The countdown is on to the Tokyo Paralympics, taking place 24 August to 5 September. Here's when you can enjoy the archery matches on UK time.
Archery has been a stalwart of the Games since 1960 and ParalympicsGB have found plenty of success on the range. With 66 medals in total, including 20 golds, ParalympicsGB have 23 more medals than any other nation and top the overall medal table. British archers have performed superbly during the five years between Rio and Tokyo, winning multiple European and World Championship medals along the way.
All archery events will take place at Yumenoshima Park Archery Field, and there are nine gold medals for the taking. Here’s a look at our seven Paralympic athletes, and the times we can expect to see the action.
Jess Stretton
Jess Stretton’s gold at Rio 2016 turned a relatively unknown 16-year-old into one of Britain’s youngest and most treasured Paralympic heroes. ParalympicsGB were unaware of her potential until they sent her to the Netherlands for the 2015 Para World Ranking Tournament. Having only gone to gain experience, she ended up winning the whole competition before winning gold in Rio – becoming the youngest ever British archer to claim a medal in the event. Stretton was awarded an MBE for her Paralympic exploits in 2017.
Phoebe Paterson Pine
A junior indoor and outdoor national champion, Phoebe Paterson Pine’s archery class is clear for all to see. And after earning her qualifying spot in Nove Mesto with a gold medal, she will be eager to show just what she can do on the world stage. With eight national, four European, and three world records to her name at the age of 23, the Cirencester archer will be making her Paralympic Games debut at Tokyo 2020.
Victoria Rumary
A superb performance in the Czech Republic was enough for Victoria Rumary to achieve her dream and earn Paralympic selection. The 33-year-old took gold in the W1 open category in Nove Mesto in July, claiming a quota spot which she has now filled to help swell the British archery ranks to seven. Surgery for epilepsy resulted in the former non-disabled archer becoming a wheelchair user and a fundraising effort in her home town of Scunthorpe helped provide Rumary with her custom-made chair for shooting.
Hazel Chaisty
Hazel Chaisty is one of three ParalympicsGB archery debutants for Tokyo 2020. Her Paralympic journey began when she saw an advertisement for people with disabilities for Archery GB ahead of Rio 2016, which the Derbyshire-based shooter just missed out on. She secured a quota spot for the team by winning gold at the Fazza Para Archery World Ranking Tournament in 2019, finishing the year fifth in the women’s recurve world rankings. She backed up that success by clinching bronze back in the United Arab Emirates at the 2020 Fazza Para Archery World Ranking Tournament, having also won European bronze in 2018.
Dave Phillips
Dave Phillips will be itching for Paralympics glory on his second Games appearance, having only returned to archery in 2013 after a 30-year break from the sport. Phillips was selected for the British squad in 2014 and made his international debut at the Para World Ranking Tournament in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic, where he secured a gold medal as part of the men’s team and a mixed team bronze. On his Paralympic debut at Rio 2016, Phillips and his partner Tania Nadarajah were knocked out at the quarter-final stage of the recurve mixed team competition in a tense shoot-off by top seeds Iran. The Welshman claimed European bronze alongside Hazel Chaisty in 2018, while he secured a Paralympics quota place at the 2019 World Para-archery Championships.
John Stubbs
ParalympicsGB veteran John Stubbs is nothing short of a legend in his sport. The 56-year-old Warrington shooter is Britain’s most successful archer with a cabinet full of accolades, including a Paralympic gold medal from his Games debut at Beijing 2008. Also holder of multiple world titles, Stubbs added a Paralympic silver medal to his collection in the mixed team Open Compound eight years later in Rio alongside Jodie Grinham. We can expect to see him in fine form in Tokyo, having said he’s feeling fitter than ever before ahead of his fourth Paralympic Games as he sets his sights on the top of the podium again.
Nathan Macqueen
An all-round sportsman from an early age, Nathan Macqueen refused to let a near-fatal motorcycle accident stop him from achieving his sporting dreams. Prior to his accident, the archer was part of the Scottish archery team and had represented Glasgow Warriors and Scotland in rugby at Under 21 level. Despite being left paralysed by the accident, Macqueen looked for new challenges to conquer, taking up powerlifting and wheelchair basketball before returning to archery. He made his senior international debut just months before Rio 2016, where he finished ninth, while he has since won multiple medals on the world and European stage.
Channel Four will be the sole rights holder for the Paralympics in the UK. As well as coverage on Channel Four and More4, they also have a dedicated microsite Home | Channel 4 Parasport and the All4 app.
Friday 27 August
1am – 4am BST
6am – 9am BST
Saturday 28 August
1am – 6.55am BST
9.30am – 13.55pm BST
Please note, this event has no GB competitors
Sunday 29 August
1am – 6.10am BST
9.30am – 12.35pm BST
Monday 30 August
1am – 6.15am BST
9.30am – 13.20pm BST
Please note, this event has no GB competitors
Tuesday 31 August
1am – 6.15am BST
1am – 6.15am BST
Thursday 2 September
2am – 6.15am BST
9.30am – 11.30am BST
Friday 3 September
2am – 6:15am BST
9:30am – 13:55pm BST
Saturday 4 September
2am – 4:40am BST
9.30am – 12:35pm BST
We will publish match reports on our website, social media channels, Facebook and Instagram. ParalympicsGB will share British medal wins across their social media channels and website.
