The Gladsaxe Archery Club was created in 1957, the first chairman was Benny Sørensen. One started shooting indoors in the cellar of the school
at the street called Tobaksvejen, and outdoors at the soccer fields in Emdrup. The Gladsaxe Archery Club had for many years shared sport fields,
material and activities with the telephone factory at Automaticvej until this closed in 1990.
Nowadays the club has some of the best exclusive facilities both for indoors and outdoors shooting, about 20 minutes from the city center in
Copenhagen at Søborg (see the addresses at the Kontakt page).
Some of the Gladsaxe Archery Club's members have won national and international competitions as well as individual and team Danish records.
The club's website is in Danish except for this page, the following is a summary of it's content following the top menu tabs (top right menu):
- Hjem - Home page with the welcome and introduction to the club.
- Klubben - About the club, describes the facilites indoors and outdoors and includes a slide show with some of the club's pictures.
- Bestyrelsen - Board members.
- Medlems information - Information for members, including membership prices, archery equipment, training times and contact information.
- Billeder - This is the club's gallery section with many pictures in slide show fashion from previous events.
- Divisionskydning - Information on inter-clubs competitions.
- Competitions and Results - Information about past competitions, results and pictures.
- Skydeformer - This page present information about shooting forms (recurve, compound and long bow).
- Nyheder - club's news, the place to look if you want to find club's news.
- Træningstider - Training/Opening times.
- Kontakt - Here you can find the club's facilities addresses and contact information.
Archery as sport has been gaining popularity in Denmark quite rapidly, specially for the great international performance of members of the Danish National Team (for example Camilla Søemod and Martin Damsbo among other). For more information about Archery in Denmark visit the Danish Archery Association (Dønsk Bues@tteforbund - in Danish) this site includes very useful information for example it has a section "Find en Klub" (find a club) with a map of the country and links to the different clubs in Denmark including the Gladsaxe Archery Club.
The Gladsaxe Archery Club is member of
- the Danish Archery Association (Dansk Bueskytteforbund),
- the Danish Sports Association (Danmarks ldrætsforbund) and
- the International Archery Federation (FITA)
