World Archery Rankings

The World Archery Rankings is a ranking system developed by the World Archery Federation for international competitive archery. It is calculated using a points system and published following major World Archery tournaments.

The ranking system was first developed in 2001, and calculation method updated in 2010. At present, rankings are maintained for:

• Recurve archery: Men's Individual, Women's Individual, Men's Team, Women's Team, Mixed Team
• Compound archery: Men's Individual, Women's Individual, Men's Team, Women's Team, Mixed Team
• Para-archery: Recurve Men W2, Recurve Men Standing, Compound Men W1, Compound Men Open, Recurve Women W2, Recurve Women Standing, Compound Women Open, Visually Impaired Open
• Nations: National rankings based on all disciplines

From 2006, rankings were calculated for Field Archery, but since 2012 are no longer maintained.^[1]

Calculation

Each archer or team earns a ranking score for each competition. The ranking scores are calculated through a combination of the ranking factor of the tournament ("Ranking Factor") and points based on the competitor's final position in the competition ("Ranking Score"). The archer's four highest ranking scores are then combined to form their total score ("Added Ranking Score"), which forms the basis of the ranking list.^[2]

Ranking Factor

Only results achieved at official ranking events can count towards the overall rankings. These events include the major World Archery Federation tournaments (Olympics, World Archery Championships, World Cup), and other international, regional and national events that have applied and been approved for ranking status.

The tournament ranking factor is calculated on the basis of three sub-factors, Quality, Quantity and Period, which are multiplied together to produce the overall tournament factor. The factor can vary between disciplines at the same event (e.g., the recurve and compound disciplines at the World Championships may have different Ranking Factors).

For instance, the Ranking Factor of a tournament for individuals with 60 archers, of whom 10 are in the top 50, that took place 18 months ago, would be:

2.5 ("Quality": 9-12 top 50 archers) x

0.9 ("Quantity": 33-64 archers) x

0.5 ("Period": other tournament 12-24 months ago) =

1.125

Quality

The Quality sub-factor takes into account the level of competition at the tournament. A score is assigned based on the prestige of the event, for the major World Archery Federation tournaments, and the number of top archers or teams at other competitions (defined as individuals ranked in the top 50 or teams ranked in the top 16). The quality factor points are assigned as follows:

Individual Tournament Number of points Olympics 5 World Archery Championships 5 World Cup (excl. World Cup Finals) 4.5 Competition with more than 20 top archers 4 Competition with 17-20 top archers 3.5 Competition with 13-16 top archers 3 Competition with 9-12 top archers 2.5 Competition with 5-8 top archers 2 Competition with 1-4 top archers 1.5 Competition with no top archers 1

Team Tournament Number of points Olympics 5 World Archery Championships 5 World Cup (excl. World Cup Finals) 4.5 Competition with more than 10 top teams 4 Competition with 9-10 top teams 3.5 Competition with 7-8 top teams 3 Competition with 5-6 top teams 2.5 Competition with 3-4 top teams 2 Competition with 1-2 top teams 1.5 Competition with no top teams 1

Quantity

The Quantity sub-factor assigns a score based on the number of archers competing as follows:

Individual Number of archers Number of points More than 64 (including Olympics) 1 33-64 0.9 17-32 0.8 9-16 0.7 Fewer than 9, with a Quality factor of 1.5 or more (ie, with at least 1 top 50 archer) 0.5 Fewer than 9, with a Quality factor of 1 (ie, with no top 50 archers) 0

Team Number of teams Number of points More than 16 (including Olympics) 1 13-15 0.9 9-12 0.8 5-8 0.7 4 0.5 Fewer than 4 0

Period

The Period sub-factor is dependent on when the competition took place, allowing the Ranking Factor to emphasise the most recent tournaments as follows:

