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| Archery at the 2012 Summer Paralympics | ||
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| Compound | men | women |
| Recurve | men | women |
| Team | ||
| Recurve | men | women |
The Women's team recurve was one of the events held in archery at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.
| Women's team recurve at the XIV Paralympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | The Royal Artillery Barracks | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 21 from 7 nations | ||||||||||||
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| Rank | Nation | Archers | Score |
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| 1 |  China (CHN) | Gao Fangxia Xiao Yanhong Yan Huilian | 1714 |
| 2 |  Iran (IRI) | Zahra Javanmard Zahra Nemati Razieh Shir Mohammadi | 1646 |
| 3 |  South Korea (KOR) | Kim Ran Sook Ko Hee Sook Lee Hwa Sook | 1639 |
| 4 |  Italy (ITA) | Veronica Floreno Elisabetta Mijno Mariangela Perna | 1585 |
| 5 |  Turkey (TUR) | Hatice Bayar Gizem Girismen Ozlem Hacer Kalay | 1568 |
| 6 |  Great Britain (GBR) | Kate Murray Sharon Vennard Leigh Walmsley | 1549 |
| 7 |  Czech Republic (CZE) | Miroslava Cerna Lenka Kuncova Marketa Sidkova | 1413 |
Source: [1]
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| 1 | China (CHN) | 192 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Italy (ITA) | 188 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Turkey (TUR) | 175 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Italy (ITA) | 183 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | China (CHN) | 193 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | South Korea (KOR) | 199 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | South Korea (KOR) | 188 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Great Britain (GBR) | 153 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | South Korea (KOR) | 192 | Third place | |||||||||||
| 2 | Iran (IRI) | 186 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 167 | 4 | Italy (ITA) | 184 | |||||||||
| 2 | Iran (IRI) | 189 | 2 | Iran (IRI) | 188 | |||||||||
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