The mixed team archery event was one of five archery events to take place at the 2020 Summer Olympics. It was held at Yumenoshima Park, with the ranking rounds taking place on 23 July and match play on 24 July. 16 teams competed in the knockout rounds, with the qualifying teams determined by the ranking rounds in which 29 different nations had at least one archer in each of the men's and women's divisions.
Background
This was a new event at the 2020 Games, in the first change to the archery programme since men's and women's team events were added in 1988.
The mixed team event was first contested at a World Cup event in 2007. It was added as a demonstration event to the 2009 World Archery Championships, then as a full event to the 2011 World Archery Championships. It has been on the Youth Olympics programme since the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and on the Paralympic program since the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Qualification
No quota spots are allocated directly to the mixed team event. Instead, qualifying for the mixed team competition is done at the Games themselves, during the men's and women's ranking rounds. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) with at least one archer in both the men's individual and women's individual events has an opportunity to qualify. The score of the top man and top woman in the ranking round for each such NOC are summed to give a mixed team ranking round score; the top 16 NOCs qualify for the mixed team event's match play rounds.
Competition format
As with the other archery events, the mixed team was a recurve archery event, held under the World Archery-approved 70-meter distance and rules. 16 teams of 2 archers (one man, one woman) each participate in the match play rounds. Competition begins with the ranking round, in which each archer shoots 72 arrows (these are the same ranking rounds used for the men's individual event and women's individual event). The combined scores from the ranking round are used to seed the teams into a single-elimination bracket (with only the top 16 teams advancing). Each match consists of four sets of 4 arrows, two per archer. The team with the highest score in the set – the total of the four arrows – receives two set points; if the teams are tied, each receives one set point. The first team to five set points wins the match. If the match is tied at 4–4 after 4 sets, a tie-breaker set is used with each archer on the team shooting one arrow; if the score of the tie-breaker set remains tied, the closest arrow to the center wins.
Records
This was a new event at the 2020 Games and therefore did not have an Olympic record. Prior to this competition, the existing world record was as follows.
144 arrow ranking round
Schedule
All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)
The schedule for the mixed team event covered two separate days of competition.
Date Time Round Friday, 23 July 2021 9:0013:00 Women's ranking roundMen's ranking round Saturday, 24 July 2021 9:3014:1515:3116:2516:45 1/8 finalsQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsBronze medal matchGold medal match
Results
Ranking round
Rank Nation Archers Score 10s Xs 1 Kim Je-deokAn San 1368 (OR) Q 79 31 2 Brady EllisonMackenzie Brown 1350 Q 69 24 3 Hiroki MutoAzusa Yamauchi 1343 Q 67 19 4 Luis ÁlvarezAlejandra Valencia 1336 Q 60 23 5 Wei ShaoxuanYang Xiaolei 1328 Q 57 11 6 Steve WijlerGabriela Schloesser 1327 Q 60 15 7 Mete GazozYasemin Anagöz 1321 Q 57 18 8 Tang Chih-chunLin Chia-en 1319 Q 59 13 9 Pravin JadhavDeepika Kumari 1319 Q 52 18 10 Galsan BazarzhapovKsenia Perova 1317 Q 53 16 11 Mauro NespoliChiara Rebagliati 1316 Q 52 15 12 Patrick HustonSarah Bettles 1311 Q 55 20 13 Florian UnruhMichelle Kroppen 1309 Q 49 12 14 Pierre PlihonLisa Barbelin 1307 Q 55 16 15 Riau Ega AgathaDiananda Choirunisa 1297 Q 52 15 16 Ruman ShanaDiya Siddique 1297 Q 47 16 17 Crispin DuenasStephanie Barrett 1295 38 10 18 Oleksii HunbinVeronika Marchenko 1291 57 18 19 Khairul Anuar MohamadSyaqiera Mashayikh 1291 46 15 20 Marcus Vinicius D'AlmeidaAne Marcelle dos Santos 1287 39 14 21 Daniel CastroInés de Velasco 1278 39 11 22 Dan OlaruAlexandra Mîrca 1275 40 11 23 Nguyễn Hoàng Phi VũĐỗ Thị Ánh Nguyệt 1275 38 8 24 Sławomir NapłoszekSylwia Zyzańska 1267 43 16 25 Taylor WorthAlice Ingley 1267 36 11 26 Daniel PinedaValentina Acosta 1266 38 11 27 Otgonbold BaatarkhuyagBishindeegiin Urantungalag 1260 36 8 28 Mohamed HammedRihab Elwalid 1240 28 8 29 Youssof TolbaAmal Adam 1215 35 13
Note: China swapped out its highest scoring archers from the ranking round. Wang Dapeng and Wu Jiaxin will compete in the final rounds. France swapped out its highest scoring men's archer from the ranking round. Jean-Charles Valladont will compete in the final rounds.
Competition bracket
The figure in italics signifies the set scores.
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