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

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)
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