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Archery At The 2020 Summer Paralympics – Team Compound Open
The Mixed team compound open is one of three team events held in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north .... It contains eleven teams of one man and one woman, the ranking round having been held on 27 August and the knockout stage on 29 August. Following the ranking round, teams ranked 1st to 5th will immediately go to the quarterfinals while the 6th to 11th teams will have to begin at the 1/8 eliminations. Following the quarterfinals would be the semifinals which then the winners would go to the finals to compete for gold and losers go to the third-place match to compete for bronze. Team compound Open Ranking Round The points are calculated by combining the score, Xs, and 10s of the two archers, in their team, from their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paralympic Archery
Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a Bow and arrow, bow to shooting, shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern times, it is mainly a competitive sport and recreational activity. A person who practices archery is typically called an archer, bowman, or toxophilite. History Origins and ancient archery The oldest known evidence of the bow and arrow comes from South African sites such as Sibudu Cave, where the remains of bone and stone arrowheads have been found dating approximately 72,000 to 60,000 years ago.Backwell L, d'Errico F, Wadley L.(2008). Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35:1566–1580. Backwell L, Bradfield J, Carlson KJ, Jashashvili T, Wadley L, d'Errico F.(2018). The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
