2015 World Archery Championships

2015 World Archery Championships
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark
Start date	26 July
End date	2 August
Competitors	623 from 96 nations

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 event. It was held in Copenhagen, Denmark from 26 July to 2 August 2015 and was organised by World Archery Federation (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 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]

Medals summary[]

Recurve[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual details	Kim Woo-jin  South Korea	Rick van der Ven  Netherlands	Takaharu Furukawa  Japan
Women's individual details	Ki Bo-bae  South Korea	Lin Shih-chia  Chinese Taipei	Choi Mi-sun  South Korea
Men's team details	South Korea Kim Woo-jin Ku Bon-chan Oh Jin-hyek	Italy Michele Frangilli Mauro Nespoli David Pasqualucci	Chinese Taipei Kuo Cheng-wei Yu Guan-lin
Women's team details	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 details	South Korea Ki Bo-bae Ku Bon-chan	Chinese Taipei Lin Shih-chia Kuo Cheng-wei	China Gu Xuesong

^[6]

Compound[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual details	Denmark	Rajat Chauhan  India	Great Britain
Women's individual details	Kim Yun-hee  South Korea	Crystal Gauvin  United States	Sara López  Colombia
Men's team details	Iran Esmaeil Ebadi	Canada Christopher Perkins Dietmar Trillus	Denmark Martin Damsbo
Women's team details	Ukraine Olena Borysenko Viktoriya Dyakova Mariya Shkolna	Netherlands Irina Markovic	South Korea Choi Bo-min Kim Yun-hee
Mixed team details	South Korea Kim Yun-hee	France	South Africa Patrick Roux

^[7]

Medals 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
Totals (17 nations)		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 use registered places. The final number of participants was 590 from 90 countries.

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Championships details
• Championships results