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ArcheryAt2020SummerParalympics

Archery at the 2020 Summer Paralympics will be held between August and September 2017 at the Dream Island Archery Field in the Maracana zone of Rio de Janeiro, and consisted of nine events. The make up of those events is unchanged from the 2016 Games, and consisted of three men's events, three women's events and three events for mixed gender teams. Men, women and mixed teams each competed in two events for compound bow, one for wheelchair athletes, the other open, and an open event for recurve bow, the bow used for all Olympic events.

Classification and events
Paralympic archers are given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allowed archers to compete against others with a similar level of function. The categories have been reduced by one for 2016, with the two wheelchair classifications combined, and the replacement of 'standing' with an 'open' category. The W1 classification for wheelchair archers has been retained.

There are two categories of competition in Paralympic archery in 2020:


 * Open - Athletes have an impairment in the legs and use a wheelchair or have a balance impairment and shoot standing or resting on a stool. Open category athletes may shoot in six events, in both recurve or compound competitions, under standard rules;
 * W1 - Athletes may have impairment in the legs and make use of a wheelchair. W1 athletes may shoot either a recurve or a compound bow modified from standard rules, across three events. There are no separate competitions for the two disciplines, and in practice the W1 contests will be predominantly compound bow, as these take less power to wield than the recurve.

A third recognised Paralympic archery classification, V1, for visually impaired archers, is not part of the 2016 Games.

Individual events
A National Paralympic Committee (NPC) could be allocated a maximum of thirteen qualification slots across the nine events, except for the NPCs of the 2015 Para Archery World Champions. It could also qualify a maximum of three archers per individual event, and could field a team of one man and one woman in the mixed gender team events, selected from individual qualifiers.

The majority of quota places will be awarded for performances in the 2019 World Championships, and the continental qualification events. A smaller number are then awarded, if applicable, to the host nation, to the highest ranked archers at a Final Paralympic Qualifying tournament, and under the discretion of the bipartite committee.

Mixed team events
There is no direct qualification for the mixed pairs events, and an NPC may enter one team (1 man, 1 woman) per event if they have qualified those archers from individual events. However, since Rio 2016 quota places in individual events were awarded to the top finishers in the equivalent mixed pairs event at the 2019 World Para Archery Championships, a minimum number of teams per event is guaranteed.