Archery
Australia has a long history with the Olympic Archery grounds as the finals event will be held at Lords Cricket Grounds. Australian archers Elisa Barnard,19, and 21-year-old Taylor Worth have come a long way since winning medals at the 2009 Australian Youth Olympic Festival and came out as the best placed Australians at the final Olympic qualifying tournament in Ogden, Utah in June to seal their positions in the men’s and women’s individual Olympic events.
Unfortunately Australia did not qualify in the team event.
Basic Rules
There are four Olympic archery events (recurve): individual and team for men and women. The aim for all events is to shoot arrows as close to the bullseye as possible accruing points.
All archers and teams compete in a 72-arrow qualification round which determines their placing for the rounds.
The individual competitions are played in knockout format with head-to-head matches. Matches are played over the best of five sets with each set allowing three arrows per archer. The winner of each match qualifies for the next round until the last two archers go head to head for the gold medal.
The team events follow the same format with teams of three archers competing against each other, with the best score after 24 arrows going through.
