Archery GB submits proposal for inclusion in 2022 CWG

Archery Great Britain Thursday said it has delivered a proposal for archery's inclusion in the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games as an additional optional sport, fuelling hopes of its inclusion at the quadrennial event after a gap of 12 years.

Archery last featured at the CWG 2010 in New Delhi where India's Deepika Kumari clinched twin gold medals in the women's recurve individual and team event.

Archery GB was joined by representatives from World Archery and Archery England to present a vision that would broaden the diversity of the sport programme at the Games and provide exciting opportunities for the growth of archery across the Commonwealth.

Hailing the move, Deepika said: "It's an exciting news for the sport. The archers will be more motivated to perform. It will give us more opportunity to earn medals for the country."
"Many of our fellow sportpersons were asking 'why we're not going'... It was a sad thing to explain them that archery was no more part of the CWG."