Tournament	Period	Points
Olympics	Up to 12 months after the tournament	1
	12–24 months after the tournament	0.8
	More than 24 months after the tournament	0
World Archery Championships	Up to 12 months after the tournament	1
	After 12 months until the next tournament	0.8
	After the next tournament	0
Continental Championships	Up to 12 months after the tournament	1
	After 12 months until the next tournament	0.8
	After the next tournament	0
Other tournaments	Up to 12 months after the tournament	1
	12–24 months after the tournament	0.5
	More than 24 months after the tournament	0

Ranking Points

Ranking Points are awarded based on the team or competitor's final position at the competition. This is then multiplied by the Ranking Factor to produce the overall Ranking Score for that team or competitor at that tournament. For instance, an archer who finished 4th in the competition used in the example above would receive the following Ranking Score:

1.125 ("Ranking Factor") x

12 ("Ranking Points": 4th place) =

13.5

A team or competitor's best four Ranking Scores are then combined to produce the Added Ranking Score, which forms the basis of the rankings list. No more than two Ranking Scores whose period factor is lower than 1 may be used to calculate the Added Ranking Score.

Ranking Points are awarded as follows:

Individual Final position Number of points 1 20 2 17 3 14 4 12 5 10 6 9.5 7 9 8 8.5 9-16 (i.e., all losing quarter finalists) 7 17-32 (i.e., all losing 1/8 finalists) 4

Team Final position Number of points 1 25 2 21 3 18 4 15 5 13 6 12 7 11 8 10 9-16 (i.e., all losing quarter finalists) 8

Current Rankings

• ^o: Current Olympic champion (Compound discipline and mixed team events are not competed at the Olympics)
• ^wc: Current World champion
• ^cup: Current World Cup winner (Team events, apart from mixed team, are not competed at the World Cup final)

Recurve

Men's individual recurve Rankings at 12 April 2015 Change Pos Athlete Points[3] 1.  Rick van der Ven (NED) 261.000 2.  Lee Seung-yun (KOR) wc 246.500 3.  Florian Kahllund (GER) 235.500 4.  Oh Jin-hyek (KOR) o 234.500 5.  Brady Ellison (USA) cup 222.500 6.  Marcus D'Almeida (BRA) 213.750 7.  Pierre Plihon (FRA) 188.250 8.  Crispin Duenas (CAN) 182.500 9.  Ku Bon-chan (KOR) 170.280 =10.  Hideki Kikuchi (JPN) 162.000 =10.  Mauro Nespoli (ITA) 162.000 12.  Jean-Charles Valladont (FRA) 161.500 13.  Jake Kaminski (USA) 153.000 14.  Dai Xiaoxiang (CHN) 149.250 15.  Khairul Anuar Mohamad (MAS) 145.000 16.  Luis Álvarez (MEX) 130.250 17.  Takaharu Furukawa (JPN) 125.800 18.  Juan Rene Serrano (MEX) 121.650 19.  Taylor Worth (AUS) 117.750 20.  Kim Woo-jin (KOR) 110.250		Women's individual recurve Rankings at 12 April 2015 Change Pos Athlete Points[4] 1.  Xu Jing (CHN) 284.000 2.  Aída Román (MEX) cup 219.500 3.  Jung Dasomi (KOR) 213.250 4.  Cheng Ming (CHN) 212.500 5.  Tatiana Segina (RUS) 206.250 6.  Yun Ok-hee (KOR) 191.000 7.  Maja Jager (DEN) wc 186.500 8.  Chang Hye-jin (KOR) 182.500 9.  Elena Richter (GER) 174.000 10.  Joo Hyun-jung (KOR) 171.000 11.  Deepika Kumari (IND) 160.875 12.  Lisa Unruh (GER) 160.500 13.  Karina Winter (GER) 159.750 14.  Inna Stepanova (RUS) 146.000 15.  Khatuna Lorig (USA) 141.000 16.  Natalia Sánchez (COL) 134.650 17.  Guendalina Sartori (ITA) 131.500 18.  Tan Ya-ting (TPE) 131.000 19.  Alejandra Valencia (MEX) 126.500 20.  Ki Bo-bae (KOR) o 125.500

