Chinese city Shanghai has been replaced by Gwangju in South Korea as the host of the Asian leg of the Archery World Cup due to travel restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Gwangju in South Korea overcame Spanish capital Madrid to secure the hosting rights for the World Archery Championships in 2025.

The upcoming Archery World Cup season will have its biggest prize pool to date, World Archery has said after confirming the calendar for 2022.

Para archery team events, which currently feature three athletes, are to be replaced by doubles contests at World Archery competitions.

World Archery’s unrestricted funds at the end of 2020 plunged to little more than CHF1 million (£790,000/$1.07 million/€924,000) as the International Federation (IF) wrestled with the fall-out from a COVID-19 pandemic that prompted postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and wreaked havoc with last year’s outdoor archery season.

Colombian Sara López claimed her third gold medal of the 2021 World Archery Championships in Yankton, with a win in the women's individual compound final.

World Archery has re-elected Uğur Erdener as its President, after he stood unopposed today at the World Archery Congress in Yankton in the United States.

Uğur Erdener is set to be re-elected unopposed to serve his final term as President of World Archery during the organisation's elections at its Congress in Yankton.

Japan's Tetsuya Aoshima and India's Komalika Bari claimed the junior men's and women's recurve gold medals on the final day of the World Archery Youth Championships in Wrocław.

World Archery Youth Championships compound finals took place in Polish city Wrocław today, with India beginning proceedings with a clean sweep in the cadet team events.

The line-up for this weekend’s finals in the men’s, women’s and mixed cadet and junior team events in the compound and recurve disciplines were confirmed today at the World Archery Youth Championships in Wrocław.

The finalists in the individual junior and cadet categories were confirmed on the third day of the World Archery Youth Championships in the Polish city Wrocław.

Team knockout rounds started on the second day of the World Archery Youth Championships in Wrocław in Poland, across seven categories.

The nominations for the World Archery Congress 2021 have been announced, with Uğur Erdener set to be re-elected as President of the federation.