Archery at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Archery at the II Summer Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Fangshan Sports Training Base
Dates	August 22–26
Competitors	64 from 43 nations

Archery at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Individual		Boys		Girls
Mixed			Mixed team

Archery at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics was held from August 22 to August 26. The events took place at the Fangshan Sports Training Base in Nanjing, China.

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 2 competitors, 1 per each gender. As hosts, China was given the maximum quota, however they declined the spot for the boys' event and the spot was reallocated to the next best nation at the 2013 World Youth Championships. A further 8, 4 in each gender was to be decided by the Tripartite Commission, but only 5 were given. The spots were reallocated to the next best nations at the 2013 World Youth Championships. The remaining 54 places was decided by qualification events, namely the 2013 World Archery Youth Championships and five continental qualification tournaments.^[1]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 1999. Furthermore, all archers must have achieved the following Minimum Qualification Score (MQS).^[1]

• Men: FITA round of 1220 or 60m round of 610
• Women: FITA round of 1200 or 60m round of 600

The MQS must be achieved between 1 September 2013 and 1 July 2014 at a registered FITA event.^[1]

Boys

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified
Host Nation	-	-	0	China
2013 World Archery Youth Championships[2]	Wuxi	13–20 October 2013	20	Argentina Belgium Belarus Brazil Bulgaria France Great Britain Germany India Italy Japan South Korea Malaysia Mexico Netherlands Poland Slovakia Slovenia Chinese Taipei Turkey
2013 Asian Championships[2]	Taipei	29 Oct-2 Nov 2013	2	Indonesia Philippines
American YOG Qualifying Event[2]	Buenos Aires	2–6 December 2013	2	Canada Venezuela
Oceania YOG Qualifying Event[2]	Auckland	15-16 February 2014	1	Australia
African YOG Qualifying Event[2]	Windhoek	13–16 April 2014	2	Egypt Libya
European YOG Qualifying Event[2]	Ljubljana	19–24 May 2014	2	Switzerland Ukraine
Tripartite Invitation[2]	-	-	3	Bangladesh Myanmar Namibia
TOTAL			32

Girls

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified
Host Nation	-	-	1	China
2013 World Archery Youth Championships[3]	Wuxi	13–20 October 2013	19	Azerbaijan Belarus Brazil Bulgaria Cuba France Great Britain India Indonesia Israel Italy Japan South Korea Mexico Poland Spain Chinese Taipei Turkey Ukraine
2013 Asian Championships[3]	Taipei	29 Oct-2 Nov 2013	2	Kazakhstan Philippines
American YOG Qualifying Event[3]	Buenos Aires	2–6 December 2013	2	Guatemala Venezuela
Oceania YOG Qualifying Event[3]	Auckland	15-16 February 2014	1	Australia
African YOG Qualifying Event[3]	Windhoek	13–16 April 2014	2	Benin Egypt
European YOG Qualifying Event[3]	Ljubljana	19–24 May 2014	3	Finland Germany Slovenia
Tripartite Invitation[3]	-	-	2	Tajikistan Tonga
TOTAL			32

Schedule

The schedule was released by the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee.^[4]

All times are CST (UTC+8)

Medal Summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
-	Mixed-NOCs (MIX)	1	1	1	3
1	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	1	2
2	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
3	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
5	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
Total		3	3	3	9

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys' individual	Lee Woo-seok  South Korea	Marcus Vinicius D'Almeida  Brazil	Atul Verma  India
Girls' individual	Li Jiaman  China	Melanie Gaubil  France	Lee Eun-gyeong  South Korea
Mixed team	Li Jiaman  China Luis Gabriel Moreno  Philippines	Cynthia Freywald  Germany Muhamad Zarif Syahiir Zolkepeli  Malaysia	Mirjam Tuokkola  Finland Eric Peters  Canada

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