Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics



         


Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at Panathinaiko Stadium (Kallimarmaro). The archery schedule began on 12 August and ended on 21 August.

There were four gold medals contested, with individual and team events for men and the same for women.

All archery at the Olympics was done from a range of 70 meters. The target's total diameter was 122 cm. An archer had 40 seconds to fire each arrow. 64 archers took part in the Olympics, with each National Olympic Committee being able to enter a maximum of three archers. Each archer fired six ends, or groups, of 12 arrows per end in the ranking round. The score from that round determined the match-ups in the elimination rounds, with high-ranking archers facing low-ranking archers. There were three rounds of elimination that used six ends of three arrows, narrowing the field of archers to 32, then to 16, then to 8. The three final rounds (quarterfinals, semifinals, and medal matches) each used four ends of three arrows.

13 men's and 15 women's teams took place in the team competition. The teams consisted of the country's three archers from the individual round, and the team's initial ranking was determined by summing the three members' scores in the individual ranking round. Each round of eliminations consisted of each team firing 27 arrows (9 by each archer).


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Qualification

There were four ways for National Olympic Committees (NOCs) to qualify individual archers for the Olympics in archery. No NOC was allowed to enter more than three archers. For each gender, the host nation (Greece) was guaranteed three spots. The 2003 World Target Competition's top 8 teams (besides the host nation) each received three spots, and the 19 highest ranked archers after the team qualifiers were removed also received spots. 15 of the remaining 18 spots were divided equally among the five Olympic continents for allocation in continental tournaments. The last three spots in each gender were determined by the Marco Galiazzo, Italy | Hiroshi Yamamoto, Japan | Tim Cuddihy, Australia |- |Women's individual: | Park Sung Hyun, Korea | Lee Sung Jin, Korea | Alison Williamson, Great Britain |- |Men's team:

| Korea
Im Dong-hyun
Jang Yong-ho
Park Kyung-mo | Chinese Taipei
Chen Szu Yuan
Liu Ming-huang
Wang Cheng-pang | Ukraine
Dmytro Hrachov
Viktor Ruban
Oleksandr Serdyuk

|- |Women's team:

| Korea
Lee Sung Jin
Park Sung Hyun
Yun Mi Jin | China
He Ying
Lin Sang
Zhang Juanjuan | Chinese Taipei
Chen Li Ju
Wu Hui Ju
Yuan Shu Chi

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Archery top-8 table by country


Gold: Silver: Bronze: 4th: 5th: 6th: 7th: 8th:
Position Country: Total:
1 Korea 3 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 7
2 Italy 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
3 Chinese Taipei 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 5
4= China, People's Republic of 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
4= Japan 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
6 Great Britain 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2
7= Australia 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2
7= Ukraine 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2
9 United States of America 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2
10 France 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
11 Greece 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2
12 Netherlands 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
13 Germany 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
14 India 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1


Korea continued its domination of the sport, winning three of the four gold medals as well as a silver. Marco Galiazzo won the men's individual competition, earning Italy the nation's first gold medal in Olympic archery, blocking Hiroshi Yamamoto's attempt to win Japan's first gold medal. Chinese Taipei, which had never before won a medal in archery, won a silver and a bronze.

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Men's individual

Gold: Silver: Bronze:
Marco Galiazzo Hiroshi Yamamoto Tim Cuddihy


The three medalists of the 2000 Summer Olympics, Simon Fairweather, Vic Wunderle, and Wietse van Alten, all competed in 2004. None placed higher than 14th (van Alten) in the ranking round and only Wunderle made it to the quarterfinals.

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Men's individual ranking round

August 12 17:00 at Dekelia Air Force Base

The Korean archers, medal favorites in both men's and women's competition, ranked 1st (Im Dong-hyun), 4th (Park Kyung-mo), and 5th (Jang Yong-ho) in the men's individual ranking round. Im's score of 687 set a new world record for 72 arrows, breaking the previous one set in 1995 by fellow Korean Shim Young-sung. The bracket setup (with 4th- and 5th-ranked archers facing off in the quarterfinals if undefeated and the winner of that match facing the 1st-ranked archer in the semifinals) meant that the Korean men could do no better than gold and bronze. Marco Galiazzo of Italy in 2nd and Magnus Petersson of Sweden in 3rd rounded out the top five, with Dmytro Hrachov in 6th with the same score as 5th-ranked Jang of Korea.


