Antalya 2026 Lands at Gloria Arena | Archery Weekly Jun 1-7

Archery weekly hit a transitional week between two of the year’s biggest stages. The Hyundai Archery World Cup rolled into Antalya for its 20th visit but for the first time pulled into Gloria Sports Arena instead of the Centennial Centre, 332 archers from 42 countries arrived to chase Saltillo Final spots, and across the Marmara at Istanbul’s Okmeydani Lodge, Korea and Türkiye carved up the qualification table at the 14th Conquest Cup. Slovenia’s Veronica’s Cup wrapped with a compound 50+ mixed team world record — broken by the same pair that broke it eight days earlier. Yankton, South Dakota turned itself into the US team-trials hub for both World Field and World 3D Championships. And down in Geneva, the 2027 European Para Championships formally confirmed archery on its 12-sport program. Here’s the week, in order of consequence.

Antalya 2026 World Cup Lands at Gloria Sports Arena

The biggest archery weekly news this round is structural. After 19 straight stagings at the Antalya Centennial Centre, the Hyundai Archery World Cup moves more than 40 kilometres east to Gloria Sports Arena from June 9 to 14, with the medal finals returning to Antalya Beach Park on the 13th and 14th. That matters more than venue blurbs make it sound. Centennial had a known wind pattern — coastal, predictable, the kind of left-to-right drift the Korean and Turkish recurve squads spent a decade learning to read. Gloria is a stadium environment, walled in, and the early scouting from coaches is that the swirl behaves differently between practice morning and qualification afternoon.

The field is stacked. World #1 recurve Marcus D’Almeida of Brazil is in, defending recurve women’s champion An San returns for Korea, and reigning European champion Emircan Haney shoots on home soil for Türkiye. Notable absences: Brady Ellison sits this one out for the US recurve men, and Mariana Bernal misses compound women for Mexico. Stage winners get the last bookable seats at the September World Cup Final in Saltillo, so anyone still on the bubble is shooting for their season here.

Compound team finals air Saturday June 13 at 10:00 local (07:00 UTC), with the final fours at 14:00 local. Recurve finals follow Sunday on the same schedule. Coverage runs through archery+ and the usual broadcast partners — beIN, CCTV, Claro, Globo, SET India, TRT, POLSAT, RTVE. For US viewers, the time zones are friendly for once: 07:00 UTC on Saturday is 03:00 Eastern, which is rough, but the 11:00 UTC final fours land at a watchable 07:00 ET. If you’re new to the recurve side of the sport, the traditional vs Olympic recurve breakdown is worth reading before tuning in — it makes the medal-round shot rhythm a lot easier to follow.

Conquest Cup Istanbul: Korea and Türkiye Take the Qualification Spoils

The 14th Conquest Cup ran June 3-7 at the Okmeydani Archers Lodge facilities in Istanbul, and qualification day turned into a coronation for two countries. Korea’s Choi Chuljun, world-ranked 775th and shooting at altitude a long way from his usual numbers, posted 680 to take recurve men’s top seed and finish ahead of world #5 Mete Gazoz on the same range. Yu Seulha, the 18-year-old who picked up youth team gold earlier in the calendar, fired 671 to top recurve women on tiebreaker over Italy’s Roberta Di Francesco. Pattern: Korea sends a development squad to a B-tier event and still wins the top of the board.

Türkiye’s compound depth was the louder story. Hosts took the top five seeds in compound women, with Yesim Bostan leading on 701. Emircan Haney and Batuhan Akcaoglu both hit 714 in compound men, with Haney claiming the top spot on an X-count tiebreaker, 35 to 31. Bear in mind that Haney also has Antalya breathing down his neck the following weekend, so this is one of those rare weeks where a top archer plays back-to-back live tournaments without much rest between them.

Mlinaric Bids for a Third Straight Conquest Cup Title

Croatia’s Amanda Mlinaric came into Istanbul carrying two Conquest Cup crowns from 2024 and 2025 and the world #9 ranking, and qualified sixth in compound women with 688. Sixth means she will need to climb through the bracket past at least two Turkish shooters with home crowd advantage, including world #11 Hazal Burun and 2025 silver medallist Begum Yuva. The three-peat is rare in any compound bracket — qualification scores hover in such tight bands that one mistimed release in a 1-arrow shoot-off is usually the difference between a podium and a flight home.

The interesting subplot is what gear Mlinaric is shooting this season versus last. Croatian compound shooters have not been as quick as some federations to migrate to the press-free tuning systems that dominated bow launches at the 2026 ATA show, and Mlinaric has been one of the more conservative setups on the European compound circuit. A third straight title with a slightly older platform would be a quiet statement about whether the 2026 flagship features are actually moving the needle in elimination conditions, or whether shooter form still rules the format. If you’re building a setup at home, the compound bow draw weight chart is a fair starting point for matching your draw to your shooting goals before you start chasing flagship features.

Slovak Pair Re-Break Their Own Compound 50+ Mixed Team World Record

This one’s a quiet record but a loud signal about where the masters compound division has gone. Slovakia’s Petra Kocutova and Jozef Bosansky finished qualification at the 2026 Veronica’s Cup in Kamnik on May 31 with a combined 1372 points — 19 points clear of the 1353 they set at the European Outdoor Championships just over a week earlier. World Archery has the score submitted and pending ratification. The 50+ compound mixed team category is the kind of bracket that gets overlooked in coverage, but the standards have climbed steeply: a 1372 today would have been competitive at senior level a decade ago.

