Sports Complex in March 2010 to evaluate the venue's preparedness ahead of the Games. Indian archers dominated the women's recurve individual competition, Kumari taking the gold medal in a five-set final ahead of teammates Chekrovolu Swuro and Pranitha Vardhineni, who finished with the silver and bronze medals respectively. Two days after the opening ceremony in Delhi it was announced that all archery events were to be removed from the schedule of the succeeding 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow due to time constraints. As of the 2022 Commonwealth Games, this remains the last time archery was contested at a Commonwealth Games. Format The event was an outdoor target archery competition held under International Archery Federation (Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc, FITA) rules, with each archer shooting at a 122 cm-wide target from a 70-metre distance. Between one and ten points were awarded for each arrow depending on how close it landed to the centre of the target. The competition consisted of six stages. A 72-arrow ranking round took place on 4 October with the total cumulative score of each archer, out of a maximum of 720, used to determine the seedings for the five elimination rounds. The twelve athletes with the lowest total score from their 72 arrows advanced to the 1/16 elimination round, while the 10 highest scoring athletes received a bye to the 1/8 elimination round. If two or more athletes posted the same total score, the number of arrows landing in the 10 ring was taken into account. If the number of 10s was tied, then the number of arrows landing within the inner-10 ring (noted as Xs) was used as a tiebreaker. A single elimination tournament consisting of five rounds followed, each round using the set system introduced by FITA earlier in 2010. A set consists of a total of six arrows, each archer shooting three arrows. The highest scoring archer from their three arrows earned two set points with the losing archer receiving zero points. In the event of a tied score both archers received one point. The 1/16 and 1/8 elimination rounds consisted of a maximum of three sets, with the first archer scoring four set points declared the winner, while the quarter-final, semifinal, and two medal-deciding matches consisted of up to five sets, the first archer to six set points winning the match. If the set points were tied after the maximum number