It is great to hear through the grapevine that there is a group of archers very keen to be nominated for this event. Even better that people are focusing a good distance out from the next Olympics and are eager for information and Policies.
So that everyone (archers, youth archers parents, coaches, supporters etc) understand a little of the process, I will do some explanation.
Right now, your main focus should be on shooting to the best of your abilities and increasing your abilities with your coaches. If you don’t have a coach you should aim to get one. Focus on competing internationally, particularly World Cups in 2018, 2019, 2020 and World Championships 2019.
Archery NZ does not “select” archers for events such as senior/youth Olympics, senior/youth Commonwealth Games (when archery is included). What actually happens is that we put together a nomination policy and criteria with the NZOC, and if archers meet that and we have secured a country spot at one of the qualifying tournaments, Archery NZ would put forward a nomination to the NZOC. They are the ones who do the selecting. Even if athletes from any sport meet the nomination criteria, it does not ensure that the NZOC will select them. Please bear this in mind when you are aiming for this tournament.
NZOC will at some point provide Archery NZ with their criteria for nomination. This may be mid-2019. Currently the NZOC are working on other events, most of which do not affect Archery NZ apart from the Youth Olympics 2018:
Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games 9 Feb 2018 – 25 Feb 2018
Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games 4 – 15 April 2018
Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games 6 Oct – 18 Oct 2018
Lausanne 2020 Youth Winter Olympic Games 10 Jan 2020 – 19 Jan 2020
Most of these events will need to be completed and post event reports done before they can then focus on criteria for Tokyo 2020, even though they are already working on this event and have been for some time, but that is all the planning and logistics, security and so forth.
NZOC mandate for nomination and then selection is showing the ability for a Top 16 finish, preferably Top 8. As well as score based, finishes in the top 20 for World Cups and World Championships in both 2018 and 2020 go a long way to supporting any nomination Archery NZ may submit. With this is an over-riding criteria of securing a country spot for any or all of 1 x Women’s Recurve, 1 x Men’s Recurve and for the first time a mixed team. Again, some of these spots can be won at selected events internationally and at the CQT (Continental Qualifying Tournament) in 2020 which is generally run in conjunction with Oceania Championships. Ideally any NZ archers that will be seeking selection to shoot in the CQT need to have shot at least the World Archery minimum score already (World Archery will announce this in 2019), even better if they have shot the MQS that NZOC agree to, which will be higher than the World Archery minimum.
If you look at Rio 2016, the World Archery MQS to compete was WR = 600 and MR = 610 and the Archery NZ / NZOC agreed MQS was WR = 655 & MR = 670
Looking at events in 2016 up to Rio:
Men’s Recurve
| EVENT | Qualification round 16th Position score | Qualification round 20th Position score |
| Asia World Cup | 651 | 644 |
| Arizona Cup | 634 | 633 |
| European Grand Prix 1 | 656 | 654 |
| World Cup 1 Shanghai | 670 | 669 |
| World Cup 2 Medellin | 666 | 665 |
| European Champs & CQT | 651 | 649 |
| World Cup 3 Antalya | 671 | 669 |
| Rio Olympics | 671 | 666 |
| Average | 656.7 | 654.1 |
| 2015 World Championships | 652 | 650 |
| 2017 World Championships | 659 | 658 |
Women’s Recurve
| EVENT | Qualification round 16th Position score | Qualification round 20th Position score |
| Asia World Cup | 629 | 626 |
| Arizona Cup | 612 | 608 |
| European Grand Prix 1 | 638 | 631 |
| World Cup 1 Shanghai | 653 | 651 |
| World Cup 2 Medellin | 647 | 636 |
| European Champs & CQT | 631 | 624 |
| World Cup 3 Antalya | 660 | 658 |
| Rio Olympics | 643 | 640 |
| Average | 636 | 629.7 |
| 2015 World Championships | 651 | 649 |
| 2017 World Championships | 652 | 648 |
Time frames
Obviously this far out from 2020 we cannot confirm either the scores that may be require nor can we confirm the timeframes, however those time frames will be similar to Rio 2016:
June 2015 Archery NZ released the Nomination Criteria (14 months prior to the event)
20th July 2015 Athlete Expression of Interest & NZOC Athlete Application to Archery NZ
5th August 2015 NZOC Athlete Application to NZOC
5th February 2016 All applicants to be on the DFSNZ register
23rd May 2016 Athlete International Event Registration Form & NZOC Athlete nomination to Archery NZ
1st June 2016 Athlete Nominations to NZOC
5th August 2016 Rio Olympics Open
If any archers, parents or coaches have any questions, please direct them to: [email protected]
In the words of Hamish Bond: “The Olympics is not for practice or the experience, it is the pinnacle and you need to learn how to win before you go to an Olympics.”
Karen Moffatt-McLeod
Convener of Selectors