Final
Rank 		Ranking
Round
Rank 		Name Nation Ranking
Round
Score 		1/32 1/16 1/8 Quarter-
Finals 		Semi-
Finals 		Finals
1 3 Marco Galiazzo Italy 672 156 164 162 109 110 111
2 9 Hiroshi Yamamoto Japan 664 155 162 168 111 115
(=OR) 		109
3 12 Tim Cuddihy Australia 663 148 164 166 112 115
(=OR) 		113
4 31 Laurence Godfrey Great Britain 650 157 163 167 110 108 112
5 4 Park Kyung-mo Korea 672 154 164 173
(OR) 		111    
6 1 Im Dong-hyun Korea 687
(WR) 		152 171 167 110    
7 10 Chen Szu Yuan Chinese Taipei 663 136 170 169 108    
8 43 Vic Wunderle United States 639 145 164 165 108    
9 45 Anton Prylepav Belarus 638 141 155 166      
10 48 Satyadev Prasad India 634 155 158 165      
11 5 Jang Yong-ho Korea 671 162 166 165      
12 27 Xue Haifeng China 653 162 162 164      
13 15 Viktor Ruban Ukraine 660 157 167 162      
14 7 Balzhinima Tsyrempilov Russia 668 148 162 161      
15 25 Oleksandr Serdyuk Ukraine 654 164 165 160      
16 19 Ilario di Buo Italy 659 151 164 155      
17 18 Wang Cheng-pang Chinese Taipei 659 159 167        
18 29 Stanislav Zabrodskiy Kazakhstan 651 145 164        
19 8 Hasse Pavia Lind Denmark 666 158 164        
20 30 Juan Rene Serrano Mexico 651 148 163        
21 21 Michael Frankenberg Germany 657 140 163        
22 37 Takaharu Furukawa Japan 646 146 163        
23 2 Magnus Petersson Sweden 673 158 162        
24 6 Dmytro Hrachov Ukraine 671 154 161        
25 26 Jonas Andersson Sweden 653 160 160        
26 11 Liu Ming-huang Chinese Taipei 663 148 160        
27 14 Wietse van Alten Netherlands 661 152 160        
28 42 Yavor Hristov Bulgaria 641 133 159        
29 33 Alexandros Karageorgiou Greece 647 147 159        
30 49 Ron van der Hoff Netherlands 633 145 155        
31 24 Michele Frangilli Italy 654 153 154        
32 52 Tashi Peljor Bhutan 627 161 152        
33 34 Hasan Orbay Turkey 647 155          
34 38 Jorge Pablo Chapoy Mexico 645 153          
35 51 Ricardo Merlos El Salvador 630 151          
36 39 David Barnes Australia 641 151          
37 17 Yuji Hamano Japan 660 150          
38 56 Franck Fisseux France 622 147          
39 46 Mattias Eriksson Sweden 637 146          
40 54 Ken Uprichard New Zealand 623 145          
41 47 John Magera United States 637 144          
42 28 Yong Fujun China 652 143          
43 32 Tarundeep Rai India 647 143          
44 36 Pieter Custers Netherlands 646 141          
45 41 Lockoneco Lockoneco Indonesia 641 141          
46 40 Felipe Lopez Spain 641 141          
47 50 Jonathan Ohayon Canada 632 140          
48 61 Rob Elder Fiji 583 138          
49 35 Eduardo Avelino Magana Mexico 646 138          
50 20 Simon Fairweather Australia 658 137          
51 13 Jocelyn de Grandis France 663 136          
52 16 Butch Johnson United States 660 135          
53 44 Dmitry Nevmerzhitskiy Russia 639 135          
54 58 Georgios Kalogiannidis Greece 601 133          
55 23 Jacek Proc Poland 657 132          
56 55 Jeff Henckels Luxembourg 623 132          
57 60 Apostolos Nanos Greece 585 131          
58 59 Maged Youssef Egypt 599 128          
59 22 Majhi Sawaiyan India 657 128          
60 53 Thomas Naglieri France 626 127          
61 62 Sifa Taumoepeau Tonga 563 122          
62 57 Ismail Essam Egypt 602 110          
63 64 Yehya Bundhun Mauritius 494 109          
64 63 Phoutlamphay Thiamphasone Laos 557 95          


