China Archery

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.

China’s Wei Shaoxuan takes the final shot during the recurve men’s team event final between China and India at the 2019 Archery World Championships on Jun 16, 2019 in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. [Photo: CCTV]

“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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BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) — China’s Zhang Mengyao won the girls’ recurve individual archery gold medal at the Youth Olympics by beating Spain’s Elia Canales in the final here on Tuesday.

Zhang Mengyao of China competes during Archery Women’s Recurve Individual Semifinal

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The Korean recurve women’s team did take a ninth gold at the event.

Chinese Taipei’s compound pair and recurve men’s team upset top-ranked Korea to win gold medals at the 2018 Asian Games, leaving only the Korean women with a title on the first day of finals in Jakarta.

“Our whole year has been working towards this. Winning gold is a great honour for our country,” said mixed team member and top compound women’s qualifier Chen Yi-Hsuan, with partner Pan Yu Ping.

The compound mixed team final was neck-and-neck.

Tied with reigning World Archery Champion Korea on 76 points at the halfway point, Chinese Taipei’s Chen and Pan edged one point ahead after 12 arrows.

“We felt really confident going into the final end,” said the Taipei pair. “We had done a lot of practise of this [situation] and it was a really enjoyable match.”

After two arrows, Korea had levelled the match – but Kim Jongho’s last-arrow eight nullified a comeback, giving Chinese Taipei the match, 151-150.

The recurve men’s team final was equally as close.