With just one day of shooting in the second portion of the Olympic Archery Trials remaining and the cut down to eight having occurred there is some real separation developing for the Olympic spots. On the men’s side Brady Ellison keeps improving as he now leads Zachary Garrett by 5.5 points. Both are currently solidly in the Olympic spots. Sean McLaughlin continued to fall down the standings as his low scoring day (he went just 2-5 in matches and had a poor average score) dropped him from third to sixth. Into third after a strong day is Jake Kaminski who is seven points behind Garrett but leads fourth place Jacob Wukie by 4.75 points.

On the women’s side Mackenzie Brown now has a 9.5 point lead as she has the best day in the field and Ariel Gibilaro passed Lanola Pritchard for second place. Ultimately second/third won’t matter, both spots will either go to the Olympics or not but fourth place has no chance to reach the Olympics and that is where Hye Youn Park sits only two points behind Pritchard. Khatuna Lorig had another rough day and now is seventh and 8.75 points behind third place.

Thursday will feature a team simulation event that will provide a qualifying round score (top score is worth eight points), seven more head-to-head matches worth two points each, and the average scores from those matches will be used to award more points.

Previous Olympic Archery Trials Coverage:
Preview
Day 1 Update
Day 2 Update