Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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Matches in progress during the women's round of 64 at the Panathinaiko Stadium

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. Korean archers set new world records in the women's individual (Park Sung-Hyun) and team (Park, Yun Mi-Jin, and Lee Sung-Jin) ranking rounds and the men's individual ranking round (Im Dong Hyun), though none of those scores counted as Olympic records because the ranking round was held before the opening ceremony.^[1] Olympic records were broken in both the men's and women's 36-arrow 1/16 and 1/8 rounds combined (by Chen Szu Yuan of Chinese Taipei and Yun of Korea), as well as in the men's 18-arrow match (by Park Kyung Mo of Korea) and 36-arrow finals rounds combined (by Tim Cuddihy of Australia).^[1]

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 shoot each arrow. 64 archers of each sex took part in the Olympics, with each National Olympic Committee being able to enter a maximum of three archers. Each archer shot 12 ends, or groups, of 6 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).

[edit] 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 of each gender. 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 Tripartite Commission.

Each NOC that received three places for individual archers (i.e., the host nation, the top 8 teams at the World Target Competition, and any other nation that was able to take 3 of the remaining 37 places) was able to have its three archers compete as a team in the team competition.

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual details	Marco Galiazzo Italy (ITA)	Hiroshi Yamamoto Japan (JPN)	Tim Cuddihy Australia (AUS)
Women's individual details	Park Sung-Hyun South Korea (KOR)	Lee Sung-Jin South Korea (KOR)	Alison Williamson Great Britain (GBR)
Men's team details	South Korea (KOR) Im Dong-Hyun Jang Yong-Ho Park Kyung-Mo	Chinese Taipei (TPE) Chen Szu-yuan Liu Ming-huang Wang Cheng-pang	Ukraine (UKR) Dmytro Hrachov Viktor Ruban Oleksandr Serdyuk
Women's team details	South Korea (KOR) Lee Sung-Jin Park Sung-Hyun Yun Mi-Jin	China (CHN) He Ying Lin Sang Zhang Juanjuan	Chinese Taipei (TPE) Chen Li Ju Wu Hui Ju Yuan Shu Chi

[edit] Medal table

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.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	3	1	0	4
2	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
3	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	1	2
4	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
6	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
7	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1

[edit] Participating nations

Forty-three nations contributed archers to compete in the events. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of national competitors.

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games Athens 2004 (2004). Archery Official Results Book (PDF) (in English, Greek, and French). 

• Men's individual archery results. Olympics 2004. BBC (2004-08-11). Retrieved on 2007-02-20.
• Official website of the 2004 Summer Olympics

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