Asian Archery Championships facts for kids

Asian Archery Championships is the archery championship organized by the World Archery Asia.

It has been held biannually, and since 2001 has included both the recurve and compound disciplines. The tournament began in 1980 and it was first hosted in India. Countries such as South Korea, China, Japan, and India compete, with many of the world's leading archers representing them.

List of tournaments and champions

Recurve

	Year	Host	Men's individual	Women's individual	Men's team	Women's team	Mixed team
1	1980	Kolkata, India
2	1981	Singapore	Carlos Santos Jr.	Park Young-sook	South Korea	South Korea
3	1983	Hong Kong	Kim Young-woon	Kim Jin-ho	South Korea	South Korea
4	1985	Jakarta, Indonesia	Chun In-soo	Seo Hyang-soon	South Korea	South Korea
5	1988	Kolkata, India	Ho Jin-soo	Kim Soo-nyung	South Korea	South Korea
6	1989	Beijing, China			India
7	1991	Manila, Philippines	Han Seung-hun	Lee Jang-mi	South Korea	South Korea
8	1993	Jakarta, Indonesia	Kim Bo-ram	Kim Kyung-wook	South Korea	South Korea
9	1996	Chonburi, Thailand	Luo Hengyu	Kim Jung-rye	South Korea	South Korea
10	1997	Langkawi, Malaysia	Oh Kyo-moon	Yoon Hye-young	Japan	South Korea
11	1999	Beijing, China	Chung Jae-hun	Kang Hyun-ji	South Korea	South Korea
12	2001	Hong Kong	Kim Won-sub	Zhang Juanjuan	South Korea	Chinese Taipei
13	2003	Yangon, Myanmar	Lee Dong-wook	Lin Sang	South Korea	South Korea
14	2005	New Delhi, India	Im Dong-hyun	Park Sung-hyun	South Korea	China
15	2007	Xi'an, China	Wang Cheng-pang	Lee Sung-jin	India	South Korea
16	2009	Denpasar, Indonesia	Kuo Cheng-wei	Joo Hyun-jung	South Korea	Japan
17	2011	Tehran, Iran	Khairul Anuar Mohamad	Yang Nien-hsiu	Malaysia	Japan	Kazakhstan
18	2013	Taipei, Taiwan	Takaharu Furukawa	Lei Chien-ying	South Korea	South Korea	India
19	2015	Bangkok, Thailand	Lee Woo-seok	Chang Hye-jin	South Korea	South Korea	Chinese Taipei
20	2017	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Lee Seung-yun	Lee Eun-gyeong	South Korea	South Korea	South Korea
21	2019	Bangkok, Thailand	Lee Woo-seok	Kang Chae-young	South Korea	South Korea	South Korea
22	2021	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Lee Seung-yun	Lim Hae-jin	South Korea	South Korea	South Korea
23	2023	Bangkok, Thailand	Kim Woo-jin	Choi Mi-sun	South Korea	South Korea	South Korea

Compound

	Year	Host	Men's individual	Women's individual	Men's team	Women's team	Mixed team
12	2001	Hong Kong	Wang Chih-hao	Huang I-ting	Chinese Taipei	Chinese Taipei
13	2003	Yangon, Myanmar	Wang Chih-hao	Choi Mi-yeon	South Korea
14	2005	New Delhi, India	Cai Shuo	Jhano Hansdah	India
15	2007	Xi'an, China	Earl Yap	Kwon Oh-hyang	Iran	Philippines
16	2009	Denpasar, Indonesia	Isiah Rajendra Sanam	Seok Ji-hyun	India	South Korea
17	2011	Tehran, Iran	Reza Zamaninejad	Maryam Ranjbar	Iran	South Korea	South Korea
18	2013	Taipei, Taiwan	Abhishek Verma	Seok Ji-hyun	India	Chinese Taipei	India
19	2015	Bangkok, Thailand	Rajat Chauhan	Jyothi Surekha Vennam	India	South Korea	South Korea
20	2017	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Abhishek Verma	Song Yun-soo	South Korea	India	South Korea
21	2019	Bangkok, Thailand	Choi Yong-hee	Seol Da-yeong	South Korea	South Korea	India
22	2021	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Kim Jong-ho	Jyothi Surekha Vennam	South Korea	South Korea	South Korea
23	2023	Bangkok, Thailand	Andre Tyutyun	Parneet Kaur	South Korea	India	India