China Archery

Team China won gold and bronze medals at the 2024 Hyundai Archery World Cup at the Riverside Financial Plaza in Pudong’s Lujiazui District over the weekend.
The weeklong competition, which brought together 332 competitors from 46 countries and regions, serves as a ranking event for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Team China won gold and bronze medals at the 2024 Hyundai Archery World Cup at the Riverside Financial Plaza in Pudong’s Lujiazui District over the weekend.
The weeklong competition, which brought together 332 competitors from 46 countries and regions, serves as a ranking event for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
South Korea is an archery superpower, having won the Olympics’ women’s recurve team championship nine times in a row.

Chinese archers struggled early on Sunday. But they took advantage of the mistakes of their opponents and raced ahead.
“The key to winning is mental construction,” Yang Xiaolei said. “The South Korean team serves as a reference point. We give it our all every time we meet them.”
Despite the drizzle, hundreds of local fans turned out to watch the finals.

“Since its inception in 2006, the Archery World Cup has changed the city’s attitude toward archery. It is no longer a niche sport,” said Guo Bei, Honorary Vice Chairman of the Asian Archery Federation.

After the tournament, the Pudong New Area authorities took the international athletes on a boat ride around the Huangpu River. They sampled local cuisine and listened to Jiangnan (the southern part of the Yangtze River’s lower reaches) music.

The World Cup will head to South Korea and Turkey next.

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World Archery Asia has released a preliminary calendar of continental events for 2023.

The tentative schedule respects the international blocks announced by World Archery for the 2021-2024 seasons and includes an Asian Championships, three Asia Cup legs and the rescheduled Asian Games.

Hangzhou was initially scheduled to host the Asian and Para Asian Games in 2022 but the multisport events were delayed, along with the World University Games, due to ongoing pandemic measures in China.

The Asian Games and Asian Championships will act as continental qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The qualifying period starts with the 2023 Hyundai World Archery Championships in Berlin next summer.

World Archery Asia is also expected to host its congress during the championships in Thailand.
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China have secured a full quota of six in archery, three in men’s event and three in women’s, for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the 2019 World Archery Championships in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

According to the qualification standard, the top eight finishers in the recurve team’s event of each gender win three places for Tokyo 2020.

China defeated India 6-2 on Sunday to win their first-ever world championship in recurve men’s team event, therefore securing three spots in men’s event at the Olympics.

“I’m very honoured to be on the stage of the world championships and I’m very proud to represent China by winning this honour,” Wei Shaoxuan was quoted as saying by the official website of World Archery.

World No. 1 South Korea frustrated hosts the Netherlands 5-3 to win a bronze.

In the women’s team event, Chinese Taipei made a breakthrough winning maiden world title as they upset world record holders South Korea 6-2 in the final. Semifinalists China secured full quota for Tokyo 2020 despite a bitter 5-4 loss to Britain in the bronze final.

“Before we came here, our goal was to win all six quotas and let our athletes gain experience through the matches,” China’s team manager Xiao Haopeng told Xinhua. “The world championships experience will help us identify problems and make adjustment in future training.”
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