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Men's individual round of 64

16 August

The first round of elimination narrowed the field from 64 archers to 32 in a standard single-elimination bracket. The loser of each match received a final rank between 33 and 64, depending on his score in the round. Each archer fired six ends of three arrows, for a total possible score of 180. Oleksandr Serdyuk of Ukraine had the highest score in the round, with 164.

The first upset of the day belonged to 43rd-ranked Vic Wunderle of the United States, who defeated 22nd-ranked Majhi Sawaiyan of India. The United States were on the losing end of an even larger upset, though, when Butch Johnson lost to Ron van der Hoff of the Netherlands. The biggest upset occured when 52nd-ranked Tashi Peljor of Bhutan defeated 13th-ranked Jocelyn de Grandis of France to become the lowest ranked archer to advance.

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Men's individual round of 32

18 August

As in the round of 64, archers fired six ends of three arrows in the second round of elimination. This round narrowed the field from 32 to 16 archers, with winners advancing and losers receiving a final rank between 17 and 32 depending on their score in the round. Im Dong-hyun of Korea scored the highest in the round, missing the Olympic record by 1 point with a score of 171. 48th-ranked Satyadev Prasad of India was the lowest ranked archer to advance.

Vic Wunderle of the United States continued to have success in head-to-head competition, eliminating 11th-ranked Wang Cheng-pang of Chinese Taipei. In an astonishing match, 31st-ranked Laurence Godfrey, Great Britain eked out a victory over 2nd-ranked Magnus Petersson of Sweden. Two other of top ten ranked archers fell when 27th-ranked Xue Haifeng of China defeated 6th-ranked Dmytro Hrachov of Ukraine and 25th-ranked Hasse Pavia Lind lost to Oleksandr Serdyuk.

One of the Korean archers, Park Kyung-mo, nearly fell to the Kazakhstani Stanislav Zabrodskiy when Zabrodskiy tied Park through the first 18 arrows and scored a 10 on the first tie-break. Park also scored a 10, and followed it up with a second 10 which Zabrodskiy could not match. A tie-break was also needed in the match between Viktor Ruban of Ukraine and Wang Cheng-pang of Chinese Taipei, which Ruban won 9-8.

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Men's individual round of 16

19 August

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Men's individual quarterfinals

19 August

The first round of 12-arrow matches was the quarterfinals. Winners advanced to the semifinals while losers received a final rank between 5 and 8 depending on score in the quarterfinals. The high score of the round was notched by Tim Cuddihy, with 112.

In a see-saw battle, Marco Galiazzo took a lead over Vic Wunderle in the third end. In a tense final end, Wunderle closed the gap. Galiazzo, needing an 8 to tie on the last arrow, shot a 9 to advance and end Wunderle's run. In a surprise, both of the remaining Korean archers fell to Hiroshi Yamamoto and Tim Cuddihy in 1-point matchs eliminating them from medal contention. Laurence Godfrey had the most decisive victory of the round, a still-close 2-point victory of Chen Szu Yuan.

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Men's individual semifinals

19 August

Yamamoto and Cuddihy both tied the Olympic record for a 12-arrow match (set by Oh Kyo-moon in 1996) by tying their semifinal match at 115. In the tie-breaker, Yamamoto shot first and hit a 10. Cuddihy was unable to match this, shooting a 9 to drop out of gold medal contention.

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Men's individual bronze medal match

19 August

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Men's individual gold medal match

19 August

The gold medal match pitted a first-time-Olympian Italian against a veteran Japanese archer, with the favored Koreans being conspicuously absent. The match consisted of 12 arrows, with the winner taking gold and the loser receiving a silver medal.

