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 – compound W1, compound 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):

  • Men's ind. compound W1: 575
  • Men's ind. compound open: 630
  • Men's ind. recurve open: 560
  • Women's ind. compound W1: 500
  • Women's ind. compound open: 600
  • Women's ind. recurve open: 520

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

Timeline

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Event Date Venue
Start date for MQS performances 1 July 2015 -
2015 Parapan American Games 7–15 August 2015   Toronto
2015 Para Archery World Championships 23–30 August 2015   Donaueschingen
2015 Asian qualification event[1] November 2015   Bangkok
2016 European qualification event
2016 World Archery Europe Para Championships
2–10 April 2016   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

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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
  United States
[4]
  United States
  Canada
  Brazil
  Brazil
  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,  
  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

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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

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  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". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-09-15.
  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.