With the Olympic Games being the pinnacle event for recurve archers, the stakes are high leading into Tokyo.
Even making it to the Tokyo Olympic Games in archery is such an achievement as only 64 men and 64 women from across the world will compete.
In a sport of millimetres, the pressure is on in Tokyo. With each match only lasting 15 minutes, every shot is crucial – one bad arrow and you could be eliminated from the competition.
So get ready to watch the best recurve archers in the world compete over the next week.
Olympic Archery Details
Competition Details: 23-31 July 2021 in Yumenoshima Park in Tokyo, Japan
Bow Type: All archers at the Tokyo Olympic Games will shoot recurve bows.
Events:
- Female Individual
- Male Individual
- Female Team – 3 female archers from the same country
- Male Team – 3 male archers from the same country
- Mixed Team – 1 male and 1 female archer from the same country
Schedule
23 July 2021: Ranking Rounds
9am: Women’s Individual Ranking Round
1pm: Men’s Individual Ranking Round
24 July 2021: Recurve Mixed Team Finals
9:30am: First 1/8 match
9:49am – 3:50pm: Continuation of matches
4:25pm: Mixed Team Bronze Medal Match
4:45pm: Mixed Team Gold Medal Match
25 July 2021: Recurve Women’s Team Eliminations and Finals
9:30am: First 1/8 match
9:53am – 3:40pm: Continuation of matches
4:15pm: Women’s Team Bronze Medal Match
4:40pm: Women’s Team Team Gold Medal Match
26 July 2021: Recurve Men’s Team Eliminations and Finals
9:30am: First 1/8 match
9:53am – 3:40pm: Continuation of matches
4:15pm: Men’s Team Bronze Medal Match
4:40pm: Men’s Team Team Gold Medal Match
27-29 July 2021: Individual Eliminations
Matches begin at 9:30am each day
30 July 2021: Recurve Women’s Finals
9:30am: First 1/8 Elimination Match
9:43am – 4:00pm: Continuation of matches
4:30pm: Women’s Individual Bronze Medal Match
4:45pm: Women’s Individual Gold Medal Match
31 July 2021: Recurve Men’s Finals
9:30am: First 1/8 Elimination Match
9:43am – 4:00pm: Continuation of matches
4:30pm: Men’s Individual Bronze Medal Match
4:45pm: Men’s Individual Gold Medal Match
Notes:
- All times are Tokyo local time
- Each match at the Tokyo Olympic Games will be shot separately
Support Our Australian Archers
David Barnes, Alice Ingley, Ryan Tyack and Taylor Worth are the four Australian archers who are competing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
They will be shooting across 4 events:
- Female Individual: Alice Ingley
- Male Individual: David Barnes, Ryan Tyack and Taylor Worth (as individuals)
- Male Team – David Barnes, Ryan Tyack and Taylor Worth (as 3-person team)
- Mixed Team – Alice Ingley and (yet to be decided) either David Barnes, Ryan Tyack or Taylor Worth
You can find the full breakdown of archery athletes competing in Tokyo here.
Follow The Results
With just a small time difference between Australia and Japan, it’s even easier to tune in and cheer on our Australian athletes at the Olympic Games.
For the Tokyo Olympic Games, we have broken down the time difference for Australia:
- AEST is 1 hour in front of Tokyo
- ACST Time is 30 minutes in front of Tokyo
- AWST is 1 hour behind Tokyo
Channel 7 is the only place to watch the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Australia – it’s live, it’s free and it’s available on TV, on your phone and on demand. Visit the 7plus – Olympic hub here.
You can also follow the scores from the World Archery website here.
Follow the Archery Australia and Australian Olympic Committee’s social media for updates.
Olympics Live In Your Lounge Room
With so many Aussies in lockdown, Olympics Live In Your Lounge Room turns the lockdown blues into green & gold cheers while supporting the Team.
The idea is simple;
- Dress your lounge room green & gold
- Watch Channel 7 live
- Share your fan reactions on social media #TokyoTogether
- Daily prizes to be won via the TeamAUS Hub.
Olympic Archery Explained
Only 64 men and 64 women will compete in Tokyo, making it one of the toughest archery events in the world.
After a series of competitions over the last few years, 51 countries were awarded quota spots based on their archer’s performance at these tournaments. From there, each country has selected the archer/s who would represent them at the Tokyo Olympic Games – it’s not always the archer who wins the quota spot who is selected for the Olympics.
Competition Format
In Tokyo, archers will shoot a ranking round of 72 arrows at a target 70m away that is just 122 centimetres in diameter. The maximum value of each arrow is 10 points and the 10 ring is just 12.2 centimetres in diameter – or about the size of an orange.
The maximum score for each individual archer in the ranking round is 720 points. After this archers and teams will be ranked from first to last in order to prepare for the matchplay component of the tournament.
Current World Records
To give you an idea of scores at the Olympics, we have listed the current world records below:
- Recurve Male: 702 / 720 held by Brady Ellison (USA)
- Recurve Female: 692 / 720 held by Chae Young Kang (Korea)
- Male Team: 2087 / 2160 held by Korea from the London 2012 Olympic Games
- Female Team: 2053 / 2160 held by Korea from the 2018 World Cup in Turkey
- Mixed Team: 1388 / 1440 held by Korea from the 2019 World Archery Championships
Matchplay
Going head to head with the best recurve archers in the world is all about mental fortitude. These archers have worked years to fine tune their technique and now the pressure is on to shoot the best they possibly can in a high pressure environment.
Archers are also tested on how well they can shoot in the heat, humidity, wind, rain – so we’ll need to see what the Tokyo weather brings us.
Individual Matchplay
After completing the ranking round, archers will be ranked from 1st to 64th based on score.
The winner of each match will progress onwards and the loser of the match will be eliminated from the competition.
Archers will shoot 3 arrows per end for a maximum score of 30 points. The highest scoring archer each end will gain 2 set points – first to 6 set points wins the match.
If archers draw an end, they both receive 1 set point each. If after 5 sets the archers are drawn at 5-5, it will go to a one arrow shoot-off. The closest archer to the middle of the target will win the match.
Team Matchplay
For the first time, a mixed team event as well as a team event has been added to the schedule for Tokyo.
In team matchplay the first team to 5 set points wins the match. The highest scoring team each end will gain 2 set points – first to 5 set points wins the match.
If teams draw an end, they both receive 1 set point each. If after 4 sets the archers at drawn are 4-4, it will go to a shoot-off where every member from the team shots 1 arrow. The highest cumulative score in the shoot-off wins the match – if the scores are the same, the team with the closest arrow to the middle wins.
- Mixed Team – 4 arrows per end are shot by 2 archers (2 arrows each) in the same team. First team to 5 set points win.
- Team – 6 arrows per end shot by 3 archers (2 arrows each) in the same team. First team to 5 set points win.
We’re excited to see what the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games has in store for our Australian archers. We wish them all the very best of luck!
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