2008 Olympic Games

Archery at the 2008 Olympic Games will be held over a seven day period starting August 9 and ending August 15. The events will take place at the Olympic Green Archery Field, a temporary venue on the Olympic Green, Beijing’s Olympic Park.

The athlete quota for archery is 128 athletes, 64 men and 64 women. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can have up to a maximum of six athletes, three per gender.

Qualification events:

• 31 December 2006, FITA publishes the calendar and locations of the Continental Qualification Tournaments.

• 5 July 2007, start of the Minimum Qualification Score period.

• 5 July 2007 - 15 July 2007, 2007 World Outdoor Target Championships in Leipzig.

• 14 September - 19 September 2007, Asian Championships, Xian, China

• 6 October - 13 October 2007, World Ranking Tournament (PanAmerica Continental Qualification Tournament), El Salvador

• 12 May - 18 May 2008, European Championships, Vittel, France

• May-June, African Championships, Egypt

• May-June, Oceanian Championships, Tahiti

• 23 June 2008 - 29 June 2008, Final World Qualification Tournament, Boe, France.

• 16 July 2008, end of the Minimum Qualification Score period.

• 18 July 2008, FITA reallocated unused quota places.

The events programme for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is quite similar to that of the Athens Games held in 2004. The 2008 Olympics will see the return of 28 sports, and will hold 302 events (165 men’s events, 127 women’s events, and 10 mixed events), one more event in total than in Athens.The following are the sports to be contested at the games (The number of events to be contested in each sport is indicated in parentheses):

• Aquatics (46)
• Archery (4)
• Athletics (47)
• Badminton (5)
• Baseball (1)
• Basketball (2)
• Boxing (11)
• Canoe / kayak (16)
• Cycling (18)
• Equestrian (6)
• Fencing (10)
• Football/Soccer (2)
• Gymnastics (18)
• Handball (2)
• Hockey (2)
• Judo (14)
• Modern pentathlon (2)
• Rowing (14)
• Sailing (11)
• Shooting (15)
• Softball (1)
• Table tennis (4)
• Taekwondo (8)
• Tennis (4)
• Triathlon (2)
• Volleyball (4)
• Weightlifting (15)
• Wrestling (18)