From the 8th until 10th of May 2020 at the biggest culture-historical and architectural complex Historical Park will be held the tournament with the largest prize pool in the world - the International Traditional Archery Tournament “Historical Park". Archers from more than 25 countries are invited and expected to take part at the tournament. They will compete in archery of historical shapes of bow from Antiquity until the Middle Ages.
Regulations of the tournament will include three days in which qualifications will be held on the 8th and 9th of May and finals on the 10th of May. Archery will be at several types of traditional historical targets – Bulgarian swivel (or spinning) target “Zmeeborets” (Dragon fighter), Ottoman target “Puta” and competition in different distances from 10 to 60 m. The tournament is open and all the admirers of this ancient art can take part in it. Necessary (or indispensable) requirement to them is to possess and use of traditional bow, arrows with self-nock and natural feathers, and traditional historical clothes as well.
The prize fund of the tournament is 16,000 euro and it is provided by the Historical Park, which is the host and the organizer of the event. The fund aims to reward the best archers and revivalist of this ancient and beautiful art. The fund will be divided into two categories – men and women, three prize places each:
1st place 5,000 euro; 2nd place 2,000 euro; 3rd place 1,000 euro.
Official guests of the tournament will be one of the biggest archers and scholars of the traditional archery in the world – Lucas Novotny (USA), Steven Selby (Great Britain), etc. During the days from 8th until 10th of May 2020 guests of the tournament and Historical Park will be thousands of admirers of history and military art of their ancestors from Bulgaria and from all civilized world.
All fans of traditional archery are welcome to share with us and the thousands of visitors those 3 magical days of glorious archery!
