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Gwangju City News From the Gwangju Metropolitan City website (http://gwangju.go.kr)
MONTHLY NEWS
Gwangju City to Host 2025 World Archery Championships Gwangju City has finally been selected as the host city for the 2025 World Archery Championships. In an online briefing, Gwangju’s Mayor Lee Yong Sup stated, “As a result of the voting of the World Archery Federation Steering Committee held in Lausanne, Switzerland, Gwangju’s bid was confirmed with overwhelming support, beating out Madrid (population 3.22 million), a worldclass sports and tourism city.”
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January 2022
Gwangju City participated in a video conference before the steering committee vote and once again explained in detail the strengths of the city, including infrastructure such as transportation and stadiums, as well as the 1.5 million citizens’ desire to host the competition. The World Archery Federation Steering Committee highly praised Gwangju as a city that has successfully hosted the 2015 Summer Universiade Games and the Gwangju 2019 World Aquatics Championships, and as a city that has facilities such as the Gwangju International Archery Center maintained at international standards and that has produced six Olympic gold medalists. To convey the will and desire of the city’s 1.5 million citizens to the steering committee, Gwangju City diligently prepared materials for the bid in a strategic and systematic manner. Aiming to make a perfect presentation to the World Archery Federation’s team that visited Gwangju in November, the city meticulously showed preparations for a successful event by using cutting-edge IT technology in 3D via a drone filming of the stadium. Gwangju City has established a close-cooperation system with the city council and the Korea Archery Association since it officially announced the bid for hosting the 2025 World Archery Championships back in March 2021.
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Moreover, in August the Competition Bidding Committee was officially launched by Mayor Lee Yong Sup and Chung Eui-sun, chairman of the Korea Archery Association, who co-chaired the committee, composed of 97 members including officials from political, administrative, sports, and related institutions, which became the cornerstone of the successful bid for the competition. During the World Archery Federation’s on-site inspection in November, Gwangju Mayor Lee Yong Sup led the entire inspection process and directly introduced the stadium to the inspection team, in addition to planning and participating in the welcome and farewell events. The biannual World Archery Championship is the most prestigious international archery event, with a history of more than 90 years, and is the largest such event in which all national representatives of the world’s recurve and compound bows participate. The 52nd Gwangju competition in 2025 will be the third time for Korea to host the World Archery Championships, after the 33rd event in Seoul in 1985 and the 45th event in Ulsan in 2009. The 2025 World Archery Championships will be held for eight days, September 5–12, at the Gwangju International Archery Center and the Asia Culture Center with 1,100 athletes and executives from 90 countries participating. In addition, the World Archery Federation Steering Committee has confirmed Gwangju as the venue for the 2022 Hyundai Archery World Cup (with 45 countries participating) and the 2025 World Archery Federation General Assembly, which were originally scheduled to be held in Shanghai, China.
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