World Archery Championships
The World Archery Championships are a series of competitions in Archery organised by the World Archery Federation. They first competition held under that title took place in 1931.
Competition archery takes a wide variety of formats, but the title World Championships is commonly reserved for the following three events:
- Outdoor World Championships in target Archery
- Indoor World Championships in target Archery
- World Championships in field Archery.
Although less widely recognised, World Championship events are also held in Youth archery, Para-archery, University archery and 3D archery. A ski archery World Championships was last held in 2007, but is not part of the current rotation. Following the accession of archery to permanent sports at the Summer Universiade, the University world championships will also cease to be part of the World Archery Championships rotation in 2014.
World Archery Championships Events
| Number | Events | First | Last |
| 1 | World Outdoor Target Championships | 1931 | 2019 |
| 2 | World Indoor Target Championships | 1991 | 2018 |
| 3 | World Field Archery Championships | 1969 | 2018 |
| 4 | World 3D Archery Championships | 2003 | 2019 |
| 5 | World Ski Archery Championships | 1999 | 2017 |
| 6 | World Para Archery Championships | 1998 | 2019 |
| 7 | World Youth Archery Championships | 1991 | 2019 |
| 8 | World University Archery Championships | 1996 | 2016 |
And for the divisions as defined in their respective chapters:
- World Archery Flight Championships;
- World Archery Ski Championships;
- World Archery Run Championships.
- https://rulebook.worldarchery.org/PDF/Official/2019-04-01/EN-Book2.pdf
- https://worldarchery.org/rulebook/article/8
Outdoor
| Number | Year | Location | Events |
| 1 | 1931 |  Lwów | 2 |
| 2 | 1932 | Warsaw | 2 |
| 3 | 1933 |  London | 4 |
| 4 | 1934 |  Båstad | 4 |
| 5 | 1935 |  Brussels | 4 |
| 6 | 1936 |  Prague | 4 |
| 7 | 1937 |  Paris | 4 |
| 8 | 1938 | London | 4 |
| 9 | 1939 |  Oslo | 4 |
| 10 | 1946 | Stockholm | 4 |
| 11 | 1947 | Prague | 4 |
| 12 | 1948 | London | 4 |
| 13 | 1949 | Paris | 4 |
| 14 | 1950 |  Copenhagen | 4 |
| 15 | 1952 | Brussels | 4 |
| 16 | 1954 | Oslo | 4 |
| 17 | 1955 |  Helsinki | 4 |
| 18 | 1957 | Prague | 4 |
| 19 | 1958 | Brussels | 4 |
| 20 | 1959 | Stockholm | 4 |
| 21 | 1961 | Oslo | 4 |
| 22 | 1963 | Helsinki | 4 |
| 23 | 1965 | Västerås | 4 |
| 24 | 1967 |  Amersfoort | 4 |
| 25 | 1969 |  Valley Forge | 4 |
| 26 | 1971 | York | 4 |
| 27 | 1973 | Grenoble | 4 |
| 28 | 1975 |  Interlaken | 4 |
| 29 | 1977 |  Canberra | 4 |
| 30 | 1979 |  West Berlin | 4 |
| 31 | 1981 |  Punta Ala | 4 |
| 32 | 1983 | Los Angeles | 4 |
| 33 | 1985 |  Seoul | 4 |
| 34 | 1987 | Adelaide | 4 |
| 35 | 1989 | Lausanne | 4 |
| 36 | 1991 |  Kraków | 4 |
| 37 | 1993 |  Antalya | 4 |
| 38 | 1995 |  Jakarta | 8 |
| 39 | 1997 |  Victoria | 8 |
| 40 | 1999 | Riom | 8 |
| 41 | 2001 |  Beijing | 8 |
| 42 | 2003 | New York | 8 |
| 43 | 2005 |  Madrid | 8 |
