Archery at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics – Girls' individual
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The girls' individual archery event at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics was held from 18 to 20 August 2010 at the Kallang Field in Kallang, Singapore. It was one of three recurve archery events which comprised the archery programme at the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics, and featured thirty-one archers from thirty-one countries. Entry was open to female archers born between 1 January 1992 and 31 December 1993.[1]
Girls' individual at the I Summer Youth Olympic Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Kallang Field | ||||||||||||
Date | 18–20 August 2010 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 31 from 31 nations | ||||||||||||
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Qualification was conducted through a tournament held in parallel at the 2009 Archery World Youth Championships, as well as through five continental tournaments held in 2009 and 2010.[1] The event was among the first to follow the new competition format adopted by the Federation Internationale Tir de l'Arc (FITA) for international tournaments earlier in 2010.
Kwak Ye-ji of South Korea, who was tipped as the favourite for gold medal, emerged as champion after winning in the final against Tan Ya-ting of Chinese Taipei, who received the silver medal as runner-up. Russia's Tatiana Segina finished in third place, winning the bronze medal ahead of Mexico's Mariana Avitia.