Sixty-four archers from around the world will meet at Stade Abdoulaye Wade in Dakar for the archery competition at the Youth Olympic Games, an event that returns after an eight-year wait with 25 sports and roughly 2,700 athletes.
All three archery events at the Games will be shot with the recurve bow: men’s individual, women’s individual and mixed team.
Italy fields Mazzuoli and Manini in all three events
Italy will contest all three competitions with two archers: Niccolò Mazzuoli of Maremmana Arcieri and Matilde Manini of Arcieri Voghera. Both will be accompanied by Matteo Bisiani, technical director of the junior national recurve team.
From the ranking round to the mixed team final in November
Archers are already testing the competition venue and will do so again on Thursday, Nov. 5, ahead of the official start. The 72-arrow ranking round is set for Friday, Nov. 6, and the first elimination round of both individual events follows on Saturday, Nov. 7. The men’s individual final is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 8, with the women’s individual final the following day, Monday, Nov. 9. Tuesday, Nov. 10 closes the program with the mixed team final, after the round of 16, quarterfinals and semifinals.
Olympic Broadcast Services streams eliminations and finals
Olympic Broadcast Services, the official broadcaster of the Youth Olympic Games, will provide the live stream of every elimination match and all of the finals, with coverage running from Saturday, Nov. 7 through Tuesday, Nov. 10. Results will also be updated in real time on Ianseo.net.
Questions readers ask about archery in Dakar
Where is the archery competition being held? All 64 archers compete at Stade Abdoulaye Wade in Dakar, Senegal.
When do the individual finals take place? The men’s individual final is on Sunday, Nov. 8, and the women’s individual final on Monday, Nov. 9, both following the completion of the elimination rounds.
Where can the results be followed live? Ianseo.net carries real-time results, while Olympic Broadcast Services streams the elimination matches and finals from Nov. 7 to Nov. 10.
The program concludes on Tuesday, Nov. 10, when the mixed team final crowns the last archery champions of the Games in Dakar.
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