History of Disability Archery In the UK the body governing the
sport is called ArcheryGB and was founded in 1861 as the Grand
National Archery Society. Archery is an Olympic and Paralympic
sport and was represented as early as 1900 at the Paris
Olympiad. In 1948 Archery was the sport chosen to inaugurate the
first International Games for the Disabled at Stoke Mandeville
and has been a Paralympic sport since the first official Games
in Rome in 1960. The sport reached a new pinnacle 44 years later
when Paralympian, Antonio Rebollo ignited both the Olympic and
Paralympic flames in Barcelona with a fire arrow.