The 24-year-old will fly to Beijing in August after completing the third and final leg of the qualification process in first place to form the ladies' recurve team with Athens Olympic bronze medallist Alison Williamson and Charlotte Burgess.

It will be the Leamington star's second Olympics and this time there is a serious chance of a medal. Folkard, Williamson and Burgess took the bronze at the World Championships last year and are ranked second in the world.

Folkard, who finished 11th in Athens and was the silver medallist at the European Championships earlier this year, is now ranked world number nine.

She said: "We all get on so well together, we're really good friends, we train together and we have a really good rapport."

"I am delighted to be going to the Olympics for the second time."

The third and final leg of the gruelling selection process was held last week at the Lilleshall National Sports Centre. Folkard maintained her position at the top of the selection table.

Each of the three legs involved two FITA 70 rounds with round robin head-to-head matches. The number of archers competing was reduced after each leg. Scoring was complicated, with bonus points for match wins and scores exceeding target scores and minus points for failure to meet target scores.

The points gained in each leg were carried forward. Folkard's final points tally at the end of six days of competition was 6249.10. Alison Williamson (Long Mynd) finished on 6189.02 to secure a place in her fifth Olympics.

The third place went to Charlotte Burgess (Bruntwood) 5988.34. The reserve will be Emma Downie (Edinburgh University) 5749.00.

Folkard, a Birmingham University music graduate, is currently a full time archer. She has shot since she was seven years old with the Leamington club, but has been coached for many years by Barry and June Farndon at Dunlop in Coventry.

She is sponsored by solicitors Wright Hassall and estate agent Malcolm Hawkesford.