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

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.

Main article: Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics/Qualification

[edit] References

Sports Competition Schedule. BOCOG (2006-04-17). Retrieved on 2006-08-10.
Archery. (Sports). International Olympic Committee (2006). Retrieved on 2006-08-10.
Programme of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, Beijing 2008 (pdf). International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2006-08-10.

Events at the 2008 Summer Olympics (Beijing)

Archery • Athletics • Badminton • Baseball • Basketball • Boxing • Canoeing • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Football • Gymnastics • Handball • Hockey • Judo • Modern pentathlon • Rowing • Sailing • Shooting • Softball • Swimming • Synchronized swimming • Table tennis • Taekwondo • Tennis • Triathlon • Volleyball • Water polo • Weightlifting • Wrestling

Archery at the Summer Olympics
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