Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Archery
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Venue Dream Island Archery Field
Dates 24 July – 1 August
No. of events 5 (2 men, 2 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors 128

The archery events at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will begin on 24 July 2020.[1] Five events will take place.

Qualification

There are 128 qualifying places available for archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics: 64 for men and 64 for women. The qualification standards were released by World Archery in March 2018.[1]

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 are able to send a three-member team to the team event and also have each member compete in the individual event. There are 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.[2]

Six places are reserved for Japan as the host nation, and a further four will be decided by the Tripartite Commission. The remaining 118 places are then allocated through a qualification process, in which archers earn quota places for their respective NOCs, though not necessarily for themselves.[2]

There is no qualification process prior to the 2020 Games for the mixed team event. Instead, qualification for that event is done through the ranking rounds at the beginning of the Games. Each NOC that has qualified at least one man and one woman will have the scores of that NOC's top-scoring man and top-scoring woman in the ranking round summed; the top 16 NOCs will qualify for mixed team competition.[2]

Competition format

A total of 128 athletes competed across the five events: the men's individual, women's individual, men's team, women's team and mixed team.[3] The mixed team event will be a new event for 2020.

All five events will be recurve archery events, held under the World Archery-approved 70-meter distance and rules. The competition will start with an initial ranking round involving all 64 archers of each gender. Each archer will shoot a total of 72 arrows to be seeded from 1–64 according to their score.

The ranking round will also be used to seed the men's and women's teams from 1 to 12, by aggregating the individual scores for the members of each team. In addition, the ranking round will determine the 16 pairs that qualify for the mixed team event (for nations that have both men and women competing, the top men's score and the top women's score are combined) as well as seeding those 16 teams.

Each event will be played in a single-elimination tournament format, except for the semi-final losers, who will play off to decide the bronze medal winner.

Individual events

In the individual events, all 64 competitors will enter the competition at the first round, the round of 64. The draw will be seeded according to the result of the ranking round so the first seed will shoot against the 64th seed in the first round.

Each match will be scored using the Archery Olympic Round, consisting of the best-of-five sets, with three arrows per set. The winner of each set receives two points, and if the scores in the set are tied then each archer receives one point. If at the end of five sets the score is tied at 5–5, a single arrow shoot-off is held and the closest to the center is declared the winner.

Men's and women's team events

In the team events, the top four seeded teams from the ranking round will receive a bye to the quarter-final. The remaining eight teams, seeded 5th to 12th, will compete for the remaining four places in the quarter-finals.

The team event follows the same Archery Olympic Round set system as the individual event.

Mixed team event

The competition format for the new mixed team event has not been released.

Schedule

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9).

Participating nations

Archers from 56 nations participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics, with a similar number expected in 2020. Qualification tournaments include the 2019 World Archery Championships, various continental events, and a final qualification tournament.

Medal summary

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's individual
Men's team
Women's individual
Women's team
Mixed team

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Archery Qualification System Released". Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Tokyo 2020, World Archery, 16 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "Archery". Retrieved 11 July 2018.
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