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RECORDS IN ARCHERY

Once upon a time, there was an archer …

In the year 1798, a long-distance bow-shooting competition was held in Turkey and was won by the Sultan Selim. He shot an arrow to a point 972 yards (888.8 meters) away.

How Sultan Selim has tricked people is often told on the quiet. The competition took place in Istanbul. One of the Sultan’s cousins stood – well hidden – along the route and is said to have shot a second arrow when the first one got out of sight. The 972 yards (888.8 meters) would therefore be shared between two shooters. Today, a monument marks the spot where the last arrow went down.

The attending British ambassador, who had testified to this event, was supposedly in that permanent state of inebriation, characteristic for British ambassadors, especially during colonial times.

This record was meanwhile broken many times. In the year 1992, the American Kevin Strother shot through the air with a high-tech bow. The arrow needed ten seconds before it hit the ground at a distance of 1320 yards (1207 meters).

But this is all surpassed by the distances ac...

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