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Seoul introduced men's and women's team competitions alongside the individual. The figure is taken from World Archery, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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Olympic archery added a team event in 1988

Seoul introduced men's and women's team competitions alongside the individual Archery had been on the early modern Olympic programme and returned in 1972. The team event uses three archers per side, each shooting a set number of arrows. A mixed team event was added for Tokyo in 2021. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Seoul introduced men's and women's team competitions alongside the individual. The figure is taken from World Archery, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.