Day one of the second round of Olympic archery qualifying saw some separation emerge at the top of the men’s and women’s competitions. On the men’s side Brady Ellison had by far the best day scoring 13 points and drawing within a half point of leader Zachary Garrett. On the other side Sean McLaughlin struggled to just 3.5 points and fell to third. The gap between Ellison and McLaughlin is 7.5 points. Jacob Wukie is a quarter point back in fourth and another quarter point back is Jake Kaminski.

On the women’s side Mackenzie Brown expanded her lead to five points as Lanola Pritchard moved into second with Ariel Gibilaro a half point back in third. Khatuna Lorig is still in fourth but now 3.25 points behind third and 8.75 points behind the only guaranteed Olympic spot.

Tuesday will feature eight head-to-head matches with another seven on Wednesday before the field is cut to eight. The winner of each head-to-head match gets a point and the average scores are used to rank the players as well for more points.

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