Archery at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

The archery competition at the 2010 Commonwealth Games was held at the Yamuna Sports Complex between 4 and 10 October. This was the second games appearance of the optional Commonwealth Games sport, almost thirty years after its debut at the 1982 Commonwealth Games. ^[1] Twenty-three nations entered archers into the tournament. ^[2]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	England	4	3	0	7
2	India	3	1	4	8
3	Australia	1	0	1	2
4	Canada	0	3	1	4
5	Malaysia	0	1	0	1
6	South Africa	0	0	2	2
Totals (6 entries)		8	8	8	24

Events

Archery at the Commonwealth Games is target archery, where competitors shoot arrows at outdoor targets at marked distances. Eight events are included: four each for women and men, with separate events for recurve and compound bows. ^[2] The events are:

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's recurve individual details	Rahul Banerjee   India	Jason Lyon   Canada	Jayanta Talukdar   India
Men's recurve team details	Matthew Gray Mat Masonwells and Taylor Worth   Australia	Muhammad Abdul Rahim Chu Cheng and Arif Ibrahim Putra   Malaysia	Rahul Banerjee Tarundeep Rai and Jayanta Talukdar   India
Men's compound individual details	Duncan Busby   England	Christopher White   England	Septimus Cilliers   South Africa
Men's compound team details	Duncan Busby Liam Grimwood and Christopher White   England	Ritul Chatterjee and Jignas Chittibomma Chinna Raju Srither   India	Nico Benade Septimus Cilliers and Kobus de Wet   South Africa

Women

XIX Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi Archery (Women's Individual Recurve) Deepika Kumari of India (Gold), Alison Jane Williamson of England (Silver) and Dola Banerjee of India (Bronze) during the medal presentation ceremony

XIX Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi Winners of (Women's) Archery Individual Compound, Hunt Nicky of England (Gold), DM Jones of Canada (Silver) and C. McCall of Australia (Bronze)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's recurve individual details	Deepika Kumari   India	Alison Williamson   England	Dola Banerjee   India
Women's recurve team details	Dola Banerjee Deepika Kumari and Bombayla Devi Laishram   India	Naomi Folkard Amy Oliver and Alison Williamson   England	Marie-Pier Beaudet Alana Macdougall and Kateri Vrakking   Canada
Women's compound individual details	Nicky Hunt   England	Doris Jones   Canada	Cassie McCall   Australia
Women's compound team details	Danielle Brown Nicky Hunt and Nichola Simpson   England	Camille Bouffard-Demers Doris Jones and Ashley Wallace   Canada	Bheigyabati Chanu Jhano Hansdah and Gagandeep Kaur   India

Venues

• Yamuna Sports Complex

Participating nations

•   Australia  (12)
•   Bangladesh  (6)
•   Canada  (12)
•   Cyprus  (8)
•   England  (12)
•   India  (12)
•   Isle of Man  (3)
•   Jersey  (2)
•   Kenya  (3)
•   Malaysia  (12)
•   Mauritius  (5)
•   Namibia  (3)
•   New Zealand  (6)
•   Norfolk Island  (5)
•   Northern Ireland  (6)
•   Samoa  (1)
•   Scotland  (10)
•   Singapore  (3)
•   South Africa  (4)
•   Sri Lanka  (4)
•   Tonga  (1)
•   Trinidad and Tobago  (3)
•   Uganda  (1)
•   Wales  (6)

See also

• 2010 Commonwealth Games

References

1. "Archery". Organising Committee Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi. Archived from the original on 15 June 2010. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
2. "Provisional List of Participants" (PDF). World Archery. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 23 September 2010.

External links

• Schedule