Voting for World Archery’s 2017 Athlete of the Year award winners was officially opened to the public on 24 January 2018 across six categories: recurve men, recurve women, compound men, compound women, para men and para women.
Nominees include the four new World Archery Champions, plus World Archery Para Champions and world number ones.
Voting is open until midnight central European time on Wednesday 7 February 2018.
Cast your vote in the online portal
The winners will be announced during the Indoor Archery World Cup Final, held after the second day of The Vegas Shoot, on Saturday 10 February 2018. There will be no World Archery Gala held at Vegas in 2018 due to the Winter Olympics.
Recurve men shortlist
- STEVE WIJLER, Netherlands
- IM DONG HYUN, Korea
- KIM WOOJIN, Korea
- WEI CHUN-HENG, Chinese Taipei
- BRADY ELLISON, USA
Recurve women shortlist
- CHANG HYE JIN, Korea
- KI BO BAE, Korea
- KSENIA PEROVA, Russia
- LISA UNRUH, Germany
- TAN YA-TING, Chinese Taipei
Compound men shortlist
- MIKE SCHLOESSER, Netherlands
- STEPHAN HANSEN, Denmark
- DEMIR ELMAAGACLI, Turkey
- SEBASTIEN PEINEAU, France
- BRADEN GELLENTHIEN, USA
Compound women shortlist
- SARA LOPEZ, Colombia
- SONG YUN SOO, korea
- SARAH SONNICHSEN, Denmark
- TANJA JENSEN, Denmark
- YESIM BOSTAN, Turkey
Para men shortlist
- DAVID DRAHONINSKY, Czech Republic
- AI XINLIANG, China
- ALBERTO SIMONELLI, Italy
- JEFF FABRY, USA
- ZHAO LIXUE, China
Para women shortlist
- JESSICA STRETTON, Great Britain
- JANE KARLA GOGEL, Brazil
- TATIANA ANDRIEVSKAIA, Russia
- ZAHRA NEMATI, Iran
- ZHOU JIAMiN, China
