Archery at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Archery at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí
Dates	6 – 12 August
Competitors	128

Archery at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Individual		men		women
Team		men		women

The archery events at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will be held over a seven day period from 6 to 12 August. Four events will take place, all being staged at the Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí.

Competition format

A total of 128 athletes will compete across the four events: the men's individual, women's individual, men's team and women's team.^[1]

All four events were recurve archery events, held under the World Archery-approved 70-metre 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 was also used to seed the teams from 1 to 12, by aggregating the individual scores for the members of each team.

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 shot 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 will be held and the closest to the center is declared the winner.

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.

For the first time, the team event will follow the same Archery Olympic Round set system as the individual event.

Qualification

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 were able to send a three-member team to the team event and also have each member compete in the individual event. There were 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 Brazil as the host nation, and a further six will be decided by the Tripartite Commission. The remaining 116 places are then allocated through a qualification process, in which archers earned quota places for their respective NOCs, though not necessarily for themselves.

To be eligible to participate in the Olympic Games after the NOC has obtained a quota place, all archers must have achieved the following minimum qualification score (MQS):

• Men: 70m round of 630
• Women: 70m round of 600

The MQS must have been achieved between 26 July 2015 (starting at the 2015 World Archery Championships) and 11 July 2016 at a registered World Archery event.

Medal summary

Medalists

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

See also

• Archery at the 2015 Pan American Games

References

1. "Archery". Retrieved 11 August 2014.
2. "Archery Qualification" (PDF). World Archery Federation. Retrieved 11 August 2014.