With the opening World Cup in Medellin, Colombia having finished little more than a week ago and with events coming thick and fast all the way to the World Championships in June, numerous countries are making tactical deployments at this season’s competitions.

South Korea is choosing to contest the first and second World Cups in the series but will miss the third one in Antalya, while Colombia – absent in Shanghai – will return for the competition in Turkey.

Sara López of Colombia, Mike Schloesser of the Netherlands, Brady Ellison of the United States and Kang Chae-young of South Korea are already qualified for the Hyundai Archery World Cup Final having won in Medellin.

Up to four more archers could join them after Shanghai.

But if either Ellison or Kang take a second gold medal in Shanghai, the automatic places for the final they would have received had they not already achieved that will not go to the second-place finisher.

Those places will be opened up for points qualifiers at the end of the year.

Meanwhile Iran’s Zahra Nemati, the two-time Paralympic champion who also shot in the Rio 2016 Olympics, is competing in Shanghai – an indication she may be intending to double up again at Tokyo 2020.