• Archery is open to athletes with a physical disabilityA Disability is generally a condition either caused by accident, trauma, genetics or disease, which may restrict a person's mental processes, senses or mobility..
• There are individual and team events, standing and wheelchairThis refers to a group of athletes with a disability who are eligible to compete in wheelchair events. Some of the conditions resulting in eligibility into wheelchair events are: paraplegia, quadriplegia, spina bifida, poliomyelitis, amputee, cerebral palsy. competitions.
• Archery reached a pinnacle in 1992 when ParalympianAn athlete who has competed or is competing at a Paralympic Games., Antonio Rebollo, ignited the Olympic and Paralympic flames in Barcelona.
• Archery became a Paralympic Games sport in Rome in 1960.

ClassificationAthletes are classified by classifiers into classes by their ability to function. The aim is to ensure that athletes of similar ability compete against one another.

• ARW1 - spinal cordcord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column. and cerebral palsyA disorder of movement and posture due to damage to an area of the brain that controls and coordinates muscle tone, reflexes, posture and movement. "Cerebral" mean brain-centred; "palsy" is a lack of muscle control. athletes with impairmentdisability in all four limbs
• ARW2 - wheelchair users with full arm movement
• ARST - (standing): athletes who have full movement in their arms but who have some disability in their legs. This group also includes amputees, les autresis French for 'others'. It is a term used to describe athletes with a range of conditions which result in locomotor disorders that do not fit the traditional classification systems of the established disability group, eg dwarfism, polio, MS and cerebral palsy standing athletes