OLYMPIC DOOR STILL OPEN FOR AUSTRALIA

Queensland’s Semra Lingard will get another chance to book a place in Rio next year when she takes part in a mini Olympic qualification shoot-off at the Archery World Championships in Copenhagen on Friday night. Queensland’s Semra Lingard will get another chance to book a place in Rio next year when she takes part in a mini Olympic qualification shoot-off at the Archery World Championships in Copenhagen on Friday night.  Six archers from countries who did not qualify teams for Rio will do battle for three Olympic qualification positions.  Lingard, who made the final 32 of the individual competition before falling to Germany’s Lisa Unruh, is likely to come up against an archer from Azerbaijan in the first round.  A win would move the 25-year-old into the semi-finals.  Australia has already qualified three men for next year’s Olympics, after Taylor Worth, Ryan Tyack and Alec Potts finished top eight in the team’s competition.  Meanwhile Worth went desperately close to a top eight finish in the individual competition overnight.  The London 2012 Olympian finished level with number one qualifier, Italy’s Mauro Nespoli, in their round of 16 match, but then lost on a tie-break arrow.  Western Australia’s Robert Timms was also beaten by a tie-break arrow in the final 16 of the men’s non-Olympic compound event.