Men's team recurve Rankings at 12 April 2015 Change Pos Nation Points[5] 1. South Korea 348.000 2. Japan 293.250 3. China 290.000 4. Russia 287.500 5. Netherlands 282.000 6. Mexico 279.250 7. United States wc 277.750 8. France 276.500 9. India 276.000 10. Malaysia 243.000 Olympic champions (o) are Italy (ranked 11)		Women's team recurve Rankings at 12 April 2015 Change Pos Nation Points[6] 1. China 391.050 2. South Korea o/wc 357.400 3. Germany 288.750 4. Mexico 273.750 5. India 263.250 6. Japan 261.900 7. Russia 248.100 8. Chinese Taipei 236.100 9. France 222.400 10. Georgia 206.000		Mixed team recurve Rankings at 12 April 2015 Change Pos Nation Points[7] 1. South Korea wc 393.500 2. Mexico cup 358.500 3. India 319.000 4. United States 306.750 5. Russia 272.000 6. China 261.000 7. Great Britain 244.000 8. Chinese Taipei 232.000 9. Italy 227.500 10. Germany 220.500

Compound

Men's individual compound Rankings at 12 April 2015 Change Pos Athlete Points[8] 1.  Pierre Julien Deloche (FRA) 302.000 2.  Reo Wilde (USA) 238.550 3.  Peter Elzinga (NED) 238.500 4.  Bridger Deaton (USA) cup 231.975 5.  Sebastien Peineau (FRA) 207.450 6.  Mike Schloesser (NED) wc 202.850 7.  Sergio Pagni (ITA) 177.300 8.  Alexander Dambaev (RUS) 175.700 9.  Rajat Chauhan (IND) 170.350 10.  Choi Yong-hee (KOR) 161.100 11.  Martin Damsbo (DEN) 159.525 12.  Braden Gellenthien (USA) 155.250 13.  Daniel Munoz (COL) 143.850 14.  Roberto Hernandez (ESA) 141.000 15.  Demir Elmaagacli (TUR) 128.700 16.  Julio Ricardo Fierro (MEX) 128.500 17.  Min Li-hong (KOR) 123.750 18.  Patrick Laursen (DEN) 120.925 19.  Rodger Willett, Jr (USA) 119.413 20.  Stephan Hansen (DEN) 118.000		Women's individual compound Rankings at 12 April 2015 Change Pos Athlete Points[9] 1.  Sara López (COL) cup 268.200 2.  Erika Jones (USA) 245.975 3.  Natalia Avdeeva (RUS) 214.425 4.  Albina Loginova (RUS) 182.250 5.  Alejandra Usquiano (COL) 182.200 6.  Toja Cerne (SLO) 179.550 7.  Choi Bo-min (KOR) 172.500 8.  Ivana Buden (CRO) 164.825 9.  Kristina Heigenhauser (GER) wc 154.200 10.  Linda Ochoa (MEX) 145.375 11.  Seok Ji-Hyun (KOR) 140.925 12.  Cansu Ecem Coskun (TUR) 139.500 13.  Marcella Tonioli (ITA) 137.200 14.  Inge van Caspel (NED) 135.100 15.  Laura Longo (ITA) 126.450 16.  Fatimah Almashhadani (IRQ) 116.700 17.  Purvasha Sudhir Shende (IND) 113.150 18.  Svetlana Cherkashneva (RUS) 111.400 19.  Yesim Bostan (TUR) 110.550 20.  Maja Orlic (CRO) 108.375

