Rounds & Age Divisions

Archery Australia specifies that all age divisions can shoot all rounds at any time for their score to be eligible for the Archery Australia classification scheme (with some caveats – see the Classifications page BUT, if you want your score to be eligible for certain awards and ranking purposes you must shoot the correct round for your division at official tournaments and QREs.
This is does not mean that you can’t shoot other rounds at a tournament or QRE if you prefer. It just means that your score would only be eligible for the Archery Australia classification scheme, not the awards or your Australian National ranking. 

A Short Range event will shoot the Canberra rounds. Note that a Canberra is also called a WA 60/900.

Championship events in Australia shoot 1440 rounds – which are 144 arrow rounds shot at 4 distances in 36 arrow sets. Check this list of all Australian Archery Rounds for full descriptions.

To be eligible for records in these events, you must shoot in your:

• AGE DIVISION: see section below

• GENDER

• BOW TYPE: You will only be ranked against others shooting your bow type. These are:

  • Recurve freestyle: a recurve bow with a sight

  • Compound freestyle: a compound bow with a sight

  • Barebow: a compound or recurve bow without a sight

  • Longbow: the traditional longbow

This is does not mean that you can’t shoot other rounds if you prefer. It just means that your score would only be eligible for the Archery Australia classification scheme, not any records.

This link shows a list of archery rounds that an archer in any given class (gender + bow type) and division (age) must shoot in a Short Range or Championship to qualify for a record.