2008 Summer Paralympics / Archery

Archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
information
venue	Beijing
Competition venue	Olympic Green archery range
date	September 13-15, 2008
decisions	9
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At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing , medals were awarded in a total of nine archery competitions. The decisions were made between September 13th and September 15th, 2008 in the Olympic Green archery range .

Classes

The Paralympic archery competitions were divided into three classes:

• W1, for archers in wheelchairs with limited arm and leg functions.
• W2, for archers in wheelchairs with limited arm or leg functions.
• ST, for standing archers whose leg functions are limited, but who can still stand.

Results

A total of 136 athletes, 88 male and 48 female, took part in the Paralympic archery competitions. The four competitions for women were an open competition with a compound bow , i.e. open to all classes, and two competitions with the recurve bow , one for W1 and W2 and one for ST. There was also an open team competition. In addition to the identical program for men, there was also the decision to use the compound bow exclusively for W1 athletes.

Men

Compound (open)

space	country	athlete
1	United Kingdom	John Stubbs
2	Italy	Alberto Simonelli
3	Switzerland	Philippe Horner
4th	United States	TJ Pemberton
5

Date: September 13, 2008, 2:50 p.m.

Compound (W1)

space	country	athlete
1	Czech Republic	David Drahoninsky
2	United Kingdom	John Cavanagh
3	United States	Jeff Fabry
4th	Finland	Osmo Kinnunen
5	South Korea	Seung-Pyo An

Date: September 14, 2008, 10:35 a.m.

Recurve (ST)

space	country	athlete
1	Mongolia	Dambadondogiin Baatardschaw
2	France	Fabrice Meunier
3	People's Republic of China	Chen Yegang
4th	Italy	Mario Esposito
5	People's Republic of China	Dong Zhi

Date: September 14, 2008, 2:15 p.m.

Recurve (W1 and W2)

space	country	athlete
1	People's Republic of China	Cheng Changjie
2	Italy	Marco Vitale
3	Chinese Taipei	Lung-Hui Tseng
4th	Turkey	Ozgur Ozen
5	South Korea	Hong-Gu Lee

Date: September 14, 2008, 2:50 p.m.

Recurve (team)

space	country	athlete
1	South Korea	Hong-Gu Lee Hong-Kyu Kim Hyun-Kwan Cho
2	People's Republic of China	Cheng Changjie Chen Yegang Dong Zhi
3	Italy	Mario Esposito Marco Vitale Oscar de Pellegrin
4th	Japan	Tsunehiko Naganuma Takehiro Hasegawa Kimimasa Onodera
5	Poland	Piotr Sawicki Tomasz Lezanski Ryszard Olejnik

Date: September 15, 2008, 4:00 p.m.

Women

Compound (open)

space	country	athlete
1	United Kingdom	Danielle Brown
2	Japan	Chieko Kamiya
3	United Kingdom	Mel Clarke
4th	Turkey	Gulbin Su
5	Sweden	Ann-Christin Nilsson

Date: September 13, 2008, 10:05 am

Recurve (ST)

space	country	athlete
1	South Korea	Hwa-Sook Lee
2	People's Republic of China	Gao Fangxia
3	United States	Lindsey Carmichael
4th	Poland	Malgorzata Olejnik
5	France	Brigitte Duboc

Date: September 13, 2008, 10:35 a.m.

Recurve (W1 and W2)

space	country	athlete
1	Turkey	Gizem grisms
2	People's Republic of China	Fu Hongzhi
3	People's Republic of China	Xiao Yanhong
4th	Japan	Aya Nakanishi
5	France	Maufras du Chatell

Date: September 13, 2008, 2:15 p.m.

Recurve (team)

space	country	athlete
1	People's Republic of China	Xiao Yanhong Fu Hongzhi Gao Fangxia
2	South Korea	Hwa-Sook Lee Ran-Sook Kim Ki-Hee Kim
3	Czech Republic	Lenka Kuncova Marketa Sidkova Miroslava Cerna
4th	Poland	Alicja Bukanska Wieslawa Wolak Malgorzata Olejnik
5	Japan	Yae Yamakawa Kimiko Konishi Ayako Saitoh

Date: September 15, 2008, 4:00 p.m.

Medal table archery

Medal table archery
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
01	People's Republic of China	2	3	2	7th
02	United Kingdom	2	1	1	4th
03	South Korea	2	1	-	3
04th	Czech Republic	1	-	1	2
05	Mongolia	1	-	-	1
	Turkey	1	-	-	1
07th	Italy	-	2	1	3
08th	France	-	1	-	1
	Japan	-	1	-	1
10	United States	-	-	2	2
11	Switzerland	-	-	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	-	-	1	1

Web links

• Results ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )