China Archery

Tibet’s Nyingchi holds archery competition to celebrate Gongbo New Year
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An amateur archer takes part in the traditional “Gongbo archery” competition in Nyingchi, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, Nov. 19, 2020. A traditional archery competition was held in Nyingchi on Thursday to celebrate the Gongbo New Year. This year, more than 260 archery enthusiasts from Nyingchi participated in the competition. “Gongbo archery“, with a history of over 1,500 year, is a traditional folk sports competition which is unique to Nyingchi. It has been listed as an intangible cultural heritage of Tibet. There are small holes on the wooden cone head of the arrow. When the arrow flies to target, the air passes through the hole and makes a sharp whistling sound. A cloth curtain with a leather target is hung on the other side of the arena. After hitting the target, the arrow falls off together with the inner ring of leather target.
Source: Xinhua/Purbu Zhaxi

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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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.

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