First step towards Youth Olympics in Nanjing 2014 Wuxi - Friday, October 18, 2013 The first qualifying event for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games took place today in Wuxi. Seventeen places per gender were allocated to countries across the world. At the first qualifying event for the next Youth Olympics Games in Wuxi, 17 young men and 17 young women won quota places at the archery event at Nanjing 2014. The archery competition in Nanjing will see 64 athletes - 32 men and 32 women - contest podiums at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games. Young archers battled through today’s special qualification tournament to claim the first available competitor places for their countries. Today’s tournament was open to athletes eligible to compete in the Nanjing Games – those born between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 1999 – with a maximum of three archers per National Olympic Committee (NOC). Archers were seeded according to their qualification scores from the Youth World Championships ranking round, and shot eliminations from 1/64th to 1/16th at 60m. NOCs with archers who won in the 1/16th round were awarded a maximum of one Youth Olympic Games place per gender. The losers in the 1/16th were then reseeded, competition brackets were reset and these archers continued the competition: vying for the remaining Youth Olympic qualifying positions. The following countries won men’s quota places by having an archer in the top sixteen (the archer, or archers, who won the spot are in brackets): Argentina (Francisco RODRIGUEZ), Brazil (Marcus Vinicius D’ALMEIDA), Chinese Taipei (HAN Yun-Chien), France (Thomas KOENIG and Mathieu JIMENEZ), Germany (Andreas MAYR), Great Britain (Bradley DENNY), Korea (IM Ungyu, KIM Dongil, YOON Harim), Malaysia (M. NORHAIRULNIZAM ROSDI and Muhamad Zarif SYAHIIR ZOLKEPELI), Netherlands (Jan VAN TONGEREN), Poland (Marek SZAFRAN), Slovenia (Gasper STRAJHAR) and Turkey (Orkun Ege TOKUSOGLU). The last five men’s quota places went to Belarus (Kiryl FIRSAU), Belgium (Rick MARTENS), Mexico (Luis Angel TAPIA), India (Ranjit NAIK, Atul VERMA) and Slovakia (Boris BALAZ). The following countries won women’s quota places by having an archer in the top sixteen (the archer, or archers, who won the spot are in brackets): Belarus (Sviatlana KAZANSKAYA), France (Mélanie GAUBIL), Great Britain (Bryony PITMAN), India (Sulekha SINGH), Indonesia (Diananda CHOIRUNISA - photo), Israel (Maya RAYSIN), Korea (LEE Hyeseon) Japan (Miasa KOYKE), Mexico (Rebeca MARQUEZ), Poland (Sylwia ZYZANSKA), Russia (Valeria MYLNIKOVA), Spain (Alicia MARIN), Turkey (Yasemin Ecem ANAGOZ), Ukraine (Solomiya GNYP and Viktoria OLEKSIYK) and United States (Eliana CLAPS). Italy (Vanessa LANDI) and Chinese Taipei (HUANG Li-Ting) won the last two women’s quota places available, after emerging as the best of the 1/16th round losers. NOCs now own the places won at today’s competition. National archery federations will nominate the archers they wish to represent their country at the Games, and then request acceptance from their NOCs. Countries who did not win qualification places today have an opportunity to claim spots at their respective continental qualifying tournaments. Between October 2013 and May 2014, 10 quota places will be distributed in the five continents as follows: Europe 3, Asia 2, Americas 2, Africa 2 and Oceania 1. Host nation China automatically receives one quota place per gender. The four remaining spots are universality places, and are given to countries under-represented at the last Youth Olympics. All athletes have to reach the Games’ minimum qualification standard before next years event to compete in Nanjing. Including todays results and the division of continental quotas yet to be awarded, the archery at Nanjing will have the following continental representation: 41% from Europe, 33% from Asia, 14% from the Americas, 8% from Africa and 5% from Oceania. These numbers are provisional pending NOC approval and confirmation of the invitation places.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 08:31:58 +0000
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