| 44 | 2007 |  Leipzig | 8 |
| 45 | 2009 |  Ulsan | 8 |
| 46 | 2011 | Turin | 10 |
| 47 | 2013 | Belek | 10 |
| 48 | 2015 | Copenhagen | 10 |
| 49 | 2017 |  Mexico City | 10 |
| 50 | 2019 | 's-Hertogenbosch | 10 |
| 51 | 2021 | Yankton | 10 |
| 52 | 2023 | Berlin | 10 |
Indoor
| Number | Year | Location | Events |
| 1 | 1991 | Oulu | 4 |
| 2 | 1993 | Perpignan | 4 |
| 3 | 1995 |  Birmingham | 8 |
| 4 | 1997 | Istanbul | 8 |
| 5 | 1999 |  Havana | 8 |
| 6 | 2001 | Florence | 8 |
| 7 | 2003 | Nîmes | 8 |
| 8 | 2005 | Aalborg | 8 |
| 9 | 2007 | Izmir | 16 |
| 10 | 2009 | Rzeszów | 16 |
| 11 | 2012 | Las Vegas | 16 |
| 12 | 2014 | Nîmes | 16 |
| 13 | 2016 | Ankara | 16 |
| 14 | 2018 | Yankton | 16 |
Field
| Number | Year | Location | Events |
| 1 | 1969 | Valley Forge | |
| 2 | 1971 | Cardiff | |
| 3 | 1972 | Gorizia | |
| 4 | 1974 |  Zagreb | |
| 5 | 1976 | Molndal | |
| 6 | 1978 | Geneva | |
| 7 | 1980 |  Palmerston North | |
| 8 | 1982 | Kingsclere | |
| 9 | 1984 | Hyvinkää | |
| 10 | 1986 |  Radstadt | |
| 11 | 1988 | Bolzano | |
| 12 | 1990 | Loen | |
| 13 | 1992 | Margraten | |
| 14 | 1994 | Vertus | |
| 15 | 1996 |  Kranjska Gora | |
| 16 | 1998 | Obergurgl | |
| 17 | 2000 | Cortina | |
| 18 | 2002 | Canberra | |
| 19 | 2004 |  Plitvice | |
| 20 | 2006 | Gothenburg | |
| 21 | 2008 | Llwynypia | |
| 22 | 2010 |  Visegrád | |
| 23 | 2012 | Val d'Isère | |
| 24 | 2014 | Zagreb | |
| 25 | 2016 |  Dublin | |
| 26 | 2018 | Cortina | |
| 27 | 2021 | Yankton |
3D
| Number | Year | Location | Events |
| 1 | 2003 | Sully-sur-Loire | 8 |
| 2 | 2005 |  Genoa | 8 |
| 3 | 2007 | Sopron | 10 |
| 4 | 2009 | Latina | 10 |
| 5 | 2011 | Donnersbach | 10 |
| 6 | 2013 | Sassari | 10 |
| 7 | 2015 | Terni | 10 |
| 8 | 2017 | Avignon | 10 |
| 9 | 2019 | Lac la Biche | 10 |
Ski Archery
The 8th Ski Archery World Championships held in Moscow in Russia in 2013.| Number | Year | Location | Events |
| 1 | 1999 | - | |
| 2 | 2000 | - | |
| 3 | 2001 | - | |
| 4 | 2005 | ||
| 5 | 2007 | ||
| 6 | 2009 | ||
| 7 | 2011 | ||
| 8 | 2013 |  Moscow | |
| 9 | 2015 | ||
| 10 | 2017 |
Para
| Number | Year | Location | Events |
| 1 | 1998 | Stoke Mandeville | |
| 2 | 1999 | Christchurch | |
| 3 | 2001 |  Nymburk | |
| 4 | 2003 | Madrid | |
| 5 | 2005 | Massa Carrara | |
| 6 | 2007 | Cheongju | |
| 7 | 2009 | Nymburk | |
| 8 | 2011 | Turin | |
| 9 | 2013 |  Bangkok | |
| 10 | 2015 | Donaueslign | |
| 11 | 2017 | Beijing | |
| 12 | 2019 | Hertogenbosch |
- https://www.ianseo.net/Details.php?toId=818 - 2015
- http://ianseo.net/Details.php?toId=2040 - 2017
Youth
| Number | Year | Location | Events |
| 1 | 1991 | Sandefjord | |
| 2 | 1993 | Moliets | |
| 3 | 1994 | Roncegno | |
| 4 | 1996 | Chula Vista | |
| 5 | 1998 | Sunne | |
| 6 | 2000 | Belfort | |
| 7 | 2002 | Nymburk | |
| 8 | 2004 |  Lilleshall | |
| 9 | 2006 | Mérida | |
| 10 | 2008 | Antalya | |
| 11 | 2009 | Ogden | |
| 12 | 2011 | Legnica | |
| 13 | 2013 | Wuxi | |
| 14 | 2015 | Yankton | |
| 15 | 2017 |  Rosario | |
| 16 | 2019 |  Madrid |