Read it as a depth signal rather than a one-off. The masters compound division has tightened up because 50+ archers now have access to the same flagship release aids, sights, and stabilizers that senior shooters use, and the gap in equipment quality has closed almost entirely. The 50+ recurve side has seen similar movement — Mark Williams set two pending world records at the Pan American Youth and Masters Championships in Medellin the week prior, an event we covered in last week’s roundup. Two consecutive weeks of records in the masters categories is not a coincidence.

USA Archery Field + 3D Nationals Wrap in Yankton — World Trials Locked In

The NFAA Easton Yankton Archery Center hosted the 2026 USA Archery Field Nationals and 3D Nationals from June 3 to 6, and both events ran double duty as the official US team trials for the upcoming World Archery Field Championships and World Archery 3D Championships. Both worlds return to the same Yankton venue from September 24 to October 4 — a back-to-back hosting block that is, as far as anyone in the federation can recall, a first for any North American site.

What that means practically: every athlete who qualified at trials gets to compete on a course they already know, against a field that already studied them. That’s a meaningful US advantage in a discipline where European squads usually own the international podium. The 2022 winners included Brady Ellison in recurve men, Paige Pearce in compound women, and Christina Lyons in barebow women, all of whom built reputations on this venue. The bracket of the trials field will publish in full through USA Archery, but the takeaway is that the US is now stacking its outdoor calendar around Yankton to a degree that turns the town into the de facto American archery capital between June and October.

Para Archery Confirmed for Geneva 2027

Para archery officially made the 12-sport cut for the 2027 European Para Championships, which run at the Palexpo complex in Geneva from August 2 to 15, 2027. Archery starts August 10 and finishes with medal presentations on the 14th and 15th. The program covers individual recurve, compound, and W1 for both genders, plus V1 and V2, with doubles and mixed team events across all three main disciplines. The federations are expecting over 2,000 athletes total across the 12 sports — the largest European multisport event on the para calendar to date.

The 2023 inaugural edition in Rotterdam was won at the top by Türkiye, which took six golds, with Italy second at five — a useful baseline for what to expect in Geneva. For the European para gear market, the 14-month runway between confirmation and event start matters: it’s exactly the lead time most adaptive equipment manufacturers need to bring new W1 and V1 platforms through field testing. Expect a wave of new adaptive risers and aiming systems through mid-2027.

USA Archery’s 2026 Calendar Adds a New $50K USAT Series Final

Buried under the live competition coverage was a calendar reveal that should change how serious American archers schedule their summer. USA Archery confirmed a brand-new USAT Series Final for August 12, 2026 in Springfield, Missouri, immediately ahead of the USA Archery Target Nationals and US Open at the same venue. The total prize pool is $50,000, with eight athletes per gender competing in recurve, compound, and barebow head-to-head elimination matches under World Archery rules.

Qualification routes through the four USAT Series stages — the Easton Foundations Gator Cup, Easton Foundations Salt Lake Summit, Easton Foundations SoCal Showdown, and Rebel Gear Buckeye Classic. You can punch a ticket by winning a stage outright, or by accumulating the most placement points across the four events. Salt Lake Summit alone doubled its qualifier allocation this season because of how the field shook out, so the Series Final is going to draw a deeper bracket than the federation originally projected. The Springfield run is shaping up as the biggest single August week the USAT has ever staged.

Looking Ahead

Antalya headlines the week ahead, but it isn’t the only target. The Conquest Cup finals wrap in Istanbul before the World Cup spools up, the Salt Lake Summit Youth wave ran May 29-31 and the results are still feeding into US summer rankings, and the Pan American Archery Championships in Tlaxcala kick off June 22-28 with national squads finalising rosters this week. Watch the Antalya wind reports on Wednesday and Thursday — Gloria Sports Arena will reveal its character within the first two qualification ends, and the smart money is on whoever adapts fastest looking like the favorite by Saturday afternoon. We’ll have the full Antalya recap and the Conquest Cup elimination results in next Monday’s roundup.

Watch: Antalya Recurve Highlights

World Archery’s recurve highlight reel from the earlier Antalya 2026 European Outdoor Championships is a good primer on the elite shot-rhythm and crowd noise you can expect from the World Cup stage on the same coast.

Sources

1. World Archery — How to watch Antalya 2026 stage three — Schedule, broadcast partners, time zones
2. World Archery — Gloria Sports Arena to host 20th Antalya stage — Venue change context and field size
3. World Archery — Korea and Türkiye lead Conquest Cup qualification — Qualification scores and seeds
4. World Archery — Mlinaric targets third straight Conquest Cup title — Mlinaric storyline and field
5. World Archery — Bosansky and Kocutova improve own compound 50+ mixed team world record — Score and ratification details
6. USA Archery — Field + 3D Nationals registration open in Yankton — Trials and worlds details
7. World Archery — Archery among 12 sports confirmed for 2027 European Championships — Geneva 2027 program
8. USA Archery — USAT Series Final added to 2026 calendar — Springfield $50K prize pool and qualification