Archers win first quota places for 2023 European Games

Article updated with official quota allocation on 10 June 2022. 

Some 74 of the 128 total quota places for the next European Games, scheduled for Krakow-Malopolska in 2023, were won during today’s eliminations at the 2022 European Championships in Munich, Germany.

The quota system means nations must win the right to send athletes to the multisport event.

In the recurve competitions, the top five teams at the championships won full quotas, as well as the individual archers from the next-best-ranked 16 nations. While in the compound events, the individuals representing the top eight ranked countries received tickets. No nation could win more than one quota per individual event.

Among the recurve team qualifiers were the ascendant women’s squad from the championship host nation and Ukraine in the men’s competition. The Ukrainian team is currently living and training in the south of Germany – and their attendance at the Europeans has been facilitated by authorities here.

An additional 12 places were allocated in a secondary tournament held on Friday morning in Munich due to ties in the final rankings at the championships themselves. 

Reigning World Games Champion Stephan Hansen of Denmark was one of the archers to qualify a spot through this route. He beat out reigning World Archery Champion Nico Wiener for the lone remaining compound men’s quota by shooting a perfect 30 to overcome a one-point deficit in the final end of the first-place match and win, 148-147.

Olympian Marie Horackova, representing the Czech Republic, and Luxembourg’s Mariya Shkolna also bagged tickets on Friday morning.

Wiener and any other archers whose countries are without a quota after this primary qualification event will have one last chance to qualify at the Grand Prix scheduled for Great Britain in early 2023.

European Games quotas

Quota places for the archery competitions at the Krakow-Malopolska 2023 European Games assigned per country as of the end of competition at the European Championships on Friday 10 June 2022.

•  Austria: 2 (1 recurve man, 1 recurve woman)
•  Azerbaijan: 1 (1 recurve woman)
•  Belgium: 3 (1 recurve man, 1 recurve woman, 1 compound woman)
•  Bulgaria: 1 (1 recurve woman)
•  Czech Republic: 2 (1 recurve man, 1 recurve woman)
•  Denmark: 5 (3 recurve women, 1 compound man, 1 compound woman)
•  Estonia: 2 (1 recurve woman, 1 compound man)
•  France: 4 (1 recurve man, 1 recurve woman, 1 compound man, 1 compound woman)
•  Finland: 3 (1 recurve man, 1 recurve woman, 1 compound woman)
•  Germany: 5 (1 recurve man, 3 recurve women, 1 compound man)
•  Georgia: 1 (1 recurve woman)
•  Great Britain: 5 (3 recurve men, 1 recurve woman, 1 compound woman)
•  Greece: 1 (1 recurve woman)
• Hungary: 1 (1 recurve man)
•  Italy: 7 (3 recurve men, 3 recurve women, 1 compound woman)
•  Luxembourg: 2 (1 recurve man, 1 compound woman)
•  Moldova: 2 (1 recurve man, 1 recurve woman)
•  Netherlands: 3 (1 recurve man, 1 recurve woman, 1 compound man)
•  Poland: 8 (3 recurve men, 3 recurve women, 1 compound man, 1 compound woman)
•  Portugal: 1 (1 recurve man)
•  Romania: 1 (1 recurve man)
•  Slovakia: 3 (1 recurve man, 1 recurve woman, 1 compound man)
•  Slovenia: 4 (1 recurve man, 3 recurve women)
•  Spain: 5 (3 recurve men, 1 recurve woman, 1 compound man)
•  Sweden: 1 (1 recurve man)
•  Switzerland: 3 (3 recurve men)
•  Turkey: 6 (1 recurve man, 3 recurve women, 1 compound man, 1 compound woman)
• Ukraine: 4 (3 recurve men, 1 recurve woman)