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Archery at the Summer Olympics

Archery at the Summer Olympics had its debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics and has been contested in 13 Olympiads. It is governed by the International Archery Federation.

History

The second Olympic games, Paris 1900, saw the first appearance of archery. 7 disciplines in varying distances were contested. The next Olympiad, St. Louis 1904, had 5 archery events but no athletes from outside the United States competed. At the 1908 Summer Olympics, there were 3 archery events. Archery was not featured at the 1912 Summer Olympics but reappeared in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Between 1920 and 1972, archery was not contested at the Olympic games. The archery competition that was featured at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich consisted of a FITA Round competition with two events - men's individual and women's individual. This form of the archery competition was held until the 1988 Summer Olympics, when team competition was added and the Grand FITA Round format was used. Starting at the 1992 Summer Olympics, the Olympic Round with head-to-head matches was adopted, and has been used ever since.

Medals (from 1972 only)

Gold: Silver: Bronze:

Position	Country:	Total:
1	Korea	14	7	4	25
2	United States	8	3	2	13
3	Soviet Union	1	3	3	7
4	Italy	1	1	3	5
5	Finland	1	1	2	4
6	Australia	1	0	1	2
7	France	1	0	0	1
7	Spain	1	0	0	1
9	China	0	4	0	4
10	Japan	0	2	1	3
11	Poland	0	2	0	1
11	Sweden	0	2	0	2
13	Ukraine	0	1	2	3
14	Chinese Taipei	0	1	1	2
14	Germany	0	1	1	2
16	Indonesia	0	1	0	1
17	Great Britain	0	0	4	4
18	Unified Team	0	0	2	2
19	Netherlands	0	0	1	1

Qualification

Qualification spots in archery are allotted to National Olympic Committees rather than to individual athletes.

There were four ways for NOCs to earn berths in Olympic archery. No NOC is allowed to enter more than three archers. For each gender, the host nation is guaranteed three spots. The most recent World Target Competition's top 8 teams (besides the host nation) each receive three spots, and the 19 highest ranked archers after the team qualifiers are removed also earn spots for their country. 15 of the remaining 18 spots are divided equally among the five Olympic continents for allocation in continental tournaments. The last three spots in each gender are determined by the arrows (in six ends, or groups, of 12 arrows). They are then ranked by score to determine their seeding for the single-elimination bracket. After this, final rankings for each archer is determined by the archer's score in the round in which the archer was defeated, with the archers defeated in the first round being ranked 33rd through 64th.

The first elimination round pits the first ranked archer against the sixty-fourth, the second against the sixty-third, and so on. In this match as well as the second and third, the archers shoot simultaneously 18 arrows in ends of 3 arrows. The archer with the higher score after 18 arrows moves on to the next round while the loser is eliminated.

After three such rounds, there are 8 archers remaining. The remaining three rounds (quarterfinals, semifinals, and medal matches) are referred to as the finals rounds. They consist of each archer firing 12 arrows, again in ends of 3 arrows. The two archers in the match alternate by arrow instead of firing their arrows simultaneously as in the first three rounds. The losers of the quarterfinals are eliminated, while the losers of the semifinals play each other to determine the bronze medal and fourth place. The two archers who are undefeated through the semifinals face each other in the gold medal match, in which the winner takes the gold medal while the loser receives the silver medal.

Team

Each country that has three archers in the individual competition also gets to compete as a team. The same three archers from the individual competition must compete as the country's team. Their scores in the individual ranking round are added to determine the team's ranking round score.

The first team round is the round of 16, but as the number of teams is usually between 9 and 15 the highest ranked teams typically get a bye in the first round. Matches consist of each team firing 27 arrows in 3 ends of 9 arrows, with each archer on the team firing 3 arrows per end. Advancement and medals are determined in the same manner as the individual competition.

Records

The Olympic records for archery have all been set in 1992 or later.

Men's

# of arrows	Name	Country	Score	Olympiad
72 (ranking)	Im Dong-hyun	Korea	687	2004
18	Park Kyung-mo	Korea	173	2004
12	Oh Kyo-moon Hiroshi Yamamoto Tim Cuddihy	Korea Japan Australia	115 115 115	1996 2004 2004
36 (finals)	Tim Cuddihy	Australia	340	2004
216 (team ranking)	Jang Yong-ho Kim Bo-ram Oh Kyo-moon	Korea	2031	1996
27 (team)	Jang Yong-ho Oh Kyo-moon Kim Chung-tae	Korea	258	2000
52 (team finals)	Justin Huish Butch Johnson Rodney White	United States	502	1996

Women's

# of arrows	Name	Country	Score	Olympiad
72 (ranking)	Park Sung Hyun	Korea	682	2004
18	Yun Mi Jin Yun Mi Jin	Korea Korea	173 173	2000 2004
12	Kim Soo-nyung	Korea	114	1992
36 (finals)	Kim Nam Soom	Korea	334	2000
216 (team ranking)	Park Sung Hyun Lee Sung Jin Yun Mi Jin	Korea	2030	2004
27 (team)	Kim Soo-nyung Archery at the Summer Olympics
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