Archery at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Qualification

There were 140 qualifying places available for archery at the 2016 Summer Paralympics: 80 for men and 60 for women.

Each National Paralympic Committee (NPC) is permitted to enter a maximum of 13 competitors, 8 male, 5 female. NPC can enter a further two female athletes in Women's Compound W1 or Compound Open as World individual or mixed team champion in that event, so a theoretical maximum of fifteen archers is possible across the nine events.

NPCs that qualify at least a single individual man and woman in a specific discipline - Compund W1, Compund Open or Recurve Open - are able to enter a two-member mixed team to the relevant team event, while also having each member compete in the individual event. If an NPC qualifies multiple archers in each gender in a specific discipline, however, they remain restricted to a single team in the mixed team event in that discipline.

Six places are reserved for Brazil as the host nation, one in each individual event, and as a consequence, Brazil will enter a team in each of the Mixed Pairs events. A further eleven will be decided by the Bipartite Commission. The remaining 123 places are then allocated through a qualification process, in which archers earned quota places for their respective NPCs, though not necessarily for themselves.

To be eligible to participate in the Paralympic Games after the NPC has obtained a quota place, all archers must be classified with a confirmed or review sports status, to ensure Paralympic eligibility, and have achieved a minimum qualification score (MQS):

The MQS must have been achieved between 1 July 2015 and 1 July 2016.

Timeline

Event Date Venue
Start date for MQS performances 1 July 2015 -
2015 Parapan American Games 7–15 August 2015Canada Toronto
2015 Para Archery World Championships 23–30 August 2015Germany Donaueschingen
2015 Asian qualification event[1] November 2015 Thailand Bangkok
2016 European qualification event
2016 World Archery Europe Para Championships
2–10 April 2016 France Challans
2016 Final World qualification event tbc
Bipartite Commission process 1 May 2016
End date for MQS performances 1 July 2016 -
Final deadline for entries 15 August 2016 -

Qualification details

Places are awarded to the NPC, not the individual athlete. Where an athlete's name appears, the athlete's NPC has selected that athlete to take this place in Rio; this athlete may or may not have gained the qualification.

Qualifiers for the Paralympic Games 2016 - Archery[2]
Qualification Event Men Women
Compound
W1
(max 2 per NPC)
Compound
Open
(max 3 per NPC)
Recurve
Open
(max 3 per NPC)
Compound
W1
(max 2 per NPC)*
Compound
Open
(max 2 per NPC)*
Recurve
Open
(max 3 per NPC)
2015 World Para
Archery Championships
[3]
Donaueschingen, Germany
China
Czech Republic
Finland
Germany
Great Britain
Great Britain
Italy
Russia
United States
Australia
China
Finland
France
Great Britain
Great Britain
Iran
Italy
Italy
Italy
South Korea
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
Switzerland
Turkey
Turkey
United States
United States
China
China
China
Great Britain
Iran
Iran
Iraq
Italy
South Korea
South Korea
South Korea
Mongolia
Poland
Russia
Russia
Russia
United States
United States
Brazil
China
China
Great Britain
Great Britain
South Korea
Russia
Spain
United States
China
China
Great Britain
Italy
South Korea
Russia
Turkey
Brazil
China
China
France
Germany
Great Britain
Greece
Iran
Italy
South Korea
Latvia
Poland
Russia
Russia
Russia
Thailand
Ukraine
Ukraine
Brazil
Brazil
United States
2015 Para PanAmerican Games
Toronto, Canada
N/A United States
[4]
United States
Canada
Brazil
Brazil
N/A Canada
United States
Brazil
2016 Asian Qualifier
Bangkok, Thailand
Iran
China
Thailand
Mongolia
Thailand
Japan China
Iran
2016 European Qualifier
Cevilles, France
Slovakia Russia
Great Britain
France
Italy
France Germany Turkey
Turkey
2016 Final Paralympic Qualifier
Nove Mesto, Czech Republic
France
South Korea
Iceland
Poland
Spain
Czech Republic
Germany
Japan
Chinese Taipei
Czech Republic
Turkey
Iran
Spain
Ukraine
Iraq
Mongolia
Chinese Taipei
Host Nation Quotas
Brazil
Brazil
- Brazil
- -
Bipartite Commission quotas
Total : 140 16 32 32 12 16 32

* extra place available to world champions (individual or mixed pairs) only. Max 1 per NPC for all other nations.
Following the McLaren Report on State sponsored doping in Russia, the Russia Paralympic team was excluded from the Games. As a consequence, Russian qualifiers in Archery were excluded.

Mixed team events

There is no direct qualification for the mixed pairs events, and an NPC may enter one team (1 man, 1 woman) per event if they have qualified those archers from individual events. However, since Rio 2016 quota places in individual events were awarded to the top finishers in the equivalent mixed pairs event at the 2015 World Para Archery Championships in Donau, Germany, a minimum number of teams per event is guaranteed.

On 5 September 2016, the IPC published the full entry lists for all mixed team events in archery. The following teams will enter:

Qualifiers for team events at the Paralympic Games 2016 - Archery[5]
Event Compound
W1
Compound
Open
Recurve
Open
Qualifiers China
Czech Republic
France
Great Britain
South Korea
Spain
United States
Brazil
Canada
China
Great Britain
Iran
Italy
South Korea
Spain
Turkey
Spain
Brazil
China
Chinese Taipei
Czech Republic
France
Germany
Great Britain
Iran
Iraq
Italy
Latvia
Mongolia
Poland
South Korea
Thailand
Turkey
Teams 7 10 16

References

  1. Rio qualifiers from Asian Paralympic event Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.. from World Archery.com
  2. Rio2016 - Paralympic Archery Qualifiers as of 1 September 2015.
  3. Qualifiers for Rio 2016
  4. By winning two quotas at the World Championships, USA exceeded its maximum for this event, and relinquished one of its quota places, which therefore is awarded to Canada.
  5. Rio2016 - Paralympic Archery Qualifiers as of 1 February 2016.
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