2016 Summer Olympics - The Results (Archery - Qualification)

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Archery - Qualification for 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games

There were 128 qualifying places available for archery at the 2016 Summer Olympics: 64 for men and 64 for women.

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) is permitted to enter a maximum of six competitors, three per gender. NOCs that qualify teams for a particular gender were able to send a three-member team to the team event and also have each member compete in the individual event. There were 12 team spots for each gender, thus qualifying 36 individuals through team qualification. All other NOCs may earn a maximum of one quota place per gender for the individual events.

Six places are reserved for Brazil as the host nation, and a further six will be decided by the Tripartite Commission. The remaining 116 places are then allocated through a qualification process, in which archers earned quota places for their respective NOCs, though not necessarily for themselves.

To be eligible to participate in the Olympic Games after the NOC has obtained a quota place, all archers must have achieved the following minimum qualification score (MQS):

Men: 70m round of 630
Women: 70m round of 600

The MQS must have been achieved between 26 July 2015 (starting at the 2015 World Archery Championships) and 11 July 2016 at a registered World Archery event.

Summary

Nation	Men		Women		Total
Nation	Individual	Team	Individual	Team	Athletes
Australia	3	X	1		4
Austria			1		1
Azerbaijan			1		1
Bangladesh			1		1
Belarus	1				1
Belgium	1				1
Bhutan			1		1
Brazil	3	X	3	X	6
Canada	1		1		2
Chile	1				1
China	3	X	3	X	6
Colombia	1		3	X	4
Cuba	1				1
Dominican Republic			1		1
Egypt	1		1		2
Estonia			1		1
Fiji	1				1
Finland	1		1		2
France	3	X			3
Georgia			3	X	3
Germany	1		1		2
Greece			1		1
Great Britain	1		1		2
India	1		3	X	4
Indonesia	3	X	1		4
Iran			1		1
Italy	3	X	3	X	6
Ivory Coast	1				1
Japan	1		3	X	4
Kazakhstan	1		1		2
Kenya			1		1
Libya	1				1
Malawi	1				1
Malaysia	3	X			3
Mexico	1		3	X	4
Moldova			1		1
Mongolia	1				1
Myanmar			1		1
Nepal	1				1
Netherlands	3	X			3
North Korea			1		1
Norway	1				1
Poland			1		1
Russia			3	X	3
Slovakia	1		1		2
South Korea	3	X	3	X	6
Spain	3	X	1		4
Sweden			1		1
Chinese Taipei	3	X	3	X	6
Thailand	1				1
Tonga	1		1		2
Turkey	1		1		2
Ukraine	1		3	X	4
United States	3	X	1		4
Venezuela	1		1		2
Zimbabwe	1				1
Total: 56 NOCs	64	12	64	12	128

Timeline

Event	Date	Venue
2015 World Archery Championships	July 27 – August 2, 2015	Copenhagen
2015 Asian Archery Championships	November 1–9, 2015	Bangkok
2016 African Archery Championships	January 28–31, 2016	Windhoek
2016 Oceanian Archery Championships	April 8–16, 2016	Nuku'alofa
2016 Pan American Archery Qualifier	May 8–9, 2016	Medellín
2016 European Archery Championships	May 23–29, 2016	Nottingham
2016 Archery World Cup Stage	June 13–18, 2016	Antalya

Men's events

Event	Location	Athletes per NOC	Total places	Qualified
Host nation	—	3	3	Brazil
2015 World Archery Championships, team event	Copenhagen	3	24	Australia China Italy South Korea Netherlands Spain Chinese Taipei United States
2015 World Archery Championships, individual event	Copenhagen	1	7*	Canada Colombia Germany India Japan Ukraine Venezuela
2015 Asian Archery Championships	Bangkok^[2]	1	2*	Mongolia Kazakhstan
2016 African Archery Championships	Windhoek	1	3	Egypt ~~South Africa~~^[b] Zimbabwe Ivory Coast
2016 Oceanian Championships	Nuku'alofa	1	2	Fiji Tonga
2016 Pan American Championships	Medellín	1	3	Mexico ~~El Salvador~~^[a] Chile Cuba
2016 European Championships	Nottingham	1	3	Turkey Finland Great Britain
2016 Archery World Cup Stage, team event	Antalya	3	9	Indonesia France Malaysia
2016 Archery World Cup Stage, individual event	Antalya	1	5*	Belarus Belgium Norway Slovakia Thailand
Tripartite Commission		1	3	Libya Malawi Nepal
Total			64

* Eight individual spots were initially available at the World Championships and three more at the Asian Championships. Those spots taken by Indonesia and Malaysia later won team places in the team recurve at the Antalya leg of the Archery World Cup, releasing two further individual quota places to be awarded in the same meet.

