Archery at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Qualification

Main article: Archery at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

There were 140 qualifying places available for archery at the 2016 Summer Paralympics: 80 for men and 60 for women.

Each National Paralympic Committee (NPC) is permitted to enter a maximum of 13 competitors, 8 male, 5 female. NPC can enter a further two female athletes in women's compound W1 or compound open as world individual or mixed team champion in that event, so a theoretical maximum of fifteen archers is possible across the nine events.

NPCs that qualify at least a single individual man and woman in a specific discipline – compound W1, compound open or recurve open – are able to enter a two-member mixed team to the relevant team event, while also having each member compete in the individual event. If an NPC qualifies multiple archers in each gender in a specific discipline, however, they remain restricted to a single team in the mixed team event in that discipline.

Six places are reserved for Brazil as the host nation, one in each individual event, and as a consequence, Brazil will enter a team in each of the Mixed Pairs events. A further eleven will be decided by the Bipartite Commission. The remaining 123 places are then allocated through a qualification process, in which archers earned quota places for their respective NPCs, though not necessarily for themselves.

To be eligible to participate in the Paralympic Games after the NPC has obtained a quota place, all archers must be classified with a confirmed or review sports status, to ensure Paralympic eligibility, and have achieved a minimum qualification score (MQS):

• Men's ind. compound W1: 575
• Men's ind. compound open: 630
• Men's ind. recurve open: 560
• Women's ind. compound W1: 500
• Women's ind. compound open: 600
• Women's ind. recurve open: 520

The MQS must have been achieved between 1 July 2015 and 1 July 2016.

Timeline

Event	Date	Venue
Start date for MQS performances	1 July 2015	-
2015 Parapan American Games	7–15 August 2015	Toronto
2015 Para Archery World Championships	23–30 August 2015	Donaueschingen
2015 Asian qualification event	November 2015	Bangkok
2016 European qualification event 2016 World Archery Europe Para Championships	2–10 April 2016	Challans
2016 Final World qualification event	tbc
Bipartite Commission process	1 May 2016
End date for MQS performances	1 July 2016	-
Final deadline for entries	15 August 2016	-

Qualification details

Places are awarded to the NPC, not the individual athlete. Where an athlete's name appears, the athlete's NPC has selected that athlete to take this place in Rio; this athlete may or may not have gained the qualification.

Qualifiers for the Paralympic Games 2016 - Archery
Qualification Event	Men			Women
	Compound W1 (max 2 per NPC)	Compound Open (max 3 per NPC)	Recurve Open (max 3 per NPC)	Compound W1 (max 2 per NPC)*	Compound Open (max 2 per NPC)*	Recurve Open (max 3 per NPC)
2015 World Para Archery Championships Donaueschingen, Germany	China  Czech Republic  Finland  Germany  Great Britain  Great Britain  Italy  Russia  United States	Australia  China  Finland  France  Great Britain  Great Britain  Iran  Italy  Italy  Italy  South Korea  Russia  Slovakia  South Africa  Switzerland  Turkey  Turkey  United States  United States	China  China  China  Great Britain  Iran  Iran  Iraq  Italy  South Korea  South Korea  South Korea  Mongolia  Poland  Russia  Russia  Russia  United States  United States  Brazil	China  China  Great Britain  Great Britain  South Korea  Russia  Spain  United States	China  China  Great Britain  Italy  South Korea  Russia  Turkey  Brazil	China  China  France  Germany  Great Britain  Greece  Iran  Italy  South Korea  Latvia  Poland  Russia  Russia  Russia  Thailand  Ukraine  Ukraine  Brazil  Brazil  United States
2015 Para PanAmerican Games Toronto, Canada	—	United States  United States  Canada	Brazil  Brazil	—	Canada	United States  Brazil
2016 Asian Qualifier Bangkok, Thailand	Iran	China  Thailand	Mongolia  Thailand		Japan	China  Iran
2016 European Qualifier Cevilles, France	Slovakia	Russia  Great Britain	France  Italy	France	Germany	Turkey  Turkey
2016 Final Paralympic Qualifier Nove Mesto,	France  South Korea	Iceland  Poland  Spain	Czech Republic  Germany  Japan  Chinese Taipei	Czech Republic  Turkey	Iran  Spain  Ukraine	Iraq  Mongolia  Chinese Taipei
Host Nation Quotas	Brazil	Brazil	-	Brazil	-	-
Bipartite Commission quotas
Total : 140	16	32	32	12	16	32

* extra place available to world champions (individual or mixed pairs) only. Max 1 per NPC for all other nations.
Following the McLaren Report on State sponsored doping in Russia, the  Russia Paralympic team was excluded from the Games. As a consequence, Russian qualifiers in Archery were excluded.

Mixed team events

There is no direct qualification for the mixed pairs events, and an NPC may enter one team (1 man, 1 woman) per event if they have qualified those archers from individual events. However, since Rio 2016 quota places in individual events were awarded to the top finishers in the equivalent mixed pairs event at the 2015 World Para Archery Championships in Donau, Germany, a minimum number of teams per event is guaranteed.

On 5 September 2016, the IPC published the full entry lists for all mixed team events in archery. The following teams will enter:

Qualifiers for team events at the Paralympic Games 2016 - Archery
Event	Compound W1	Compound Open	Recurve Open
Qualifiers	China  Czech Republic  France  Great Britain  South Korea  Spain  United States	Brazil  Canada  China  Great Britain  Iran  Italy  South Korea  Spain  Turkey  Spain	Brazil  China  Chinese Taipei  Czech Republic  France  Germany  Great Britain  Iran  Iraq  Italy  Latvia  Mongolia  Poland  South Korea  Thailand  Turkey
Teams	7	10	16