Archery at the 2015 European Games

Archery at the 2015 European Games
Individual	men	women
Team	men	women	mixed

At the 2015 European Games in Baku, five events of archery will be contested, all in the target archery format, with recurve bows. Europe’s best archers will shoot at the iconic Tofiq Bahramov Stadium ^[1] over seven days of competition. The European Games format will follow that of the Olympic Games with 64 men and 64 women competing in the recurve division, in individual and team events as well as in mixed team.

Qualification

A total of 128 athletes will compete at the Games. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) is permitted to enter a maximum of six competitors, three per gender. NOCs that qualified 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. Six places will be reserved for Azerbaijan as the host nation, on the condition that they enter three athletes per gender at the 2014 European Championships.^[2][3] There will a total of five medal events and a capacity of 3,400. Archery will also offer the opportunity to win ranking points for Rio 2016 Summer Olympics qualification.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Individual	Miguel Alvariño  Spain	Sjef van den Berg  Netherlands	Anton Prilepov  Belarus
Men's Team	Ukraine Heorhiy Ivanytskyy Markiyan Ivashko Viktor Ruban	Spain Miguel Alvariño Juan Ignacio Rodríguez Antonio Fernández	Netherlands Rick van der Ven Sjef van den Berg Mitch Dielemans
Women's Individual	Karina Winter  Germany	Maja Jager  Denmark	Alicia Marín  Spain
Women's Team	Italy Natalia Valeeva Guendalina Sartori Elena Tonetta	Belarus Hanna Marusava Ekaterina Timofeyeva Alena Tolkach	Ukraine Lidiia Sichenikova Veronika Marchenko Anastasia Pavlova
Mixed Team	Italy Natalia Valeeva Mauro Nespoli	Georgia Khatuna Narimanidze Lasha Pkhakadze	Ukraine Lidiia Sichenikova Heorhiy Ivanytskyy

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	2	0	0	2
2	Spain (ESP)	1	1	1	3
3	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	2	3
4	Germany (GER)	1	0	0	1
5	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	1	2
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	1	2
7	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Georgia (GEO)	0	1	0	1
Totals (8 nations)		5	5	5	15

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