World’s best archers head to Antalya for third stage and key tests
The Hyundai Archery World Cup is back in Antalya for the 19th time, with more than 300 archers competing for tickets to the 2025 Hyundai Archery World Cup Final in Nanjing.
We are at the halfway point of the World Cup season. Antalya 2025 is the third of four stages – following Central Florida and Shanghai – in a series that has been a fixture on archery’s premier international circuit since the competition’s inception in 2006. Madrid will host the final stage later this year.
Each individual gold medallist crowned in Türkiye from the four categories automatically qualifies for October’s Final. They will join the stage winners from earlier in the season: recurve men Florian Unruh and Kim Woojin, recurve women Penny Healey and Lee Gahyun, compound men Mathias Fullerton and Mike Schloesser, compound women Andrea Becerra and Madhura Dhamangaonkar. The remaining spots will be decided by world rankings.
Antalya 2025 also serves as a test event, piloting several changes: the introduction of an 11-ring, a shortened 60-arrow qualification round and a new schedule that sees the last recurve elimination matches take place alongside the compound finals on Saturday.
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Key information
What’s happening? The third stage of the Hyundai Archery World Cup on 3-8 June 2025 at the Antalya Centennial Archery Centre (qualification and eliminations) and Antalya Beach Park (finals).
What’s at stake? Stage winners earn tickets for the Hyundai Archery World Cup Final.
Who’s competing? 311 archers from 44 countries.
What’s the story? The world circuit returns to Antalya for the 19th time, but this year’s event will look a little different. Antalya 2025 is a test event for the 11-ring, a 60-arrow instead of 72-arrow qualifying round and a condensed schedule that finishes a day earlier than usual.
Event schedule
- Wednesday 4 June: Compound and recurve qualifying
- Thursday 5 June: Team eliminations
- Friday 6 June: Compound and mixed team eliminations
- Saturday 7 June: Recurve eliminations and compound finals*
- Sunday 8 June: Recurve finals*
*Teams in the morning, individual final fours in the afternoon. Recurve eliminations will take place on the qualification field.
How to watch
Coverage of the third 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.
Height of the outdoor season
As the post-Olympic year continues, the number of athletes at the previous two World Cups has been lower than last year – but Antalya boasts the largest field of 2025 so far, with 311 compound and recurve archers from 44 countries.
The timing also coincides with a busy stretch in the outdoor season, with the Medellin 2025 South American Open Championships, the 2025 Veronica’s Cup, the 2025 Conquest Cup and the Rome 2025 European Para Archery Cup all world ranking events and taking place between Shanghai and Antalya.
In addition to world ranking points and spots for Nanjing, Antalya provides valuable preparation for teams ahead of the upcoming World Archery Championships in Gwangju – now just three months away.
No Jiaman for China
China’s recurve women’s team will look different in Antalya, as reigning World Cup champion Li Jiaman is not competing.
It’ll be a strange sight not to see the Paris 2024 Olympic silver medallist considering Jiaman has competed at every World Cup stage since Paris 2023 and has been China’s strongest recurve woman over the past 18 months.
Huang Yuwei is the only returning archer from Central Florida and Shanghai. She is joined by Hailigan, Bao Yijing and Yu Qi – the latter two are making their World Cup debuts in Antalya.
Who’s competing?
Three of last year’s individual winners in Antalya return to Türkiye to defend their titles next week:
- Recurve men: Kim Woojin, Korea
- Recurve women: Yang Xiaolei, China (not competing)
- Compound men: Mike Schloesser, Netherlands
- Compound women: Elisa Roner, Italy
These are the top-ranked archers competing in Antalya:
- 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 311 archers (100 recurve men, 90 recurve women, 68 compound men and 52 compound women) from the following 44 teams are registered to compete at the tournament:
AIN, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, China, Chinese Taipei, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Great Britain, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong China, India, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Korea, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Moldova, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan, and Yemen.
Competition in Antalya begins with compound qualifying on Wednesday morning.