Women's events

Event	Location	Athletes per NOC	Total places	Qualified
Host nation	—	3	3	Brazil
2015 World Archery Championships, team event	Copenhagen	3	24	China Colombia Georgia India Japan South Korea Mexico Russia
2015 World Archery Championships, individual event	Copenhagen	1	5*	Austria Germany Indonesia Poland United States
2015 Asian Archery Championships	Bangkok^[2]	1	3	North Korea Iran Kazakhstan
2016 African Archery Championships	Windhoek	1	2	~~Ivory Coast~~ Egypt Kenya
2016 Oceania Championships	Nuku'alofa	1	2	Australia Tonga
2016 Pan American Championships	Medellín	1	3	Venezuela Canada Dominican Republic
2016 European Championships	Nottingham	1	3	Turkey Slovakia Azerbaijan
2016 World Archery Cup Stage, team event	Antalya	3	9	Ukraine Italy Chinese Taipei
2016 World Archery Cup Stage, individual event	Antalya	1	7*	Estonia Finland Great Britain Moldova Spain Sweden Greece
Tripartite Commission		1	3	Bangladesh Bhutan Myanmar
Total			64

* Eight individual spots were initially available at the World Championships. Three of those spots were taken by Ukraine, Italy, and Chinese Taipei. Those NOCs later won team places in the team recurve at the Antalya leg of the Archery World Cup, releasing three further individual quota places to be awarded in the same meet.

Notes

^a El Salvador's Óscar Ticas, who secured a quota place with a fourth-place finish in the World Archery Americas CQT, was suspended after his urine samples from a Guatemala World Ranking Event in March 2016 revealed the presence of a banned substance. As a result, El Salvador's Olympic license was redistributed to Cuba's Adrian Puentes.
^b The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee's policy is only to take up Olympic qualification spots earned in global competitions rather than African or regional events. Thus Terence van Moerkerken's place was vacated and taken by Rene Kouassi of Ivory Coast.

Archery

Women
Team: Brazil, China, Colombia, Georgia, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia
Individual: Brazil (3), China (3), Colombia (3), Georgia (3), India (3), Japan (3), Republic of Korea (3), Mexico (3), Russia (3), Ukraine, USA, Austria, Chinese Taipei, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Poland, Kazakhstan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Iran, Egypt, Kenya, Ivory Coast

Men
Team: Australia, Brazil, China, Chinese Taipei, Italy, Republic of Korea, Netherlands, Spain, USA
Individual: Australia (3), Brazil (3), China (3), Chinese Taipei (3), Italy (3), Republic of Korea (3), Netherlands (3), Spain (3), USA (3), Venezuela, Canada, Colombia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Egypt, South Africa, Zimbabwe

Athletes won places for their National Olympic Committees (NOCs) in the team and individual events at the 2015 world championships. The remaining team places will be allocated via the Final World Team Qualification Tournament (FTQT), while the outstanding individual places will be won at the continental qualification tournaments and Final World Individual Qualification Tournament (FIQT).

30 January 2016

Egypt Qualifies 2 at Rio 2016 African Qualification Tournament

Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya and the Ivory Coast also all collected places.

The African Archery Championships in Windhoek, Namibia acted as the continental qualification tournament for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The top three archers, representing nations with no qualified places, took spots for their nations – up to a maximum of one female and one male place.

With the conclusion of the quarterfinals, the places were decided.

Egypt dominated the recurve men’s competition, putting three athletes into the final four and securing a men’s place, while Hania Fouda’s quarterfinal 6-0 win over South Africa’s Karen Hultzer took the corresponding women’s quota spot. (She was one of two Egyptian women to make the semis.)

South Africa did find success in the men’s event. Terence van Moerkerken was the fourth finalist, joining the triplet of Egyptian athletes. That was enough to take the second quota place available.

Gavin Sutherland qualified Zimbabwe its first Olympic archery place by finishing as the fifth recurve man in the tournament.

If the spot is accepted, could become the first Zimbabwean archer to compete at a Games since Wrex Tarr in 1988. (The National Olympic Committee must first select the archer to take the place.)

“This will have a positive impact on our sport. The Zimbabwe ambassador visited the competition and committed to allocating a first archery ground,” said Sutherland, who won the 1995 African Championships as a junior and has been a professional cyclist.

Gavin currently resides in the UK.

“With my job as an electrician I have little time to train. Including set-up, I have three hours on Wednesday, two on Thursday and up to three on Sunday. To prepare, I’ve been simulating 70 metres by setting two targets, one above the other, with a high target face.”

The other two women’s places went to Kenya’s Shehzana Anwar and Cote d’Ivoire’s Carla Frangilli. Kenya last had an Olympic archer in 2000, while Frangilli won Cote d’Ivoire its first women’s spot after Rene Kouassi competed at London 2012.

