Irans national horseback archery team has earned a total of eight medals in the 9th International Horseback Archery Championship in South Korea, and claimed the second place at the end of the major sporting event.The Iranian squad, comprised of Nafiseh Bakhtiari, Saeedeh Sadeqi-Afjeh, Qodratollah Geravand, Ahmad Kazemi, Ali Qourchian and Amir Hassan Mansouri, won four silver medals and four bronzes in both individual and team events.
Poland won the crown at the 9th International Horseback Archery Championship, and South Korea stood third after Iran.
A total of 53 athletes from Australia, China, Germany, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States took part in the competitions.
The 9th International Horseback Archery Championship started on October 1 in the South Korean city of Sokcho, and will finish on October 8.
A horse archer, also known as a horsed archer or mounted archer, is a cavalryman armed with a bow, able to shoot while riding from horseback.
Mounted archery was a defining characteristic of the Eurasians, including Iranians and Indians in antiquity, and by the Mongols and the Turkic people during the Middle Ages.
By the expansion of these peoples, the practice also spread to Eastern Europe as well as East Asia.
In East Asia, horse archery came to be particularly honored in the samurai tradition of Japan, where mounted archery is called Yabusame.
By Press TV
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