The women's individual recurve competition at the 2015 European Games was held from 16 to 19 June 2015 at the Tofiq Bahramov Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan. One of five events comprising the inaugural European Games' archery programme, it featured a total of 62 archers from 30 different nations.
Karina Winter of Germany won the gold medal, defeating the reigning world champion Maja Jager of Denmark in the final. Spain's Alicia Marín won the bronze medal ahead of Greece's Evangelia Psarra.
Background Qualification
Qualification for the European Games took place at the European Archery Championships in Echmiadzin, Armenia in July 2014 and at a final qualifying tournament held during the European Grand Prix in Marathon, Greece in March 2015. As the host nation, Azerbaijan automatically qualified a maximum three female archers for the Games. The quota place won by Kosovo marked their first appearance as an independent entity in the women's individual event, having been accepted as a full member of the International Olympic Committee at the end of 2014.
Format Schedule DateTimeStage 4 Tuesday, 16 June 2015 14:00-16:00 Ranking round 7 Friday, 19 June 2015 09:00-12:30 14:00-17:30 1/32 elimination round9 Sunday, 21 June 2015 09:00-12:30 1/16 elimination round14:00-18:15 1/8 elimination roundQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsBronze medal matchGold medal match Source:
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The Azerbaijani team was forced to make a late change after injury forced Sugrakhanim Mugabilzada to pull out of the Games. 41-year-old Leila Fazilova was initially announced as her replacement, but Reuters reported on 13 June she had voluntarily decided to withdraw amid claims of nepotism, her husband holding the position of assistant team coach of the Azerbaijani squad. Yaylagul Ramazanova was subsequently called up as the team's third member just three days before the beginning of the competition.
On 18 June, the day before the beginning of the elimination rounds, the Dutch Olympic Committee announced that Shireen-Zoë de Vries was to return to the Netherlands due to from illness and would take no further part in the competition. The following day Kosovan archer Lirije Sahiti also withdrew from the opening elimination round after falling ill. Their respective opponents Miriam Alarcon and Natalia Valeeva were thereby given a bye to the second round.
Sartori and Tonetta, who had already won gold medals in the women's team event, each progressed to the 1/8 elimination round to face German opposition, with Sartori meeting Richter and Tonetta facing top seed Unruh. Valeeva, the third member of the victorious Italian women's team and the winner of the gold medal in the mixed team event, did not progress beyond the 1/16 elimination round, losing to Yuliya Lobzhenidze of Georgia in four sets.
Results Ranking round Key Advanced to 1/16 elimination round Advanced to 1/32 elimination round
RankArcherHalfScore1st2nd1 33233066226102 32932865727103 3273266532534 3223316532265 3243266502236 3173316482587 3203276472278 3233246472049 32232464623610 32132364421711 31832664421312 320322642221013 31932364221614 32431664018415 321319640171016 32031763719517 32131663718518 31432263623919 31332363621320 30732963619521 31831863617422 31232363517523 32031563516424 31631863415425 31831563314426 31531563020527 31231863019528 31731363016229 31931062920730 30732262920731 31431562919432 31531362825733 31231662819434 30931862716635 31631162716536 31331362615337 31730662317438 32030362314139 31131262312240 31430762117441 30731462115542 30531461915243 30331561818544 31230661815545 30830961714646 31330461712047 31430161517648 31030561517449 30930661512350 30530661111351 30430460812452 294310604171053 29331160415254 30230260411355 30329860114456 30229860017557 30429259616358 30229259411659 3042895939160 30028658614361 29528758210262 22422244610Source:
Elimination rounds Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Note: An asterisk (*) denotes a win from a one-arrow shoot-off Source:
Finals
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See also Archery at the 2014 Asian Games – Women's individual recurve Archery at the 2015 Pan American Games – Women's individual Archery at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's individual
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