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FINAL OLYMPIC QUALIFIER CONCLUDES IN PARIS

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The final Olympic places for Tokyo 2020 were awarded over a three-day qualificat­ion session in Paris, prior to the third World Cup event of the season. Fifty nations have qualified, pending full acceptance of places by national Olympic committees.

Mexico, the USA and Italy won the last three women’s team Olympic quotas, the first two via shootoffs. France, Indonesia, and the USA took the men's team spots.

In the last scramble for individual spots on Monday, Finland, Hungary, Israel, Moldova,

Poland, Russia and Ukraine men all won spots, with Israel making an Olympic archery debut. Women's spots were won by Greece, Poland, the Czech Republic, Mongolia, and Romania.

Archers from Bangladesh, Chad, Malawi and the US Virgin Islands were awarded the four universali­ty places for smaller and developing nations in the sport.

As Bow went to press, the Paris World Cup competitio­n was ongoing.

The full qualificat­ion table can be found at worldacher­y.sport

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Italian women's team: off to tokyo PIC: World Archery

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