Rio archery door still open for Lingard

Semra Lingard will participate in a mini shoot-off at the world archery championships on Friday in a bid to book a spot at next year's Rio Olympics.

Australia's Semra Lingard will get another chance to book a place for Rio via a mini Olympic qualification shoot-off at the archery world championships in Copenhagen.

Lingard is one of six archers from countries who did not qualify teams for next year's Games that will do battle for three Olympic qualification positions on Friday.

The 25-year-old Queenslander, who made the final 32 of the individual competition before falling to Germany's Lisa Unruh, is likely to come up against an archer from Azerbaijan in the first round.

A win would move her into the semi-finals.

Australia has already qualified three men for Rio after Taylor Worth, Ryan Tyack and Alec Potts finished top eight in the team's competition.

However the women's team were unsuccessful, opening the door for Lingard to qualify for an individual berth.

Meanwhile, Worth narrowly missed out on a top-eight individual place overnight.

The London 2012 Olympian finished level with No.1 qualifier, Italy's Mauro Nespoli, in their round of 16 match, but then lost on a tie-break arrow.


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