Archery

India was the highest-ranked unqualified nation in both the recurve men’s and recurve women’s team categories, at second and eighth respectively, so will upgrade its two individual spots to a full six-athlete squad for Paris 2024.

Bryony Pitman, from Brighton, Sussex, is preparing for her second Olympic Games.

The 27-year-old first appeared at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, representing Team GB in archery.

Ms Pitman claimed two wins to finish ninth in the individual competition.

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Archery has long been celebrated for gender equality in competition. Particularly in the modern era, women have taken an equal role in competition – and increasingly in governance as well.

The sport was among the first to include a women’s event at the Olympics – in 1904 – and World Archery was the first international federation to have a female president.

The available prize money on the Hyundai Archery World Cup has been equal since the international circuit’s inception in 2006. Mixed team competition, which will make its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, sees men and women compete together.

Paralympic Spotlight: Eric Bennett

• Part 1: https://archery360.com/2024/06/18/paralympic-spotlight-eric-bennett-part-1/
• Part 2: https://archery360.com/2024/06/20/paralympic-spotlight-eric-bennett-part-2/

Andrey Tyutyun and Adel Zhexenbinova etched their names in the Kazakhstan archery history books winning their nation's first ever Hyundai World Cup compound mixed team gold medal in Antalya, Türkiye.