Archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics – Women's individual compound
| Women's individual compound open at the XIII Paralympic Games | |||||||||||||
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 Paralympic Archery | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Olympic Green Archery Field | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 8 from 5 nations | ||||||||||||
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| Archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics | ||
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| Individual | ||
| Compound | men | women |
| Recurve | men | women |
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| Recurve | men | women |
The Women's individual compound open was one of the events held in archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.
The competition began with a ranking round, to determine the pairings in the next stage. Britain's Danielle Brown ranked first, setting a world record with 676 points, and was consequently paired against China's , who ranked lowest with 551 points. Sweden's Zandra Reppe, second with 658 points was paired against Japan's , seventh with 627 points. Turkey's Gülbin Su (650) was paired against Sweden's (641), while Britain's Melanie Clarke (647) and (643) were paired against each other.
In the quarter-finals, the highest ranked archer defeated her opponent in three of the pairs. Brown defeated Wang 107:81; Clarke beat Britton 110:106; and Su beat Nilsson 112:102. But Kamiya narrowly defeated Reppe 107:106 to advance to the semi-finals.
In the semis, Clarke again found herself against a fellow Briton, Brown, who set a Paralympic record by defeating her 113:107. In the other semi-final, Kamiya again advanced by a very narrow margin, beating Su 106:104. Clarke then won the bronze medal match by beating Su 113:109.
In the final, Danielle Brown took the gold medal, defeating Chieko Kamiya with the convincing score of 112:98.[1] It was Brown's first participation in the Paralympic Games, at the age of 22; she later qualified to compete for England in the able-bodied archery competition at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.[2]
Ranking Round[]
| Rank | Archer | Score | 10's | X's | Notes |
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| 1 |  Danielle Brown (GBR) |
676 | 34 | 13 | WR |
| 2 |  Zandra Reppe (SWE) |
658 | 26 | 10 | |
| 3 |  Gülbin Su (TUR) |
650 | 19 | 11 | |
| 4 | Mel Clarke (GBR) |
647 | 21 | 8 | |
| 5 | (GBR) |
643 | 24 | 11 | |
| 6 | (SWE) |
641 | 23 | 5 | |
| 7 |  (JPN) |
627 | 17 | 5 | |
| 8 |  (CHN) |
551 | 6 | 3 |
Competition bracket[]
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| Danielle Brown (GBR) | 107 | |||||||||
| (CHN) | 81 | |||||||||
| Danielle Brown (GBR) | 113 | |||||||||
| Mel Clarke (GBR) | 107 | |||||||||
| (GBR) | 106 | |||||||||
| Mel Clarke (GBR) | 110 | |||||||||
| Danielle Brown (GBR) | 112 | |||||||||
| (JPN) | 98 | |||||||||
| Gülbin Su (TUR) | 112 | |||||||||
| (SWE) | 102 | |||||||||
| Gülbin Su (TUR) | 104 | |||||||||
| (JPN) | 106 | Third place | ||||||||
| (JPN) | 107 | |||||||||
| Zandra Reppe (SWE) | 106 | |||||||||
| Mel Clarke (GBR) | 113 | |||||||||
| Gülbin Su (TUR) | 109 | |||||||||
References[]
- ^ "Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games: Archery: Women's Individual Compound open", International Paralympic Committee. (Add a blank space and then "Compound&eclass=open", without quotation marks, to display the results.)
- ^ "Paralympian Danielle Brown makes squad for Commonwealth Games", The Guardian, June 24, 2010
- Archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
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