Men's team compound Rankings at 12 April 2015 Change Pos Nation Points[10] 1. United States 353.250 2. Netherlands 317.700 3. Denmark wc 282.250 4. Italy 267.300 5. Mexico 247.500 6. South Korea 227.400 7. France 214.200 8. India 193.950 9. Turkey 185.400 10. Russia 184.900		Women's team compound Rankings at 12 April 2015 Change Pos Nation Points[11] 1. United States 355.050 2. Colombia wc 293.050 3. Russia 283.300 4. Mexico 239.550 5. South Korea 214.350 6. India 209.700 7. Italy 207.225 8. Great Britain 194.400 9. Netherlands 194.000 10. Chinese Taipei 187.800		Mixed team compound Rankings at 12 April 2015 Change Pos Nation Points[12] 1. United States cup 351.900 2. Russia 324.600 3. France 296.250 4. South Korea 285.025 5. India 280.500 6. Italy wc 279.550 7. Netherlands 256.050 8. Colombia 242.550 9. Belgium 235.800 10. Denmark 220.750

Number one ranked archers

Number one ranked archers by time

The following is a list of archers ranked by time spent ranked as the number one archer in their individual categories:

Updated 27 April 2015

Key

     Recurve archer
     Compound archer

Pos	Archer	Category	Days
1.	Park Sung-hyun (KOR)	Women's recurve	1,264
2.	Yun Ok-hee (KOR)	Women's recurve	1,195
3.	Reo Wilde (USA)	Men's compound	776
4.	Braden Gellenthien (USA)	Men's compound	733
5.	Erika Jones (USA)	Women's compound	722
6.	Sergio Pagni (ITA)	Men's compound	710
7.	Brady Ellison (USA)	Men's recurve	652
8.	Marco Galiazzo (ITA)	Men's recurve	637
9.	Im Dong-hyun (KOR)	Men's recurve	622
10.	Dejan Sitar (SLO)	Men's compound	609
11.	Baljinima Tsyrempilov (RUS)	Men's recurve	594
12.	Ki Bo-bae (KOR)	Women's recurve	571
13.	Pierre Julien Deloche (FRA)	Men's compound	567
14.	Albina Loginova (RUS)	Women's compound	529
15.	Michele Frangilli (ITA)	Men's recurve	468
16.	Lee Sung-jin (ITA)	Women's recurve	466
17.	Viktor Ruban (UKR)	Men's recurve	461
18.	Oh Jin-hyek (KOR)	Men's recurve	439
19.	Sofia Goncharova (RUS)	Women's compound	386
20.	Jamie van Natta (USA)	Women's compound	385
21.	Peter Elzinga (NED)	Men's compound	384
22.	Yun Mi-jin (KOR)	Women's recurve	366
23.	Morgan Lundin (SWE)	Men's compound	361
24.	Irma Luyting (NED)	Women's compound	356
25.	Rodger Willett, Jr (USA)	Men's compound	348
26.	Valerie Fabre (FRA)	Women's compound	345
27.	Mary Zorn (USA)	Women's compound	343
28.	Louise Hauge (DEN)	Women's compound	326
29.	Camilla Soemod (DEN)	Women's compound	300
30.	Lee Seung-yun (KOR)	Men's recurve	286
31.	Anna Kazantseva (RUS)	Women's compound	284
32.	Park Kyung-mo (KOR)	Men's recurve	282
33.	Fred van Zutphen (NED)	Men's compound	274
34.	Nicky Hunt (GBR)	Women's compound	262
35.	Xu Jing (CHN)	Women's recurve	259
36.	Lionel Torres (FRA)	Men's recurve	246
37.	Sara López (COL)	Women's compound	245
38.	Qian Jialing (CHN)	Women's recurve	237
39.	Jung Dasomi (KOR)	Women's recurve	229
40.	Natalia Valeeva (ITA)	Women's recurve	212
41.	Dave Cousins (USA)	Men's compound	163
42.	Petra Dortmund (GER)	Women's compound	150
43.	Sirkka Sokka-Matikainen (FIN)	Women's compound	134
44.	Joo Hyun-jung (KOR)	Women's recurve	122
45.	Hiroshi Yamamoto (JPN)	Men's recurve	121
46.	Wietse van Alten (NED)	Men's recurve	96
47.	Jorge Jimenez (ESA)	Men's compound	92
48.	Petra Goebel (AUT)	Women's compound	62
49.	Deepika Kumari (IND)	Women's recurve	61
50.	Bettina Thiele (GER)	Women's compound	59
51.	Luzmary Guedez (VEN)	Women's compound	48
52.	Kim Woo-jin (KOR)	Men's recurve	47
53.	Amandine Bouillot (FRA)	Women's compound	42
54.	Ilario di Buo (ITA)	Men's recurve	37
55.	Natalia Erdyniyeva (RUS)	Women's recurve	35
56.	Rick van der Ven (NED)	Men's recurve	29
57.	Ashley Wallace (CAN)	Women's compound	25
58.	Ivana Buden (CRO)	Women's compound	14