With a pair of 10s in the first end, Hiroshi Yamamoto took a quick lead of 1 point over Marco Galiazzo. In the second end, Galiazzo missed perfection by only 1 point, scoring 29 to Yamamoto's 27 to reverse the lead. He hit another pair of 10s in the third end, increasing his lead to 2 points going into the final end. Galiazzo maintained the lead through the final three arrows, winning Italy's first Olympic gold medal in archery. Yamamoto's silver was his second Olympic medal, joining the bronze medal that he won in 1984.

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Women's individual

Gold: Silver: Bronze:
Park Sung Hyun Lee Sung Jin Alison Williamson


The heavily favored Korean women, who had taken the top three spots in the ranking round, won gold and silver medals as well as setting a new world record for a 72-arrow round. Park Sung Hyun and Lee Sung Jin defeated every opponent they faced until their final match against each other, which Park won for the gold medal. Alison Williamson of Great Britain, who was ranked only 21st after the ranking round, was able to win a number of upsets to make it to the semi-finals. After losing that match, she pulled off one more upset to finish with a bronze medal.

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Women's individual ranking round

August 12 09:00 at Dekelia Air Force Base

In the 72 arrow ranking round, the Korean women dominated the field, taking the top three spots and setting a world record with Park Sung Hyun's score of 682. The Chinese women also did well, placing 4th, 5th, and 11th. Yuan Shu Chi and Wu Hui Ju of Chinese Taipei finished 6th and 10th.


Final
Rank 		Ranking
Round
Rank 		Name Nation Ranking
Round
Score 		1/32 1/16 1/8 Quarter-
Finals 		Semi-
Finals 		Finals
1 1 Park Sung Hyun Korea 682
(WR) 		154 165 171 111 110 110
2 2 Lee Sung Jin Korea 675 164 166 165 104 104 108
3 21 Alison Williamson Great Britain 637 147 154 165 109 100 105
4 6 Yuan Shu Chi Chinese Taipei 658 162 158 166 107 98 104
5 3 Yun Mi Jin Korea 673 162 173
(=OR) 		168 105    
6 10 Wu Hui Ju Chinese Taipei 649 156 156 160 103    
7 8 Evangelia Psarra Greece 652 138 163 160 101  
8 4 He Ying China 667 141 158 156 89    
9 19 Jennifer Nichols United States 638 160 163 162      
10 5 Zhang Juanjuan China 663 135 166 161      
11 17 Naomi Folkard Great Britain 638 139 156 159      
12 15 Margarita Galinovskaya Russia 639 153 158 154      
13 24 Almudena Gallardo Spain 631 148 152 152      
14 7 Justyna Mospinek Poland 657 162 163 151      
15 43 Reena Kumari India 620 153 134 148      
16 52 Kirstin Jean Lewis South Africa 606 141 157 142      
17 25 Zekiye Keskin Satir Turkey 631 135 161        
18 14 Tetyana Berezhna Ukraine 640 160 160        
19 29 Melissa Jennison Australia 628 132 158        
20 28 Iwona Marcinkiewicz Poland 628 119 157        
21 23 Anja Hitzler Germany 632 163 156        
22 18 Cornelia Pfohl Germany 638 146 156        
23 26 Viktoriya Beloslydtseva Kazakhstan 629 150 155        
24 20 Sumangala Sharma India 638 142 153        
25 49 Mari Piuva Finland 615 136 151        
26 53 Sayoko Kawauchi Japan 601 137 150        
27 56 Jasmin Figueroa Philippines 600 132 150        
28 35 Sayami Matsushita Japan 624 165 149        
29 27 Malgorzata Sobieraj Poland 628 151 149        
30 33 Natalia Bolotova Russia 625 143 148        
31 34 Elpida Romantzi Greece 624 151 146        
32 54 Tshering Chhoden Bhutan 600 159 134        
33 59 Kateryna Palekha Ukraine 595 158          
34 30 Alexandra Fouace France 627 157          
35 51 Fotini Vavatsi Greece 609 156