![]() ![]() A promotional tour of the coastal regions of France ensued, introducing thousands of French to the sport in what remains the most exciting and professional promotional tour to date. traveled to Paris, France with Chet Snouffer and Eric Darnell finishing one-two in the first ever individual world championships. In 1985 a four-man World Cup team from the U.S. in 1984 and evened the score, winning the Lands' End Boomerang Cup. ![]() To the surprise of many, the upstart Americans came away victors by sweeping the three-test series. It was the first such international competition in history. Team of 10 boomerang throwers went to Australia to challenge the Aussies in their own native sport on their home turf. Now the sport is practiced worldwide, with International Team Cup Challenges and World Team and Individual championships held every two years. The United States Boomerang Association was formed in 1981. In the United States, the boomerang movement was triggered in part by a milestone article on boomerangs in a 1968 Scientific American, and nurtured by the Smithsonian Institute which sponsored yearly educational workshops in the making and throwing of boomerangs. A national fellowship of throwers in Australia formed the Boomerang Association of Australia in 1970. History of Modern Team Play USA Boomerang Teams and the History of the Modern Sport While the boomerang has existed for nearly 15,000 years in Australia, boomerang throwing as an organized sport began in the 1970's in Australia and the United States.
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