Rio Olympic bronze medallist Taylor Worth has been selected for his third Olympic Games with the WAIS graduate part of the Australian Olympic Team in Archery.
29-year-old Worth made his Olympic debut in 2012 before winning bronze in the men’s team event with Alec Potts and Ryan Tyack in Rio four years later.
Worth a former WAIS scholarship holder graduated in 2017 to the Archery Australia National Training Centre in Queensland.
“I love Archery because it’s the constant pursuit of perfection,” Worth said. “We are chasing that dead centre of the target, again and again and again.
“Going into my third Olympics, I still need to treat it like any other competition. It might be the biggest stage but at the end of the day, we’re just shooting arrows, and hopefully reflecting everything we’ve done to get us to this moment.”
The archery competition runs from 24 July to 1 August at Tokyo’s Yumenoshima Park, with teams and individual events for men and women and a mixed teams event making its Olympic debut.
Joining Worth on the team is Ryan Tyack and David Barnes.
Australia’s female archers have not yet earned a Tokyo 2020 quota but can earn an individual quota at the Oceania Championships in Fiji in April. If an Australian athlete earns an individual quota, that would also make Australia eligible to compete in the mixed Teams event, with the top 16 nations from the combined score of one male and one female archer in Tokyo’s ranking round proceeding to the mixed Teams event.
