
The London Summer Games will take place from July 27th through August 12th.
Date |
Event Description |
Event Code | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 28th |
|
AR003 |
|
| July 28th |
|
AR004 |
|
| July 29th |
|
AR005 |
|
| July 29th |
|
AR006 |
|
| July 30th |
|
AR007 |
|
| July 30th |
|
AR008 |
|
| July 31st |
|
AR009 |
|
| July 31st |
|
AR010 |
|
| Aug 1st |
|
AR011 |
|
| Aug 1st |
|
AR012 |
|
| Aug 2nd |
|
AR013 |
|
| Aug 2nd |
|
AR014 |
|
| Aug 3rd |
|
AR015 |
|
| Aug 3rd |
|
AR016 |
Held at Lord’s Cricket Ground, the Archery competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games will call for pinpoint precision and nerves of steel. Archery dates back around 10,000 years, when bows and arrows were first used for hunting and warfare, before it developed as a competitive activity in medieval England. A tense and testing sport that requires immense reserves of skill and nerve, Archery is now practised in more than 140 countries around the world. The object of the sport is simple: to shoot arrows as close to the centre of a target as possible. Olympic Archery targets are 122 centimetres in diameter, with the gold ring at the centre (worth a maximum 10 points) measuring just 12.2cm. At the Olympic Games, matches will be played over the best of five sets, with each set consisting of three arrows per archer.
Venue: Lord's Cricket Ground
Dates: Friday 27 July – Friday 3 August
Medal events: 4
Athletes: 128 (64 men, 64 women)