There will be more than 40 archers present, and it will be the last chance for some of them to qualify for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

Among those competing at the event, which runs until March 17, are archers from Canada, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Russia and Thailand.

They will compete in men's and women's recurve W1/W2, recurve standing, compound open and three team events – men's recurve open, mixed recurve and mixed compound.

Paralympic archery will take place at the Royal Artillery Barracks in London this summer from August 30 to September 5.

There will be nine gold medals on offer at London 2012, with the home favourite Danielle Brown (pictured), who took gold at Beijing 2008 and the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games, as well as Russia's Stepanida Artakhinova and Mikhail Diktovannyy likely to be among the leading contenders.

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