Between Sunday 5th and Monday 6th May Essen will host the European Individual Archery Pre-Olympic Championships 2024, while the European Championships will be staged later in the same venue from Wednesday 8th to Sunday 12th May. Both events are very important from an Olympic qualification perspective, with several continental passes to the Paris Olympics up for grabs.
In the first of the two appointments they will be 3 individual quotas available (maximum one per country) for both men and womenwith the minimum requirement, however, of reaching at least the quarter-finals of the tournament to at least guarantee the possibility of a possible repechage. Italy, already certain of an individual place for women thanks to Chiara Rebagliati’s bronze at the European Games, will therefore participate in the Pre-Olympic only with men (still dry).
The objective for Mauro Nespoli, Federico Musolesi and Alessandro Paoli is to get to the end (it is enough that the best of the Azzurri is preceded in the final ranking by representatives of at most two different countries, while remaining in the top 8) in Essen in the European tournament five-round qualifying round to guarantee the tricolor movement at least an individual pass also in the men’s sector and then chase the Olympic card with the trio.
Our standard bearers will have to deal mainly with the British, the Israeli Roy Dror, the Dutch, the Slovenians, a couple of Luxembourgers, the Finn Antti Tekoniemi, the Croatian Alen Remar, the Belgian Jarno De Smedt and two Swiss in the absence of France, Turkey, Spain, Germany and Moldova (nations already with at least one pass among the men).
Regardless of the outcome of the individual continental Pre-Olympic, in Essen the most important competitions will undoubtedly be the single-sex recurve team events valid for the European Championships. In fact, a male trio (the best in the continental event excluding France and Turkey) and a female trio (the first classified excluding France and Germany) will be promoted directly to the Games.
2024-04-30 11:00:29
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