The 2025 Hyundai Archery World Cup champions will be crowned at the season’s grand finale on 18-19 October in Nanjing, China, at the climax of archery’s major annual international competition circuit.
Thirty-two archers, eight in each of the four championship categories, have made it to this, the 19th edition of the Hyundai Archery World Cup Final.
Athletes qualified either by winning a stage – in Central Florida, Shanghai, Antalya, and/or Madrid – or by gaining enough ranking points with high finishes to be selected as points qualifiers from the Hyundai Archery World Cup Ranking.
Both new World Champions from the Gwangju 2025 Hyundai World Archery Championships – Kang Chaeyoung and Nicolas Girard – will be competing, after both won stages earlier in the year; Kang in Madrid and Girard in Antalya.
Brady Ellison returns to the line-up, after last failing to qualify for the World Cup Final for the first time since his debut at the event in 2010.
Of last year’s winners, only Li Jiaman will return to defend her recurve title. Kim Woojin has withdrawn for domestic reasons, and neither Sara Lopez or James Lutz qualified this year.
After the draw on Thursday – part of the opening ceremony – the competition will be a straightforward bracket starting from the quarterfinals. The four archers who win in Nanjing will secure the title of Hyundai Archery World Cup Champion and a 30,000 CHF cash prize, with 15,000 CHF going to the runner-up, 8,000 to the third place finisher, and 1,500 to the fourth place finisher in each category.
It is the first time that a Chinese city has hosted the final, despite the fact that Shanghai has featured as a stage on the circuit in all but four of the 19 editions of the World Cup so far.
