The Archery competition of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games will be held at Olympic Green Archery Field from September 9 to 15. Here are some useful facts and figures:

* Only one discipline: Outdoor Target Archery

* Archery was first included in the Paralympic Games in Rome in 1960

* The grades (ARST, ARW1, ARW2) classify archers according to their disability

* 1.2 meters is the diameter of the target

* 10 is the number of concentric circles on the target

* 10 is the number of points an archer gets for hitting the center ring

* 14 competition sessions will be held

* Nine sets of medals will be awarded

* 28 National Paralympic Committees (NPC) are competing

* 4 NPCs have only 1 archer

* 13 archers come from the Republic of Korea, forming the largest team

* 134 archers will compete: 87 male and 47 female archers

* 19-year-old Hasegava Takahiro of Japan is the youngest male archer

* 16-year-old Katharina Schett of Germany is the youngest female archer

* 66-year-old Naganuma Tsunehiko of Japan is the oldest male archer

* 60-year-old Kate Murray of Great Britain is the oldest female archer

* 70 meters is the shooting distance

* 72 arrows will be shot by each archer in the ranking round

* Three archers will be on each team for the Team Recurve Open competition

* The Individual Compound Open category is being contested in the Paralympic Games for the first time.

(BOCOG September 8, 2008)