“I did not expect to win,” said Anwar, also known as Kuki. “Back home I will set my mind and life, as I will need professional help to preapre for the Olympics. Hopefully this win will allow archery to be recognised in Kenya.”

8 November 2015

First Rio 2016 continental qualifier adds 5 more nations from Asia

Malaysia secured an Olympics mens spot and Paralympic Champion Zahra Nemati a women’s for Iran.

The first of five continental qualification tournaments to the Olympic Games, the Asian Archery Championships in Bangkok awarded six new nations places to Rio 2016.

Only countries without spots won in each division at the primary qualifier, the 2015 worlds, could compete in the Bangkok qualification tournament. Each nation could win a maximum of one men’s and one women’s place and three were available in each competition.

Malaysia, a surprise omission from qualification in Copenhagen, ensured it had Rio representation when Khairul Anuar Mohamad and Haziq Kamaruddin made the last four of the recurve men’s quota tournament. Joining the first and third seeded athletes in the secondary event in the last four, the archers ranked second and fourth, Kazakhstan’s Sultan Duzelbayev and Gantugs Jantsan, from Mongolia.

With Malaysia qualifying the maximum one athlete, Kazakhstan and Mongolia took the remaining two spots.

Youth Olympic mixed team gold medallist Luis Gabriel Moreno, from the Philippines, and DPR Korea athlete Jon Chol missed out, both losing 6-4 to Duzelbayev and Jon, respectively, in the quarterfinals.

DPR Korea did secure a women’s place, though. Kang Un Ju surrendered few set points through the brackets, before coming first in her secondary tournament with a 6-2 win over Paralympic Champion Zahra Nemati, who took a place for Iran with the silver.

Nemati, who competed on the Archery World Cup circuit but not at the World Archery Para Championships in 2015, looks determined to represent her country at the Olympics.

Luiza Saidiyeva secured the third recurve women’s quota place for Kazakhstan.

She beat Thi Dao Loc from Vietnam to the last remaining spot, 7-1.

Asia Continental Qualifer Places

Iran – 1 (recurve woman)
Kazakhstan – 2 (1 recurve man, 1 recurve woman)
Malaysia – 1 (recurve man)
Mongolia – 1 (recurve man)
DPR Korea – 1 (recurve woman)

Most of the competition week in Bangkok was dedicated to the 2015 Asian Championships. The recurve competition there was dominated by Korea, already with a full six-athlete quota for Rio 2016 since the summer’s World Archery Championships.

Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games winner Lee Woo Seok beat Lee Seungyun, 2013 World Archery Champion, in a shoot-off to the men’s Asian title. Three-time Olympian Im Dong Hyun took third. Chang Hye Jin won women’s gold, 7-1, over Hong Sunam, with Lee Tuk Young beating China’s Cao Hui to bronze. Both podiums were Korean clean sweeps.

India won both compound events. Rajat Chauhan won a shoot-off for the men’s final, after shooting a perfect 150-match in the semis, and Jyothi Vennam took women’s gold.

Prior to the championships, 33 athletes from 11 countries attended a training camp run by World Archery Asia and supported by Olympic Solidarity.

31/07/2015

First 22 nations win places in Rio 2016 Olympic Games archery competition

Team and individual berths are awarded at the world championships in Copenhagen

The first 22 nations have won places in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games archery competition, via the world championships in Copenhagen, World Archery (WA) has confirmed.

The first qualifications came in the recurve team event, for which each successful teams won three places at Rio 2016 for their National Olympic Committees.

In the women’s event, Mexico, the Republic Korea, Georgia, China, Japan, India, Russia and Colombia all qualified. In the men’s event, the qualifiers were Australia, the USA, the Netherlands, Chinese Taipei, China, Italy, the Republic of Korea and Spain.

The Brazil did not win in Copenhagen, but met the Olympic qualification criteria anyway as at least three women and three men from the country competed.

Three more places in the men’s and women’s teams event will be up for grabs at Final World Team Qualification Tournament, whose place and date are to be confirmed by WA.

Eight countries won places in the Rio 2016 men’s and women’s individual events. The nations already qualified in the team competition were left out. On the first day of competition, Germany, Indonesia, Chinese Taipei, Ukraine and the USA won slots in the women’s event. The following day, Austria, Italy and Poland joined the group. In the men’s competition, Canada, Colombia, Japan, India, Ukraine and Venezuela qualified on day one with Indonesia and Germany joining them the following day.

Fourteen more individual spots will be decided at continental championships, with the last three up for grabs in the Final World Individual Qualification Tournament, whose place and date are to be confirmed by WA.