Archery Canada supports teams across many international event, within various disciplines. This page provides the most up to date selection addendums and criteria for archers interested in pursuing National Team selection. The High Performance Committee establishes selection criteria governing the composition and selection of teams that will represent Canada in international competition. The goal of the team selection Policies are to outline a clear, fair and transparent process to select archers to their discipline specific. Target teams that will represent Canada at international competitions.
AC is committed to selecting those athletes to represent Canada, who are best qualified to support the strategic goals and objectives of AC’s high performance program. The goals and objectives of AC may change depending on the event for which selection takes place (e.g. major event such as World Championships and multi-sport games or an event targeted at athlete development). Such Goals and Objectives are described in the Addendum related to a particular event.
Recurve Teams:
2026 World Cup's, Pan Am Championships - Event Selection Procedures
The process to nominate athletes for 2026 events is available through the link below:
Any questions, or areas for clarification, please contact the High Performance Manager at: kcawley@archerycanada.ca
2026 Youth Olympic Games - Dakar Senegal
Below is the Internal Nomination Procedure, ratified by the Canadian Olympic Committee, that will outline the process in which Archery Canada can select and nominated (1) Male and (1) Female U18 athlete for the Youth Olympic Games.
Archery at the Youth Olympic Games will be held in Dakar, Senegal from Nov. 6-10 2026
2027 Senior Recurve Team - International Event Selection Policies
The process in which athletes will be selected and/or nominated for identified events in 2027 is available below, alongside the Expression of Interest form, and Selection Long List.
- 2027 International Event Selection Policy – Recurve Teams
- Expression of Interest Form
- Athlete Long List
The Internal Nomination Procedure (INP), for the 2027 Lima Pan American Games is in the final stages of review, and will be published by the end of July 2027.
Compound Teams:
2027 Senior Compound Teams - Events
The Selection Process for Compound Athletes for 2027 events can be found here: 2027 Compound Team: Event Selection.
Athlete Long List: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTM-ONyKchP5fwl0obBeE3xeV_IrS9FIUna5i18AXfDB9sFxDU5uRj-5AKfa8_yMk688oAEQcMdFbnO/pubhtml
Please note: The 2027 Pan American Games requires athlete nominations directly through the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), as athletes will be named as part of Team Canada. Therefore, it is not included in the general Selection Process linked above.
Instead, athletes will be selected via an Internal Nomination Procedure (INP), which must be approved by both the COC and the Archery Canada Board of Directors. This process will be posted when available.
Para Archery Teams
2026 Para World Series and Para Pan Ams - Event Specific Procedures
The process to select and nominate athletes to the identified 2026 Para World Series events and the Para Pan Am Championships is available below. If any questions please contact Archery Canada’s High Performance Manager at: kcawley@archerycanada.ca
2027 Para Archery Teams - High Performance and Development
The process to select and nominate athletes to the 2027 Paralympic High Performance or Development teams is available below. If any questions, please contact Archery Canada’s High Performance Manager at: kcawley@archerycanada.ca
