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Martin Damsbo (born 26 May 1985 in Odense), is a Danish athlete who competes in compound archery. He has won medals at the World Archery Championships , a gold medal at the 2013 Archery World Cup Final , and achieved his highest world ranking of 2 in 2010.
In modern archery, a compound bow is a bow that uses a levering system, usually of cables and pulleys, to bend the limbs. [1] The compound bow was first developed in 1966 by Holless Wilbur Allen in North Kansas City, Missouri, and a US patent was granted in 1969. Compound bows are widely used in target practice and hunting.
Jean Joseph Martin (b. Mirecourt (Vosges) 1837 – d. Paris 1910) was a French Archetier / Bowmaker. Served his apprenticeship with Nicolas Remy Maire. In 1858 left Mirecourt for Paris to join Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume's workshop. Five years later, JJ MARTIN came back to Mirecourt (1863) to open his own workshop.
Archery, and the bow, play an important part in the epic poem the Odyssey, when Odysseus returns home in disguise and then bests the suitors in an archery competition after hinting at his identity by stringing and drawing his great bow that only he can draw, a similar motif is present in the Turkic Iranian heroic archeheroic poem Alpamysh.
The binary cam is a design for the pulley system of a compound bow. Craig Yehle, director of research and development at Bowtech Archery, received a patent [1] for the design on December 11, 2007. Bowtech started equipping its bows with the new cam design in the 2005 model year. [2] [3]
Martin Imboden (born 12 December 1963) is a Swiss Paralympic archer. He has competed once at the Summer Paralympics, four times at the World Para Archery Championships and twice at the Para Continental Championships. [2] 105 Swiss athletes were sent to Rio Olympic Games and 21 of those were paralympians.