Brazil’s 40th National Archery Championships got underway in the heart of downtown Rio de Janeiro this week at the world famous Sambodromo.
Sixteen year-old Marcus DALMEIDA – this season’s Archery World Cup Final silver medallist, Youth Olympic silver medallist and Brazil’s flag bearer at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympics – guided the President of the Organising Committee for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games Carlos NUZMAN and Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo PAES through shooting the first arrows of the tournament on Wednesday.
The event is a first-hand preview of the intense archery competition that athletes and fans can expect during the Rio 2016 Games – and the first time archery takes place inside the sport’s next Olympic venue.
Competing alongside Marcus DALMEDIA and over 200 of Brazil’s finest archers are four Amazonian archers who have left their homes in the Amazon to live in the Olympic Village in Manaus.
The young athletes, aged between 14 and 19, were selected as part of a development programme that aims to turn young people with a particular skill in the Amazonian bow-and-arrow tradition into potential world-beaters in the Olympic sport of archery.
World Archery President and International Olympic Committee Executive Board member Prof Dr Ugur ERDENER said:
"These are very exciting times for archery. It will be an honour to stage our events in the iconic Sambodromo during the Rio 2016 Olympics. Already, two years out, our national federation in Brazil is able to use the Games venue to push archery into the heart of the downtown community in Rio de Janeiro."
The stage of the traditional and world famous Carnival parades performed by Brazilian samba schools each year, and concerts by national and international artists, the Sambodromo was the first sports facility to be delivered for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It underwent a renovation in 2012 that expanded its capacity from 60,000 to 72,500 spectators.
During the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Sambodromo will host all archery and para archery events, including preliminary qualifying rounds, head-to-head eliminations and finals.
The eliminations and finals venue will seat approximately 7,000 ticketed spectators each session of the archery events of the Olympic Games and over 4,000 spectators during the Paralympic Games.
Archers will return to the Sambodromo on 15-22 September 2015 for the AcqueceRio Test Event.
World Archery is based in Maison du Sport International in Lausanne, Switzerland. Visit World Archery’s website (www.worldarchery.org), and follow the federation on Facebook (www.facebook.com/WorldArcheryPage) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/worldarchery).
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