Baatarjav Dambadondog Mongolia	Fabrice Meunier France	Chen Yegang China

Men's wheelchair team (W1/2)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1992 Barcelona	Germany (GER)	Italy (ITA)	South Korea (KOR)
1996 Atlanta	Germany (GER)	Italy (ITA)	South Korea (KOR)
2000 Sydney	Italy (ITA)	France (FRA)	South Korea (KOR)
2004 Athens	South Korea (KOR)	Japan (JPN)	United States (USA)
2008 Beijing	South Korea (KOR)	China (CHN)	Italy (ITA)

Men's teams open (standing)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1992 Barcelona	South Korea (KOR)	Spain (ESP)	France (FRA)
1996 Atlanta	South Korea (KOR)	Poland (POL)	Japan (JPN)

Women's events

Women's wheelchair (W1/2)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1992 Barcelona	Paola Fantato Italy	Elli Korva Finland	Hifumi Suzuki Japan
1996 Atlanta	Hifumi Suzuki Japan	Sandra Truccolo Italy	Paola Fantato Italy
2000 Sydney	Paola Fantato Italy	Kathleen Smith Great Britain	Hee Sook Ko South Korea
2004 Athens	Paola Fantato Italy	Naomi Isozaki Japan	Nako Hirasawa Japan

Women's individual open (standing)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1992 Barcelona	Tatiana Grishko Unified Team	Siv Thulin Sweden	Hanne Tved Denmark
1996 Atlanta	Małgorzata Olejnik Poland	Anita Chapman Great Britain	Marie-Francoise Hybois France
2000 Sydney	Anita Chapman Great Britain	Małgorzata Olejnik Poland	Malgorzata Korzeniowska Poland
2004 Athens	Yanhong Wang China	Wasana Karpmaichan Thailand	Małgorzata Olejnik Poland

Women's teams open (W1/2)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1996 Atlanta	Italy (ITA)	Japan (JPN)	Great Britain (GBR)
2000 Sydney	Italy (ITA)	Great Britain (GBR)	Japan (JPN)
2004 Athens	Great Britain (GBR)	Italy (ITA)	South Korea (KOR)

Lists of Paralympic medalists

Summer sports	Archery Athletics Boccia Cycling Equestrian Football Goalball Judo Powerlifting Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Table tennis Volleyball Wheelchair basketball Wheelchair fencing Wheelchair rugby Wheelchair tennis

Winter sports	Alpine skiing Biathlon Cross country skiing Ice sledge hockey Wheelchair curling

Past sports	Dartchery Ice sledge racing Lawn bowls Snooker Weightlifting Wrestling

Past sports	Racquetball

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