Shanghai 2025: World’s best archers back in Shanghai for 15th time
The Hyundai Archery World Cup is back in China next week for the second stage of 2025, with over 270 athletes from 37 countries competing to win tickets to Nanjing, also of China, the location of this year’s Hyundai Archery World Cup Final.
It will be the 15th time Shanghai is a stop in archery’s premier international circuit but just the second time the financial area of Pudong will see the action unfold.
The event follows the first stage, which was in Central Florida (USA) in April, before the tour moves to Antalya (Türkiye) in June and then Madrid (Spain) in July. The winners from each of the four stages will qualify for the grand finale in Nanjing. They will be joined by additional athletes based on World Cup rankings, along with one athlete per discipline from the host nation, China.
Kim Woojin, James Lutz, Li Jiaman and Sara Lopez are the defending champions of the circuit that is in it’s 19th year. Colombia’s Lopez, already considered a great in compound, is bidding to win her tenth title.
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Key information
What’s happening? The second stage of the Hyundai Archery World Cup on 6-11 May 2025 at Yuanshen Stadium (qualification and eliminations) and Pudong Riverside Financial Plaza (finals).
What’s at stake? Stage winners book a ticket for the Hyundai Archery World Cup Final.
Who’s competing? More than 270 archers from 37 countries.
What’s the story? Another year in Shanghai (the 15th) and the second time the financial area of Pudong close to the Huangpu River shall host the action. Compound promises to have added intrigue after the announcement last month that compound mixed team will be at LA28.
Event schedule
- Tuesday 6 May: Compound qualifying
- Wednesday 7 May: Recurve qualifying
- Thursday 8 May: Compound eliminations
- Friday 9 May: Recurve eliminations
- Saturday 10 May: Compound finals*
- Sunday 11 May: Recurve finals*
*Teams in the morning, individual final fours in the afternoon.
How to watch
Coverage of the second stage of the 2025 Hyundai Archery World Cup is being shown worldwide by broadcast partners and available worldwide to archery+ subscribers.
Check local listings on BeIN (MENA), CCTV (China), Claro Sports (Latin America), Eleven (Chinese Taipei), Fox (Australia), SpoTV (Korea and Southeast Asia), SETIndia (Indian subcontinent), Rai (Italy) and TRT (Türkiye).
Live scores will be available on the World Archery website, and there will be coverage on World Archery’s digital platforms throughout the competition.
Prep for Gwangju
With no Olympic Games this year, the international summer calendar is far less condensed than what it was last year in the run up to Paris 2024.
Still, there’s no rest for the wicked: the Hyundai World Archery Championships are set up later this year in Gwangju, Korea – a major target already on every archer’s mind.
With countries only allowed to send three athletes per discipline to that enormous event in September, World Cups like Shanghai provide opportunities for lesser-known talents to enter the fray heading into their national selection process. In stages on the circuit, countries can have four entries per discipline.
With plenty of debutants and youngsters looking to shine in Shanghai, the stage is set for a breakout performance – perhaps even the emergence of archery’s new star, just in time for one of the sport’s most prestigious events.
Kim Woojin returns
Shanghai also marks Korea’s return into the Hyundai Archery World Cup picture.
Archery’s leading nation – fresh off sweeping all Olympic golds last summer – has not competed internationally since the Games, with their national trials clashing with the Central Florida stage in April.
Nine months on from his memorable gold medal final against Brady Ellison in Paris, Kim Woojin returns to the global stage. The veteran brings with him a wealth of experience and the kind of pedigree few can match.
With Ellison – the current world number one – also set to compete, the prospect of a rematch between these two giants feels very real. This time, the stage would be China, not France.
Who’s competing?
All four individual winners at last year’s stage Hyundai Archery World Cup circuit in Shanghai returns to China next week:
- Recurve men: Andres Temiño Mediel, Spain
- Recurve women: Lim Sihyeon, Korea
- Compound men: Nico Wiener, Austria
- Compound women: Jyothi Surekha Vennam, India
These are the top-ranked archers competing in Shanghai:
- Recurve men: Brady Ellison, USA (world rank: 1)
- Recurve women: Lim Sihyeon, Korea (world rank: 1)
- Compound men: Mike Schloesser, Netherlands (world rank: 1)
- Compound women: Ella Gibson, Great Britain (world rank: 1)
A total of 273 archers (92 recurve men, 73 recurve women, 65 compound men and 43 compound women) from the following 37 teams are registered to compete at the tournament:
AIN, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, China, Chinese Taipei, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Great Britain, Germany, Hong Kong, China, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Macau, China, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Singapore, Slovenia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkiye, USA and Vietnam.
Competition in Shanghai starts with compound qualifying on Tuesday afternoon.
