Welcome to the Oceania Challenge 2026.

The Oceania Challenge Competition is coming up in April/May. This is a 'postal' shoot, where we shoot the round at our home club (Illawarra Archers) and then the recorder submits our scores to the WA people.

Please read the guidelines for all information.

Rounds:

The standard round is a Canberra round. We have 2 Canberra rounds in our club competitions in each of April and May. (April 4, April 25, May 9, May 30)

For all rounds archers will shoot 5 ends of 6 arrows at each of the three distances on a 122cm face. Each end is allowed a maximum of 4 minutes = 40 seconds per arrow.

Short Round: Junior Canberra (for people shooting Recurve, Compound or Barebow/Longbow who have been in archery for 12 months or less or have never shot further than 40m):

30 arrows shot from each of the 40m, 30m, 20m distances on a 122cm target face.

Medium Round: Short Canberra (for people shooting Recurve, Compound or Barebow/Longbow who haven been in archery for 12 months or less or have never shot further than 50m)

30 arrows shot from each of the 50m, 40m, 30m distances on a 122 target face

Barebow & Longbow Rounds: Short Canberra

30 arrows shot from each of the 50m, 40m, 30m distances on a 122cm target face.

Para Round:

(U21 only) WA 40cm indoor face or 3 spot at 18m

( U21 and over) select the round suitable to your abilities and time in the sport

Long Round: (for everybody else shooting Recurve and Compound)

30 arrows shot from each of the 60m, 50m, 40m distances on a 122cm target face.

Results will only be received on the official results spreadsheet via the Member Associations contact person or the State Recorder in Australia by Sunday 14 June 2026 @ 5pm NZL time.