https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/equipment/draw-weight-archer-level 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/draw-weight-archer-levelFour samples, and they do not point the same way. In 62 recurve archers, those at the European outdoor championships declared 42.9 lb on average and those at a German national indoor championship 38.5, a difference of about four and a half pounds, and a significant one (p = 0.003); in 27 recurve archers split into three levels by FITA score the elite shot 44.0 lb against 34.8 and 35.5 for the beginners and the intermediate group, with no test; in 28 Chinese archers the eight on the national team shot 46.3 lb against 42.1 and 42.3 for the two provincial groups, but the difference is not tested, the standard deviations are around five pounds and the study appears in a questionable venue. In 30 Japanese archers split into three groups of ten by score at 70 metres, on the other hand, bow draw weight does not separate the levels. Even where the difference exists, level does not travel alone: the European archers trained almost twice as many times a week and shot outdoors, while the elite archers of the 2019 sample and the Chinese national team archers had more years of practice, and the latter were also a few years older. These are cross-sectional studies, in the European sample at least the draw weights are self-reported, and nobody has followed archers as they move up a level to see whether the pounds come before or after.claim:libbraggio-livello-arciere:revision:2026-02-14:3Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/equipment/draw-weight-archer-levelclaim:libbraggio-livello-arciere:new_claim:2026-01-26:contestatoMon, 26 Jan 2026 08:00:00 GMT