Brady Ellison and Reo Wilde, both from the USA, will shoot in the seventh Hyundai Archery World Cup Finals in 2016. (Brady’s are consecutive.) Sara Lopez has a chance to win three in a row, and Choi Misun and Demir Elmaagacli defend their first circuit crowns, won in Mexico City at the end of 2015.
In 2016, archers won points over three competitions (rather than four, due to the Olympics taking space in the calendar), starting in Shanghai, then visiting Medellin and finishing in Antalya.
Seven athletes in each of the four divisions qualify over the year, with an eighth representing the host country guaranteed a spot. No nation may have more than two qualified archers.
With the medal matches still left to shoot at stage three, 22 of the 28 spots in Odense are already filled. Division by division, here’s who has qualified and what is still left to decide…
(Archers competing in the Antalya medal matches are marked *. Rankings unofficial.)
Recurve women
Chinse Taipei’s Tan Ya-Ting can’t be knocked off the top seed and defending champ Choi Misun is locked into the number two rank for Odense.
It’s made complicated because five of the top 10 in the rankings are from Korea, but Chang Hye Jin – the only athlete from the nation still in play, aside from Misun, in Antalya – can’t catch the Olympic Champion, so Ki Bo Bae’s a lock, too. Neither she nor Guendalina Sartori medalled on the circuit in 2016 – but top-eight finishes count, too.
Deepika Kumari and Tuiana Dashidorzhieva are drawn on points for the seventh spot and neither can win any more. It’ll be decided on world ranking at the close of competition in Antalya.
(Before Antalya, Deepika was ranked fifth, Tuiana 28th.)
Pick one
Recurve men
The top seed, Ku Bonchan, is locked, and the most winning archer in Hyundai Archery World Cup history, Brady Ellison, will go to his seventh consecutive Final.
Wei Chun-Heng, Sjef van den Berg, Zach Garrett, Ernesto Boardman and Ku are all first-time finallists.
The reigning and the previous World Archery Champions must decide the last spot – both in Antalya finals, but shooting in different matches. If Kim Woojin wins Antalya bronze, he’s in. If Kim loses to Atanu Das and Lee Seungyun loses the gold final (to Ku), Kim’s in. If Kim loses and Lee wins – Lee’s in.
Got it?
Pick one
Compound women
A chance at an historical third Hyundai Archery World Cup Champion title in a row beckons for Colombia’s Sara Lopez. No one’s ever done it before – as while Ellison has three, only two came consecutively.
If Yesim Bostan wins Antalya bronze, she earns an Odense berth – and either Lily Chanu Paonam or Dahlia Crook joins her in the last spot. (Dahlia’s if she wins Antalya gold, decided by world ranking if she takes silver.)
If Yesim Bostan comes fourth in Antalya, Paonam and Crook are in whatever happens.
Bubble
Compound men
Though the situation seems unclear, it’s down to the fact that Evren Cagiran and Samet Can Yakali – the Turkish athletes that will shoot for compound men’s gold in Antalya – had no points prior to the event.
At least one of them will take maximum ranking points from Antalya, and join the three tied on 25, in fourth position. (That could go to three, if Domagoj Buden wins bronze, but that only affects the rank, not the qualification.)
Either way, 2013 Champion Martin Damsbo drops out, and it’s a gold final in Antalya to decide which of Evren and Samet joins defending Hyundai Archery World Cup Champion Demir Elmaagacli – also from Turkey – in Odense.
Pick one
Final rosters for the Odense 2016 Hyundai Archery World Cup Final are expected to be announced immediately after the conclusion of stage three in Antalya, Turkey.
