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An Olympic archery target is 122 cm wide

Archers shoot at it from 70 metres and score across ten rings The target face is divided into five colour bands, each split into two rings, with the inner ten known as the X ring. An arrow scores the value of the ring its shaft breaks. At the Games only recurve bows are used, and the target is 122 centimetres across. 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?: Archers shoot at it from 70 metres and score across ten rings. 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.