Quota places available at the Jakarta 2018 Asian Games have now been assigned. Based on the results of the final Asian Games held in Jakarta in 2018, Indonesia and DPR Korea were offered two quota locations each, one of every gender, for the archery competitions at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The 4 to be had spots had been assigned, considering the consequences of the 2019 Hyundai World Archery Championships. According to the Olympic qualification manner, up to four quota locations are presented at each African, Pan-American, Asian, European, and Pacific Games. They are provided to the nations of the pinnacle-ranked recurve combined crew and pinnacle-ranked recurve men and women that constitute a country now not already qualified. The character spots are the handiest available at the Asian, European, and Pan American Games.
(Spaces are limited to the top 4 finishers. Any leftover spots are delivered to the very last qualification event.)
At the 2018 Asian Games, DPR Korea’s Pak Yongwon and Kang Un Ju finished second to Japan in the recurve mixed crew competition. Since Japan will acquire the host’s U.S. complete quota on the qualification technique, DPR Korea will get the combined group spot from Jakarta.
Korea’s Kim Woojin and Lee Woo Seok came first and 2d in the recurve guys’ competition – however, Korea certified a full team at the world championships. Third-located Riau Ega Agatha of Indonesia receives the guys’ quota region for the Games. Agatha famously disillusioned Woojin in the second round at the Olympics in 2016.
His teammate Diananda Choirunisa misplaced the recurve women’s gold medal fit China’s Zhang Xinyan in Jakarta. However, again, China secured a complete crew quota inside the girls’ competition worldwide, so Indonesia collected the spot.
The subsequent opportunity for athletes to win quota locations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus. As for the Asian Games, as many as four locations are to be had. Only European archers are competing. India’s Sania Mirza has stormed into the area-finals of the women’s singles occasion at the Asian Games, wherein she will meet Thailand’s Tamarine Tanasugarn. Sania stands at 166th within the WTA rankings simultaneously as Tamarine is ranked 108 locations above her, at 58.
The women have met four instances within the beyond, and their head-to-head file is despite each winning twice. Their closing assembly becomes at Birmingham on grass, earlier this 12 months. The Thai girl trumped the Indian on the event, and the score-line read 4-6, 7 five, 6-1 in Tanasugarn’s favor.
Interestingly, both of Sania’s wins against Tamarine have come within the Thai lady’s backyard in Pattaya, Thailand. The remaining event occurred in June 2009, during which the Indian woman prevailed in instant sets in a 1 / 4-final match, with the last rating studying 7-five, 6-four.
Sania’s other win was at the same event in 2007, when she wished three units to surpass her Thai opponent in the second round. The Indian female took the first set 6-four, only to see the Thai female rebound by prevailing the second 6-2. Sania became string for Tamarine in the 1/3 set and closed the suit with a facile 6-1.
