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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 is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea .... 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 arrows (not found with surviving bows) comes from South Africa, 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-arro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
