Bronze Medal and Olympic places for Women's Archery Team

Charlotte Burgess, Naomi Folkard and Alison Williamson won the Bronze Medal in the team event at the Archery World Championships. Having lost to South Korea 213-216 in the semi-final, Great Britain clinched victory over Italy by 213-210.

On Friday, with Olympic qualififiaction places at stake, the British Women's team had to come back from behind in the 1/8th match against North Korea. Having qualified in fourth place, the team found themselves 96-101 and then 146-150 behind. They managed to tie the match at 197 after the 24 regular arrows, and then again after the first shoot-off. With the third arrow of the second shoot-off Burgess scored a 10 against a 9 for the opponent, to secure three Olympic places also for the British girls.

The eight teams that will compete in the Beijing Olympics are : South Korea, France, India, Great Britain, Poland, Italy, Chinese Taipei and China. These teams and Colombia (ranked 9th) also qualify three competitors into the individual competition.

The semi-finals and medal rounds of the Women's Archery competition take place on 10th August 2008.