Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics will be held over a seven day period starting August 9 and ending August 15. The events will take place at the Olympic Green Archery Field, a temporary venue on the Olympic Green, Beijing's Olympic Park.

Men and women will have the same separate events: an individual competition and a 3-person team competition. In addition, both men and women have the same size targets (1.22 m) and stand the same distance away from their target (70 m).

[edit] Qualification^[1]

The athlete quota for archery is 128 athletes, 64 men and 64 women. There is a maximum of six athletes per National Olympic Committee, three per gender. NOC's with three athletes of the same gender automatically qualify for the team competition. Athletes can not qualify themselves directly into Beijing. Once they qualify they earn spots for their NOC, which then can decide which of the athletes who have reached the MQS (Minimum Qualification Score) they select. The MQS for FITA rounds are 1200 (men) and 1180 (women). For 70m rounds they are 600 (men) and 590 (women). Athletes who wish to qualify for the Olympics need to achieve the MQS in the period starting from 5 July 2007 until 16 July 2008.

Host nation China qualifies 3 athletes per gender automatically when they participate with the same amount of athletes at the 2007 World Outdoor Target Championships in Leipzig. At these Championships another 80 spots are given to NOC's. The top 8 nations per gender (apart from China) in the team competition qualifies with 3 athletes for the Olympics. 16 spots per gender are given to the NOC's with the highest ranked athletes which have not yet qualified through the team competition, again with a maximum of 3 athletes per NOC.

Archers can also qualify through Continental Qualification Tournaments. Those who already qualified may not participate in these Continental Championships as well as nations that don't belong to the continental area. 3 spots will be allocated to Asia, Europe and PanAmerica, while Africa and Oceania both receive 2 spots per gender. At these tournaments there is a maximum of 2 athletes per NOC.

A special tournament called the Final World Qualification Tournament will be held between nations that not have won any quota places through other tournaments. They can qualify a maximum of one athlete per NOC and per gender. This tournament will be held from 23 June 2008 until 29 June 2008. 3 remaining spots per gender will be allocated by a commission of IOC and FITA members to nations who have submitted athletes who did not yet qualify.

The following is a list of qualification events:

31 December 2006, FITA publishes the calendar and locations of the Continental Qualification Tournaments.

5 July 2007, start of the Minimum Qualification Score period.

5 July 2007 - 15 July 2007, 2007 World Outdoor Target Championships in Leipzig.

23 June 2008 - 29 June 2008, Final World Qualification Tournament.

16 July 2008, end of the Minimum Qualification Score period.

18 July 2008, FITA reallocated unused quota places.

TBC, African Championships, Egypt

14-19 September, 2007, Asian Championships, Xian, China

12-18 May, 2008, European Championships, Vittel, France

TBC, Oceanian Championships, Tahiti

6-13 October, 2007, World Ranking Tournament (PanAmerica Continental Qualification Tournament), El Salvador

TBC, The commission will confirm the invitational places to NOC's.

[edit] References

• Sports Competition Schedule. BOCOG (2006-04-17). Retrieved on August 10, 2006.
• Archery. (Sports). International Olympic Committee (2006). Retrieved on August 10, 2006.
• Programme of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, Beijing 2008 (pdf). International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on August 10, 2006.
• Documentation on Qualification System
• Official FITA website

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