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):

• 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

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

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 tbc
Host Nation Quotas	Brazil	Brazil	-	Brazil	-	-
Tripartite 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.

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.

At the time of writing, the following teams have qualified the necessary archers to take part in a mixed team event at Rio 2016:

Qualifiers for team events at the Paralympic Games 2016 - Archery[5]
Event	Compound W1	Compound Open	Recurve Open
Qualifiers	China Great Britain Russia United States Brazil	China Great Britain Italy South Korea Russia Turkey Canada Brazil	China Great Britain Italy South Korea Russia United States Brazil Iran Poland Thailand
Teams	5	8	10

References

1. Rio qualifiers from Asian Paralympic event. 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.