Olympic qualifying resumes in Medellin at 2024 Pan Am Champs

Next week is the first of the last big three events that will send archers directly to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

The Pan American Championships is being held in the Colombian city of Medellin for the third time in its 52-year history, after 2000 and 2018. (Melgar, in the region of Tolima, hosted it in 1980.)

Medellin has become a hub for international events over the last decade and will host the World Archery Championships in 2027, bringing the event to South America for the first time.

Next week’s schedule consists of two separate events held back to back: First the individual qualifier for the Olympics then the championships themselves.

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Key information

What’s happening? The Olympic qualification tournament for the Americas on 8-9 April 2024 and the 21st Pan American and Archery Championships on 10-14 April 2024 at Unidad Deportiva de Belen in Medellin, Colombia.

What’s at stake? Continental titles and 10 quota places for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Who’s competing? 206 archers from 23 countries in the championships, 68 archers from 19 countries in the Olympic qualifier.

What’s the story? The team champions at these Pan American Championships book full, three-athlete quotas to Paris. The Mexican women are currently the only squad to have already qualified a team slot. Four more tickets – two per gender – are on offer in the standalone qualifier.

Event schedule

The individual qualifier for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games:

• Monday 8 April: Qualification and eliminations
• Tuesday 9 April: Finals

The 2024 Pan American Archery Championships:

• Wednesday 10 April: Qualification
• Thursday 11 April: Eliminations
• Friday 12 April: Eliminations
• Saturday 13 April: Compound finals
• Sunday 14 April: Recurve finals

Defending champions

See full results from the Santiago 2022 Pan and Para Pan American Championships.

• Recurve men: Marcus D’Almeida, Brazil
• Recurve women: Ana Vazquez, Mexico
• Recurve teams: Mexico (men, women and mixed)
• Compound men: Nick Kappers, USA
• Compound women: Paige Pearce, USA
• Compound teams: USA (men) and Mexico (women and mixed)

How to watch

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Live scores will be available on the World Archery website and there will be coverage on World Archery’s digital platforms throughout the competition. Check Facebook, Instagram and X for more.

Olympic qualifying

The following countries in the Americas have already qualified at least on Olympic quota:

• Brazil: 2 (1 man, 1 woman)
• Canada: 1 (1 man)
• Chile: 1 (1 man)
• Colombia: 1 (1 woman)
• Mexico: 4 (3 women, 1 man)
• USA: 2 (1 man, 1 woman)

There are 10 quota places for the next Olympic Games available in Medellin.

Four places will be awarded in the standalone qualification event, two per gender. Each country can win a maximum of one space. Countries that have already won a spot are not eligible to compete. Archers from the following nations are participating.

• Recurve men: Argentina, Bahamas, Bermuda, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and Venezuela.
• Recurve women: Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and Venezuela.

Six places will be awarded to the team winners at the Pan Am Championships.

If the Mexican recurve women win gold, the places will go to the second-place team. If a nation that already has an individual quota upgrades to a team ticket, the individual place will be returned and reassigned according to the reallocation process.

Who’s competing?

These are the top-ranked archers competing in the Olympic qualifier:

• Recurve men: Nicholas D'Amour, US Virgin Islands (world rank: 11)
• Recurve women: Maydenia Sarduy, Cuba (world rank: 59)

These are the top-ranked archers competing the Pan Am Championships:

• Recurve men: Marcus D’Almeida, Brazil (world rank: 1)
• Recurve women: Casey Kaufhold, USA (world rank: 1)
• Compound men: Jean Pizarro, Puerto Rico (world rank: 8)
• Compound women: Sara Lopez, Colombia (world rank: 2)

A total of 206 (115 men, 91 women) archers from the from the national teams of the following 23 countries are competing at these championships: Argentina, Bahamas, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, USA, US Virgin Islands and Venezuela.

Competition in Medellin begins on Monday. Watch live coverage with a subscription to archery+.