Event: | Women's individual |
Games: | 2020 Summer |
Venue: | Yumenoshima Park |
Date: | 23 July 2021 (ranking round) 27–29 July 2021 (match play) 31 July 2021 (finals) |
Nations: | 40 |
Competitors: | 64 |
Gold: | An San |
Goldnoc: | KOR |
Silver: | Elena Osipova |
Silvernoc: | ROC |
Bronze: | Lucilla Boari |
Bronzenoc: | ITA |
Prev: | 2016 |
Next: | 2024 |
The women's individual archery event was one of five archery events held at the 2020 Summer Olympics. It was held at Yumenoshima Park.[1] There were 64 competitors from 40 nations, with each nation having either 1 or 3 archers.
This was the 13th consecutive Olympic appearance of the event, which has been held every Games since archery returned to the Olympic program in 1972.
Five of the 8 quarterfinalists from the 2016 Games returned: silver medalist Lisa Unruh of Germany, fourth-place finisher Alejandra Valencia of Mexico, and quarterfinalists Tan Ya-ting of Chinese Taipei, Wu Jiaxin of China, and Naomi Folkard of Great Britain. Ranking round world record holder Kang Chae-young of South Korea competed. The 2019 World Champion Lei Chien-ying joined Tan on the Chinese Taipei team (Kang was the bronze medalist).
See main article: Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification.
64 archers qualify for the women's archery events. The 12 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) that qualify for the women's team event (including the host, Japan) enter the 3 team members in the individual event as well. Otherwise, NOCs may qualify a maximum of 1 archer in women's individual. There are quota spots available at various tournaments, including the World Championships, multiple continental events, and a final qualification tournament. There are also two Tripartite Commission invitational spots.
As with the other archery events, the women's individual is a recurve archery event, held under the World Archery-approved 70-meter distance and rules. Competition begins with a ranking round, in which each archer shoots 72 arrows. The scores from the ranking round are used to seed the archers into a single-elimination bracket. The knockout matches use the set system introduced in 2012. Each match consists of up to 5 sets of 3 arrows per archer. The archer with the best score in each set wins the set, earning 2 points. If the score is tied, each archer receives 1 point. The first archer to score 6 points wins the match. If the match is tied 5-5 after 5 sets, a single tie-breaker arrow is to be used with the closest to center winning.[2]
Prior to the competition, the world and Olympic records were as follows.
The schedule for the women's individual event covers five separate days of competition.[1]
All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)
Date | Time | Round | |
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Friday, 23 July 2021 | 9:00 | Ranking round | |
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 Wednesday, 28 July 2021 Thursday, 29 July 2021 | 9:30 16:00 | 1/32 finals 1/16 finals | |
Friday, 30 July 2021 | 9:30 14:45 15:45 16:30 16:44 | 1/8 finals Quarter-finals Semi-finals Bronze medal match Gold medal match |
The ranking round was held on 23 July 2021.[3]