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, five events of

archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to 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 m ...

were contested, all in the

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format, with recurve bows. The events took place at the

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/ref> over seven days of competition. The European Games format followed that of the Olympic Games with 64 men and 64 women competing in the recurve division, in individual and team events as well as in mixed team.

Qualification

A total of 128 athletes will compete at the Games. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) is permitted to enter a maximum of six competitors, three per gender. NOCs that qualified teams for a particular gender were able to send a three-member team to the team event and also have each member compete in the individual event. Six places will be reserved for Azerbaijan as the host nation, on the condition that they enter three athletes per gender at the 2014 European Championships.http://www.olympics.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/BEGOC-Sport-Qualification-AR.pdf There will a total of five medal events and a capacity of 3,400. Archery will also offer the opportunity to win ranking points for Rio 2016 Summer Olympics qualification.

Medal summary

Medal table

References

External links

Results book
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