Esplanade des Invalides Hosts Archery

In the grand setting of the Esplanade des Invalides, framed by the tranquil embrace of rows of trees, the 2024 Olympic Games will host the archery and para archery events, showcasing the prowess of athletes from around the world.

Getting an opportunity to participate at this beautiful site will be Fiji’s first female archer, 26-year-old Archer Chaandvi Prasad.

Chaandvi joins 3-time Olympian Archer Robert Elder (2004, 2012, 2016) to have represented Fiji in Archery which has been a permanent fixture at the Olympic Games since 1972.

The archery competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run over a seven-day period, from 25 July to 4 August, at Les Invalides.

Archery’s history at the Olympic would also see the sport as one of the few to feature a women’s events, in 1904.

Currently, 64 men and 64 women compete in target archery events with recurve bows at the Olympics. The reigning Olympic Champions are Korea's Ku Bonchan and Chang Hye Jin.

Korea is archery’s most successful nation at the Olympic Games. The country made its debut in the Olympic archery competition at Los Angeles 1984 and has since accrued 23 gold, nine silver and seven bronze for a total of 39 medals. The Korean recurve women have never lost the team event in the eight times it has been held since 1988.

Korea won all four gold medals for the first time at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

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