Target Archery (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Modern competitive archery is governed by the International Archery Federation, abbreviated FITA (Federation Internationale de Tir a l'Arc). Olympic rules are derived from FITA rules. FITA is the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) recognized governing body for all of archery. Currently 142 nations are represented by FITA archery governing bodies. The largest of these are the FFTA (French archery federation) with approximately 60,000 members, FITARCO (Italian federation), DSB (German federation), AJAF (All-Japan archery federation), and the GNAS (Grand National Archery Society) of Great Britain, with approximately 30 000 members. In the United States the FITA affiliated governing body is USA Archery (National Archery Association of the United States) which dates to the 1870s, making it the second oldest archery governing body after GNAS, which dates to the 1860s.