World Cup Final 2012 in Tokyo

   This will be the 7th edition of the World Cup Final which showcases at its best the event concept of World Archery. Intense competitions in some of the world’s most spectacular places! For instance, the first Final was organised in the heart of the Mayapan Pyramids in Mexico in 2006. It was followed by Dubai in 2007, where World Archery built a 70-metre floating platform on the Madinat Jumeirah Lake with the famous 7-star hotel Burj Al Arab in the background. The 2008 World Cup Final was hosted in the Olympic Capital, Lausanne, and the 2009 edition "on" the famous Nyhavn Canal in wonderful Copenhagen. The Gardens of Edinburgh (GBR) and the Bosphorus shore of Istanbul (TUR) completed the hosts line-up of the World Cup Final in the last two years.

The programme of the Final consists of compact sessions over two days where the top archers of the season pit themselves in exciting head-to-head matches. In Tokyo, the compound division will play on Saturday 22 September and the recurve one on Sunday 23 September. The athletes shoot quarterfinals in the morning, followed by semifinals and finals in the afternoon. These are single elimination matches; there is no second chance, despite coming this far. At the end of the day, the winner is crowned best archer of the season!

The top 7 individuals (with a maximum of two per countries) in each category qualify to the Final based on the points they earned at the World Cup stages in 2012. These were organised in Shanghai, Antalya, Turkey, and the American town of Ogden near the Rocky Mountains. To complete the line-ups, the Japanese hosts will designate one wild card per caterogy. The Japanese mixed teams will also play against the top pairs of the world in mixed double finals. This year, both the American recurve and compound mixed doubles will play against Japan. If an athlete could not come, he would be replaced by the next one in the ranking.

Based on the Archery World Cup rankings, here are the individual quarterfinalists in Tokyo: 
  Recurve Men   Gael PREVOST (FRA)/No. 7 v Dmytro HRACHOV (UKR)/No. 2 Larry GODFREY (GBR)/No. 3 v KIM Woojin (KOR)/No. 6 Luis ALVAREZ (MEX)/No. 5 v Brady ELLISON (USA)/No. 4 IM Dong Hyun (KOR)/No. 1 v Takaharu FURUKAWA (JPN)/No. 8   Recurve Women   LIN Chia-En (TPE)/No. 7 v KI Bo Bae (KOR)/No. 2 CHOI Hyeonju (KOR)/No. 3 v Alejandra VALENCIA (MEX)/No. 6 Jennifer NICHOLS (USA)/No. 5 v Kristina TIMOFEEVA (RUS)/No. 4 Deepika KUMARI (IND)/No. 1 v Miki KANIE (JPN)/No. 8   Compound Men   Paul TITSCHER (GER)/No. 7 v Braden GELLENTHIEN (USA)/No. 2 Dominique GENET (FRA)/No. 3 v Julio Ricardo FIERRO (MEX)/No. 6 Peter ELZINGA (NED)/No. 5 v Pierre Julien DELOCHE (FRA)/No. 4 Reo WILDE (USA)/No. 1 v Naoto ANJI (JPN)/No. 8   Compound Women   Danielle BROWN (GBR)/No. 7 v Marcella TONIOLI (ITA)/No. 2 Christie COLIN (USA)/No. 3 v Laura LONGO (ITA)/No. 6 Jamie VAN NATTA (USA)/No. 5 v Kristina BERGER (GER)/No. 4 Albina LOGINOVA (RUS)/No. 1 v Yumiko HONDA (JPN)/No. 8   World Archery Communication