Number one archers by date

The following archers have achieved the number one individual position since the inception of the rankings in 2001:

Recurve

Men # Player Date reached Total days 0 !a !a August 1, 2001 -9999 0 | 1  Michele Frangilli (ITA) August 1, 2001 61 2  Baljinima Tsyrempilov (RUS) October 1, 2001 242 3  Lionel Torres (FRA) 31 May 2002 246  Michele Frangilli (ITA) (2) February 1, 2003 113 4  Ilario di Buo (ITA) May 25, 2003 37 5  Wietse van Alten (NED) July 1, 2003 62  Michele Frangilli (ITA) (3) September 1, 2003 252  Wietse van Alten (NED) (2) 10 May, 2004 22 6  Im Dong-Hyun (KOR) June 1, 2004 49  Michele Frangilli (ITA) (4) July 20, 2004 31  Wietse van Alten (NED) (3) August 20, 2004 12 7  Marco Galiazzo (ITA) September 1, 2004 292  Michele Frangilli (ITA) (5) June 20, 2005 11  Marco Galiazzo (ITA) (2) July 1, 2005 345 8  Hiroshi Yamamoto (JPN) June 11, 2006 121 9  Park Kyung-Mo (KOR) October 10, 2006 265  Baljinima Tsyrempilov (RUS) (2) July 2, 2007 352  Im Dong-Hyun (KOR) (2) June 18, 2008 311  Park Kyung-Mo (KOR) (2) April 25, 2009 17 10  Viktor Ruban (UKR) May 12, 2009 461 11  Brady Ellison (USA) August 16, 2010 25  Im Dong-Hyun (KOR) (3) September 10, 2010 262 12  Kim Woo-Jin (KOR) May 30, 2011 20  Brady Ellison (USA) (2) June 19, 2011 25  Kim Woo-Jin (KOR) (2) July 14, 2011 27  Brady Ellison (USA) (3) August 10, 2011 602 13  Oh Jin-Hyek (KOR) April 3, 2013 439 14  Lee Seung-Yun (KOR) June 16, 2014 286 15  Rick van der Ven (NED) March 29, 2015 29 Last update: 27 April 2015

Women # Player Date reached Total days 0 !a !a August 1, 2001 -9999 0 | 1  Natalia Valeeva (ITA) August 1, 2001 61 2  Park Sung-Hyun (KOR) October 1, 2001 638  Natalia Valeeva (ITA) (2) 1 July 2003 62 3  Yun Mi-Jin (KOR) September 1, 2003 366  Park Sung-Hyun (KOR) (2) September 1, 2004 303 4  Lee Sung-Jin (KOR) July 1, 2005 466 5  Qian Jialing (CHN) October 10, 2006 237 6  Yun Ok-Hee (KOR) June 4, 2007 50 7  Natalia Erdyniyeva (RUS) July 24, 2007 35  Park Sung-Hyun (KOR) (3) August 28, 2007 227  Natalia Valeeva (ITA) (3) 11 April 2008 89  Yun Ok-Hee (KOR) (2) July 9, 2008 290  Park Sung-Hyun (KOR) (4) April 25, 2009 96  Yun Ok-Hee (KOR) (3) July 30, 2009 382 8  Joo Hyun-Jung (KOR) August 16, 2010 122  Yun Ok-Hee (KOR) (4) December 16, 2010 165 9  Ki Bo-Bae (KOR) May 30, 2011 93 10  Jung Dasomi (KOR) August 31, 2011 229  Ki Bo-Bae (KOR) (2) April 16, 2012 59 11  Deepika Kumari (IND) 14 June 2012 61  Ki Bo-Bae (KOR) (3) August 14, 2012 419  Yun Ok-Hee (KOR) (5) October 7, 2013 308 12  Xu Jing (CHN) August 11, 2014 259 Last update: 27 April 2015

