Archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics consists of nine events, five for men and four for women. The competitions were held at the Olympic Green Archery Field from September 9 to September 15, 2008.

Archery at the XIII Paralympic Games
Lindsey Carmichael
Venue	Olympic Green Archery Field
Dates	September 9–15

Classification

Archers are given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allows archers to compete against others with a similar level of function.

Archery classes are:

• Wheelchair 1 (W1)
• Wheelchair 2 (W2)
• Standing (ST)

Events

For each of the events below, medals are contested for one or more of the above classifications.

• Men's individual compound
  • Open
  • W1
• Men's individual recurve
  • Standing
  • W1/W2
• Men's team recurve
  • Open
• Women's individual compound
  • Open
• Women's individual recurve
  • Standing
  • W1/W2
• Women's team recurve
  • Open

Participating countries

There were 134 athletes (86 males, 48 females) from 28 countries competing in this sport.

•  Canada (3)
•  China (11)
•  Chinese Taipei (2)
•  Czech Republic (6)
•  Finland (3)
•  France (6)
•  Germany (5)
•  Great Britain (12)
•  Greece (2)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Israel (1)
•  Italy (7)
•  Japan (10)
•  Malaysia (2)
•  Mongolia (2)
•  Netherlands (1)
•  Norway (1)
•  Poland (7)
•  Russia (1)
•  Slovakia (3)
•  South Korea (13)
•  Spain (4)
•  Sweden (4)
•  Switzerland (3)
•  Thailand (3)
•  Turkey (5)
•  Ukraine (8)
•  United States (8)

Medal summary

Medal table

This ranking sorts countries by the number of gold medals earned by their archers (in this context a country is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	2	3	2	7
2	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	1	4
3	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	0	3
4	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	1	2
5	Mongolia (MGL)	1	0	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	0	1
7	Italy (ITA)	0	2	1	3
8	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
10	United States (USA)	0	0	2	2
11	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		9	9	9	27

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual compound	open	John Stubbs  Great Britain	Alberto Simonelli  Italy	Philippe Horner  Switzerland
	W1	David Drahoninsky  Czech Republic	John Cavanagh  Great Britain	Jeff Fabry  United States
Individual recurve	standing	Baatarjav Dambadondog  Mongolia	Fabrice Meunier  France	Chen Yegang  China
	W1/W2	Cheng Changjie  China	Marco Vitale  Italy	Tseng Lung-Hui  Chinese Taipei
Team recurve	open	South Korea (KOR) Cho Hyun Kwan Kim Hong Kyu Lee Hong Gu	China (CHN) Chen Yegang Cheng Changjie Dong Zhi	Italy (ITA) Oscar De Pellegrin Mario Esposito Marco Vitale

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual compound	open	Danielle Brown  Great Britain	Chieko Kamiya  Japan	Mel Clarke  Great Britain
Individual recurve	standing	Lee Hwa-Sook  South Korea	Gao Fangxia  China	Lindsey Carmichael  United States
	W1/W2	Gizem Girişmen  Turkey	Fu Hongzhi  China	Xiao Yanhong  China
Team recurve	open	China (CHN) Fu Hongzhi Goa Fangxia Xiao Yanhong	South Korea (KOR) Kim Ki-Hee Kim Ran-Sook Lee Hwa-Sook	Czech Republic (CZE) Miroslava Cerna Lenka Kuncova Marketa Sidkova

See also

• Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics

References

• "Schedules and Results - Archery". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 11 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-10.

External links

• Official site of the 2008 Summer Paralympics
• IPC
• FITA