2015 World Archery Championships

2015 World Archery Championships
Men		Recurve		Compound
Women		Recurve		Compound
Team		Men's Recurve		Men's Compound
Team		Women's Recurve		Women's Compound
Mixed team		Recurve		Compound

The 2015 World Archery Championships was the 48th edition of the World Archery Championships. The event was held in Copenhagen, the capital city of Denmark from 26 July to 2 August 2015 and was organised by World Archery (formerly known as FITA).^[1] Qualification and elimination rounds took place at the Sundby Idrætspark, with the medal matches on 1–2 August outside the Danish Parliament building Christiansborg Palace. The competition was preceded by the World Archery Congress on 24–25 July.

The programme featured was the same as previous World Archery Championships, with individual, team and mixed team events in the compound and recurve disciplines. A record number of athletes has entered: 623 archers across the four disciplines.^[2] As well as participation, the Championships also broke public engagement and awareness records.^[3]

The competition was also the first opportunity for recurve athletes to secure qualification for their NOCs at the 2016 Summer Olympics. An Olympic Secondary Tournament was held to rank finishers for the purposes of Olympic qualification.^[4]

Schedule

All times are local (UTC+01:00).^[5]

Medal summary

Recurve^[6]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual	Kim Woo-jin  South Korea (KOR)	Rick van der Ven  Netherlands (NED)	Takaharu Furukawa  Japan (JPN)
Women's individual	Ki Bo-bae  South Korea (KOR)	Lin Shih-chia  Chinese Taipei (TPE)	Choi Mi-sun  South Korea (KOR)
Men's team	South Korea Kim Woo-jin Ku Bon-chan Oh Jin-hyek	Italy Michele Frangilli Mauro Nespoli David Pasqualucci	Chinese Taipei Kuo Cheng-wei Wang Hou-chieh Yu Guan-lin
Women's team	Russia Tuyana Dashidorzhieva Ksenia Perova Inna Stepanova	India Rimil Buriuly Deepika Kumari Laxmirani Majhi	South Korea Choi Mi-sun Kang Chae-young Ki Bo-bae
Mixed team	South Korea Ki Bo-bae Ku Bon-chan	Chinese Taipei Lin Shih-chia Kuo Cheng-wei	China Zhu Jueman Gu Xuesong

Compound^[7]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual	Stephan Hansen  Denmark (DEN)	Rajat Chauhan  India (IND)	Adam Ravenscroft  Great Britain (GBR)
Women's individual	Kim Yun-hee  South Korea (KOR)	Crystal Gauvin  United States (USA)	Sara López  Colombia (COL)
Men's team	Iran Esmaeil Ebadi Majid Gheidi Amir Kazempour	Canada Christopher Perkins Kevin Tataryn Dietmar Trillus	Denmark Martin Damsbo Stephan Hansen Patrick Laursen
Women's team	Ukraine Olena Borysenko Viktoriya Dyakova Mariya Shkolna	Netherlands Evelien Groeneveld Irina Markovic Inge Van Caspel	South Korea Choi Bo-min Kim Yun-hee Seol Da-yeong
Mixed team	South Korea Kim Yun-hee Kim Jong-ho	France Amelie Sancenot Dominique Genet	South Africa Sera Cornelius Patrick Roux

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	6	0	3	9
2	Denmark	1	0	1	2
3	Iran	1	0	0	1
	Russia	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
6	Chinese Taipei	0	2	1	3
7	India	0	2	0	2
	Netherlands	0	2	0	2
9	Canada	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
	United States	0	1	0	1
13	China	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	South Africa	0	0	1	1
Total		10	10	10	30

Participating nations

At the close of registrations, a record 96 nations had registered 623 athletes.^[8][9] Nations in bold sent the maximum number of participants, with a full team in each event. In the event, several nations and archers did not utilise registered places. The final number of participants was 590 from 90 countries.

See also

• Archery at the 2015 Pan American Games
• Archery at the 2015 European Games

References

External links

• Official website
• Championships details
• Championships results

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