Compound

Men # Player Date reached Total days 0 !a !a August 1, 2001 -9999 0 | 1  Dave Cousins (USA) August 1, 2001 152 2  Dejan Sitar (SLO) December 31, 2001 609 3  Fred van Zutphen (NED) September 1, 2003 274 4  Peter Elzinga (NED) June 1, 2004 384  Dave Cousins (USA) (2) June 20, 2005 11 5  Morgan Lundin (SWE) July 1, 2005 361 6  Reo Wilde (USA) June 27, 2006 300 7  Jorge Jimenez (ESA) April 23, 2007 92 8  Braden Gellenthien (USA) July 24, 2007 330 9  Sergio Pagni (ITA) June 18, 2008 311  Braden Gellenthien (USA) (2) April 25, 2009 17  Sergio Pagni (ITA) (2) May 12, 2009 31  Braden Gellenthien (USA) (3) June 12, 2009 62  Sergio Pagni (ITA) (3) August 13, 2009 368  Braden Gellenthien (USA) (4) August 16, 2010 287 10  Rodger Willett, Jr (USA) May 30, 2011 348  Reo Wilde (USA) (2) May 12, 2012 423  Braden Gellenthien (USA) (5) July 9, 2013 37  Reo Wilde (USA) (3) August 15, 2013 53 11  Pierre Julien Deloche (FRA) October 7, 2013 567 Last update: 27 April 2015

Women # Player Date reached Total days 0 !a !a August 1, 2001 -9999 0 | 1  Irma Luyting (NED) August 1, 2001 356 2  Bettina Thiele (GER) July 23, 2002 59 3  Sirkka Sokka-Matikainen (FIN) September 20, 2002 134 4  Petra Dortmund (GER) February 1, 2003 150 5  Petra Goebel (AUT) July 1, 2003 62 6  Mary Zorn (USA) September 1, 2003 313 7  Louise Hauge (DEN) July 10, 2004 326  Mary Zorn (USA) (2) June 1, 2005 30 8  Valerie Fabre (FRA) July 1, 2005 345 9  Sofia Goncharova (RUS) June 11, 2006 386 10  Anna Kazantseva (RUS) July 2, 2007 284 11  Jamie van Natta (USA) April 11, 2008 26 12  Amandine Bouillot (FRA) May 7, 2008 42  Jamie van Natta (USA) (2) 18 June 2008 359 13  Luzmary Guedez (VEN) June 12, 2009 48 14  Ivana Buden (CRO) July 30, 2009 14 15  Camilla Soemod (DEN) August 13, 2009 300 16  Albina Loginova (RUS) June 9, 2010 68 17  Ashley Wallace (CAN) August 16, 2010 25 18  Nicky Hunt (GBR) September 10, 2010 262 19  Erika Anschutz (USA) May 30, 2011 20  Albina Loginova (RUS) (2) June 19, 2011 25  Erika Anschutz (USA) (2) July 14, 2011 303  Albina Loginova (RUS) (3) May 12, 2012 449  Erika Jones (USA) (3) July 22, 2013 399 20  Sara López (COL) August 25, 2014 245 Last update: 27 April 2015

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