Eight days out from the World Cup Final, the field for Saltillo is locked, two overlapping world championships open in South Dakota this month, and archery's newest president closes out year one on the job.

Saltillo, Mexico — 12–13 September

The 2026 Hyundai Archery World Cup closes out this weekend in Saltillo, where eight qualifiers apiece in recurve and compound, men and women, meet in a single-elimination bracket for the season's biggest individual title. Host nation Mexico brings the largest contingent of the 32-athlete line-up, with seven archers across both disciplines shooting in front of a home crowd.

Brady Ellison arrives as the man to beat in recurve, defending the title he won for a sixth time at last year's final in Nanjing. In compound, Sebastian Garcia and Andrea Becerra already punched their tickets by winning their World Cup stages outright in Shanghai and Antalya, while Sara Lopez returns to the Final field looking to extend a run of titles that has defined the discipline for a decade.

Names to watch

  • Brady Ellison — Recurve M — Defending champion, six-time Final winner
  • Sara Lopez — Compound W — Back after missing the 2025 Final
  • Sebastian Garcia — Compound M — Qualified by winning the Shanghai stage
  • Andrea Becerra — Compound W — Qualified by winning the Antalya stage

It's the twentieth edition of the World Cup Final, and the last global stop before archery's autumn shifts to team competition — first at the Asian Games, then at a rare double World Championship in the United States.

Two championships, one month

Archery returns to the Asian Games in Okazaki

Continental archery's biggest team event of the year runs at the Okazaki Central Park Multipurpose Square in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, pitting Asia's recurve and compound powers — South Korea, China, India, Chinese Taipei — against each other outside the World Cup circuit.

26 SEP – 3 OCT · OKAZAKI, JAPAN

Field and 3D worlds share a range in Yankton

For the first time, the World Archery Field Championships and World Archery 3D Championships run concurrently, at the NFAA Easton Yankton Archery Center. Organizers expect more than 2,000 athletes from upward of 50 countries across the eleven-day window.

24 SEP – 4 OCT · YANKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA

Around the sport

Easton family foundation puts $1.4 million behind grassroots archery

In March, the Easton Sports Development Foundation announced a $1.4 million gift to the USA Archery Foundation, earmarked for coaching, equipment and club-level programs nationwide — the latest in a long-running relationship between the Easton family and the sport it has bankrolled for decades.

A year into Greg Easton's term, the World Cup Final is his first full-season test

Greg Easton was elected World Archery's 10th president last September in Gwangju, defeating then-secretary general Tom Dielen 208 votes to 96 for a four-year mandate through 2029. Saltillo and the Yankton double-worlds land as his first complete competitive calendar in the role, following his father James, who led the federation from 1989 to 2005.

Shaun Anderson keeps building South Africa's para-archery program

The South African Paralympian, who took up archery one-armed after a 2004 motorbike accident and kept shooting after a 2017 accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, chairs the country's National Para Archery Committee, the body his own persistence pushed the national federation to create. "Superhuman" and "I'm Possible" are written on his bow.

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