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Archery at Beijing 2008
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).
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.
Host nation China qualifies 3 athletes per gender automatically when they participate with the same amount of athletes at the 2007 World Outdoor Target Championships in Leipzig. At these championships another 80 spots are given to NOCs. The top 8 nations per gender (apart from China) in the team competition qualify with 3 athletes for the Olympics. Sixteen spots per gender are given to the NOC's with the highest ranked athletes who have not yet qualified through the team competition, again with a maximum of 3 athletes per NOC.
Archers can also qualify through Continental Qualification Tournaments. Those who already qualified as well as nations that don't belong to the continental area may not participate in these Continental Championships. Three spots will be allocated to Asia, Europe and Pan America, while Africa and Oceania both receive 2 spots per gender. At these tournaments there is a maximum of 2 athletes per NOC.
A special tournament called the Final World Qualification Tournament will be held between nations that not have won any quota places through other tournaments. They can qualify a maximum of one athlete per gender per NOC. This tournament will be held from 23 June 2008 until 29 June 2008. Three remaining spots per gender will be allocated by a commission of IOC and FITA members to nations who have submitted athletes but did not yet qualify.
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| The Road to Beijing | ||||
| Date | Tournament | Vacancies (NOCs per gender (Athletes/NOC)) |
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| 5-15 Jul 2007 | 2007 World Outdoor Target Championships Team Event, Leipzig | 8 (3) |
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| 5-15 Jul 2007 | 2007 World Outdoor Target Championships Individual Event, Leipzig | 16 (Max 2) |
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| 7-10 Jan 2008 | African championships, Egypt | 2 (Max 2) | ||
| 14-19 Sep 2007 | Asian Championships, Xian, China | 3 (Max 2) |
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| 6-13 Oct 2007 | Pan-America Continental Qualification Tournament, El Salvador | 3 (Max 2) |
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| 12-18 May 2008 | European Championships, Vittel, France | 3 (Max 2) | ||
| 3-7 Jan 2008 | Oceania Championships, Tahiti | 2 (Max 2) | ||
| 23-29 Jun 2008 | Final World Qualification Tournament | |||
| Host Nation | 1 (3) |
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