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Four quota places reassigned as final Olympic line-up confirmed

2 July 2021

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Jeff Henckels shoots during the final qualifier for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Four quota places for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have been reassigned to Belgium, Estonia, Luxembourg and Malaysia in the final phase of deciding the line-up in Japan.

Spots won by Chad (man) and Cote d’Ivoire (woman) at the 2019 African Games were returned due to neither country having an athlete who had achieved the minimum standard set for archers at the Olympics. (Men must have shot at least one 72-arrow 70-metre qualifying of 640 points and women one of 605 points.)

New Zealand returned its women’s quota, just a week after surrendering its men ticket, meaning it will not be represented in Tokyo.

That men’s place went to Fiji due to a previous reallocation on the results of the Oceania championships – but the invitation was not accepted by the Fijian Olympic Committee.

All four spots were reallocated according to the world ranking list issued on 28 June 2021.

Luxembourg’s Jeff Henckels, ranked 33rd, and Belgium’s Jarno de Smedt in 44th were the highest-ranked recurve men representing countries without a Tokyo quota. In 58th, Nur Aliya Ghapar of Malaysia and Estonia’s number 74, Reena Parnat, were the highest-ranked recurve women. These athletes will not necessarily be sent to the Games.

Belgium, Estonia and Luxembourg are all additions to the nations line-up in Tokyo.

The women’s place for Malaysia, critically, gives the country a mixed team as Khairul Anuar Mohamad won a men’s spot with his silver medal at the 2019 Hyundai World Archery Championships in ’s-Hertogenbosch.

A total of 51 countries will compete in the archery competitions at Tokyo 2020.