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World Archery Oceania trains and evaluates its judges through its Judges Committee. This section includes a list of the accredited international and continental judges, as well as information on judging rules and manuals to support judge development.

World Archery Oceania accredits its continental judges through training, experience assessment and examination. The list of authorized judges by World Archery Oceania is updated every year. Classifiers are accredited by World Archery.

National Judges:

WAO National Judges are listed for those Member Associations that do not have their own officiating program. For National Judges with Member Associations that have their own officiating program please consult the Member Association.

Current Judge List

 

Judge Name	Status	Member Association
Susanne Womersley	IJ	Australia
Alison Hagaman	IJ	Australia
Nasrin Ghashghaei	IJ	Iran
Karen O’Malley	CJ	Australia
Brian Hagaman	CJ	Australia
Peter Coghlan	CJ	Australia
Eric Halil	CJ	Australia
Mark Newnham	CJ	Australia
Raoul Patel	CJ	Australia
Paul Smith	CJ	Australia
Logan Andrew	CJ	New Zealand
Hanlie Bam	CJ	New Zealand
Adam Kaluzny	CJ	New Zealand
Dider Gras	CJ	Tahiti
Patricia Barton	NJ	Cook Islands
Mario Caffery	NJ	Cook Islands
Ajay Ballu	NJ	Fiji
Caroll Sela	NJ	Fiji
George Fong	NJ	Fiji
Joseph Walter	NJ	Samoa
Arthur Demarchy	NJ	Tahiti
Thiry Teng	NJ	Tahiti
Mahina Jensen	NJ	Tonga

CLASSIFICATION

Classification describes the procedure of assessing the impairment of an athlete. The system provides structure and a level playing field for para archery competition. Classification defines whether an athlete can use an assistive device, decides whether they are eligible to compete in para archery and groups eligible athletes by the severity of their impairment.

All documents and forms about classification can be found on World Archery’s website.

An athlete may be classified to use an assistive device but not to compete in para archery competition. The classification classes, the eligibility of impairments and the process for assessing athletes are defined according to the International Paralympic Committee’s classification standards that span all para sport.

Classification is carried out at the international level and the national level. Archers require an international classification to compete at any international para archery event. Athletes getting started in para archery can receive a National Classification. This will only apply within the country that issued it. Collaboration between national archery federations may be devised to allow nationally classified archers to compete in neighbouring or other continental association events that are not identified as World Archery international events. National classification follows the same rules and categories as International classification.

Archers interested in getting classified and competing in para archery competitions should contact their national archery federation.

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