From Jun.2 to Jun. 3, the “Dalian Jinyi Cup” outdoor archery champions league (Dalian Station) of the APCC•2018•Third Station (Star Competition) will be held in the sports center, which will be the second APCC outdoor archery competition held in the sports center in recent years.

       This league has attracted nearly 300 archery enthusiasts from various archery groups and clubs all over the country. The number of participants enrolled is far more than that of last year. The league projects include laminated bows, traditional bows, 30 meters of reflex bows and open class (70 meters) of reflex bows, which will form a grand “folk archery meeting”.

       It is understood that the APCC Archery Sports League is a national sports event brand with the competitions including Champions League, Star Competitions, Field Competitions and Indoor Competitions, which have built a professional and diversified platform for competition communication for the archery enthusiasts. The APCC Outdoor Champions League in this year has set up nine stations for competition in China, including Xiamen, Chengdu, Dalian, Hohhot, Zhengzhou, Nanjing, Changsha, Tangshan and Hefei.

       The Dalian Sports Center provides supporting services in accordance with the high standards required by the sports events with a hope to leave a pleasant memory and deep impression for all the participants. The archery is known to be in the ascendant in Dalian, with at least six archery clubs and a total of nearly 20,000 archery enthusiasts and the youngest of them is only six years old. One of the participants Mr. Zhang told the reporter that, “the overwhelming majority of the archery enthusiasts are training indoors. To tell the truth, outdoor training is much funny than indoor training. Participating competitions in outdoor places and watching the arrows flying off the string and hitting the bull’s eye after streaking a beautiful arc in the sky can bring a pleasure that cannot be experienced in indoor competitions.”

       The sports event can not only drive the diversified development of the sports in Dalian, but also build a platform for further communication and study between the archery enthusiasts in Dalian and other cities. It is hoped that through this sports event, more people can come to know archery, acknowledge it and then like it. It is also hoped that archery will eventually become a part of the national fitness campaign with more people participating in it to feel its charm.