https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/equipment/top-archers-moderate-draw-weights Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/equipment/top-archers-moderate-draw-weightsIt depends on when and whom you look at, and the figures split. The measurements that sit inside the band come from tiny groups: three Australian national-level recurve archers in 1990, with 30, 35 and 36 lb, plus a compound that dropped to 30 at full draw; four from the Turkish national team in 2010, with 16.9 kg, about 37 lb; fourteen from the Polish national team in 2023, with bows between 36 and 40 lb. The larger and more recent samples, all recurve, sit above it: at the 2012 European outdoor championships the mean was 42.9 lb, at the 2025 World Cup stage in Shanghai it was 46.8, with values from 37.2 to 58.3, and 39 elite archers measured before a World Cup event reported an average of 24.55 kg, about 54 lb, a high figure for a group with sixteen women out of thirty-nine, printed in the same table that gives arrows of 644 mm on average, short for that level: the units in that paper leave a doubt the text does not resolve. These samples do not split the data by sex and mix men and women in different proportions, which alone is enough to shift the mean by several pounds. What can be said is that thirty to forty pounds describes the small national-team groups of 1990 and 2010 and part of today's national teams well, not the top of recurve as the larger samples show it. The band most often quoted today, forty to fifty pounds, matches the average of recent international samples, but within a single group the standard deviation reaches six pounds, and no average says what the individual top archer shoots.claim:libbraggi-elite-moderati:revision:2026-08-15:2Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/equipment/top-archers-moderate-draw-weightsclaim:libbraggi-elite-moderati:new_claim:2026-07-08:contestatoWed, 08 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT