Archery at the Summer Olympics
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Archery had its debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics and has been contested in 13 Olympiads. Eighty three different nations have appeared in the Olympic archery competitions, with France appearing the most often at 11 times. It is governed by the International Archery Federation. Recurve archery is the only discipline of archery featured at the Olympic Games.

History

The second Olympic games, Paris 1900, saw the first appearance of archery. 7 disciplines in varying distances were contested. The next Olympics, 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 double 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.

Medal tables

From 1972

1972 marked the beginning of the modern archery competition at the Olympic Games. The events began to use standardized forms and many nations competed.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	16	9	5	30
2	United States	8	3	2	13
3	China	1	5	1	7
4	Soviet Union	1	3	3	7
5	Italy	1	2	3	6
6	Finland	1	1	2	4
	Ukraine	1	1	2	4
8	Australia	1	0	1	2
	France	1	0	1	2
10	Spain	1	0	0	1
11	Japan	0	2	1	3
12	Sweden	0	2	0	2
13	Chinese Taipei	0	1	1	2
	Germany	0	1	1	2
	Poland	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
	Russia	0	0	1	1
Total	20 nations	32	32	32	96

All years

This table includes archery competitions in 1900, 1904, 1908, and 1920 in addition to the ones from 1972 on, which are shown above. These four years preceded the modern, standardized archery competition under the rules of the International Archery Federation and were contested by three nations at most. In one year (1904), only the United States competed. Other nations that competed during that period were France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Great Britain.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	16	9	5	30
2	United States (USA)	14	9	8	31
3	Belgium (BEL)	11	6	3	20
4	France (FRA)	6	10	7	23
5	Great Britain (GBR)	2	2	5	9
6	China (CHN)	1	5	1	7
7	Soviet Union (URS)	1	3	3	7
8	Italy (ITA)	1	2	3	6
9	Finland (FIN)	1	1	2	4
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	1	2	4
11	Australia (AUS)	1	0	1	2
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	1	2
13	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
14	Japan (JPN)	0	2	1	3
15	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	0	2
16	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	1	2
	Germany (GER)	0	1	1	2
	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
19	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	0	1
20	Unified Team (EUN)	0	0	2	2
21	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
Total		57	56	48	161

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 of each gender. 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 Tripartite Commission invitation.

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

Competition

Modern Olympic archery consists of four medal events: men's individual, women's individual, men's team, and women's team. In all four events, the distance from the archer to the target is 70 metres.

Individual

In the individual competitions, 64 archers compete. The competition begins with the ranking round. Each archer shoots 72 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.

Pre-2008

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.

2008 changes

All matches in 2008 were in the previous finals round format, using 12 arrow matches. Archers alternated shooting by arrow.

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.

2008 changes

The number of arrows per team in a match was reduced to 24, in 4 ends of 6 arrows. Each of the three archers on a team shot 8 arrows in a match.

Events

Early Games

Early Olympic archery competitions had events that were unique for each of the Games.

Modern Games

Nations

The following nations have taken part in the archery competition.

Event	96	00	04	08	12	20	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	Years
American Samoa (ASA)																								X			1
Argentina (ARG)																					X						1
Australia (AUS)																	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	5	10
Austria (AUT)																		X	X	X							3
Belarus (BLR)																							X	X	X	2	4
Belgium (BEL)		18				X											X	X	X	X	X	X	X				9
Bhutan (BHU)																				X	X	X	X	X	X	2	7
Brazil (BRA)																			X	X	X	X				1	5
Bulgaria (BUL)																			X			X	X		X	1	5
Canada (CAN)																	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	4	9
Central African Republic (CAF)																								X			1
Chile (CHI)																								X			1
China (CHN)																				X	X	X	X	X	X	6	7
Chinese Taipei (TPE)																	X			X	X	X	X	X	X	6	8
Colombia (COL)																				X		X				3	3
Costa Rica (CRC)																		X	X			X					3
Cuba (CUB)																								X	X	1	3
Cyprus (CYP)																						X				1	2
Czech Republic (CZE)																										2	1
Czechoslovakia (TCH)																			X			X					2
Denmark (DEN)																	X	X			X	X		X	X	2	7
Egypt (EGY)																								X	X	2	3
El Salvador (ESA)																								X	X		2
Estonia (EST)																						X	X				2
Fiji (FIJ)																									X		1
Finland (FIN)																	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	1	10
France (FRA)		129		15		X											X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	5	12
Georgia (GEO)																							X	X	X	2	4
Germany (GER)																						X	X	X	X	2	5
Great Britain (GBR)				41													X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	6	11
Greece (GRE)																								X	X	2	3
Guam (GUM)																						X					1
Hong Kong (HKG)																				X	X	X					3
Hungary (HUN)																	X		X			X	X				4
India (IND)																					X	X	X		X	4	5
Indonesia (INA)																	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	2	9
Iran (IRI)																										2	1
Ireland (IRL)																		X	X	X	X	X	X				6
Italy (ITA)																	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	6	10
Japan (JPN)																	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	5	9
Jordan (JOR)																					X						1
Kazakhstan (KAZ)																							X	X	X	1	4
Kenya (KEN)																							X				1
Laos (LAO)																									X		1
Luxembourg (LUX)																	X		X	X	X	X			X		6
Malaysia (MAS)																									X	3	2
Malta (MLT)																			X	X	X						3
Mauritius (MRI)																								X	X	1	3
Mexico (MEX)																	X			X	X	X	X	X	X	4	8
Moldova (MDA)																							X				1
Monaco (MON)																				X	X						2
Mongolia (MGL)																	X	X	X		X	X	X				6
Morocco (MAR)																										1	1
Myanmar (MYA)																								X	X	1	3
Netherlands (NED)		6				X													X	X	X	X	X	X	X		9
New Zealand (NZL)																	X			X	X	X	X	X	X		7
Norway (NOR)																	X	X		X		X	X	X			6
North Korea (PRK)																		X	X			X		X		2	5
Philippines (PHI)																	X				X			X	X	1	5
Poland (POL)																	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	6	9
Portugal (POR)																				X	X	X	X	X		1	6
Puerto Rico (PUR)																	X	X		X	X		X				5
Qatar (QAT)																										1	1
Romania (ROU)																			X							1	2
Russia (RUS)											X	X	X	5	4
Samoa (SAM)														1	1
San Marino (SMR)										X	X				2
Saudi Arabia (KSA)								X	X						2
Slovenia (SLO)										X	X	X			3
Solomon Islands (SOL)									X						1
South Africa (RSA)										X	X	X	X	1	5
South Korea (KOR)					X			X	X	X	X	X	X	6	8
Soviet Union (URS)					X	X	X		X						4
Spain (ESP)					X		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	1	9
Sweden (SWE)					X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	1	10
Switzerland (SUI)					X		X	X	X					1	5
Tajikistan (TJK)													X	1	2
Thailand (THA)						X		X							2
Tonga (TGA)													X		1
Turkey (TUR)								X	X	X	X	X	X	2	7
Ukraine (UKR)											X	X	X	5	4
Uganda (UGA)												X			1
Unified Team (EUN)										X					1
United States (USA)		29	1		X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	5	11
Vanuatu (VAN)												X			1
Venezuela (VEN)														1	1
West Germany (FRG)					X	X		X	X						4
Yugoslavia (YUG)						X	X								2
Zimbabwe (ZIM)							X		X						2
No. of nations	0	3	1	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	27	24	25	35	41	44	41	44	43	49	89
No. of archers	0	153	29	57																						128
Year	96	00	04	08	12	20	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	14

Records

The Olympic records for archery are for the competition format established in 1992.

Men's

# of arrows	Archer(s)	Score	Games
72 (ranking)	Im Dong-hyun (KOR)	687	2004
18	Park Kyung-mo (KOR)	173	2004
12	Lee Chang Hwan (KOR)	117	2008
36 (finals)	Tim Cuddihy (AUS)	340	2004
216 (team ranking)	South Korea (KOR) Jang Yong-ho Kim Bo-ram Oh Kyo-moon	2031	1996
27 (team)	South Korea (KOR) Jang Yong-ho Oh Kyo-moon Kim Chung-tae	258	2000
54 (team finals)	United States (USA) Justin Huish Butch Johnson Rodney White	502	1996

Women's

# of arrows	Archer(s)	Score	Games
72 (ranking)	Park Sung Hyun (KOR)	682	2004
18	Yun Mi-Jin (KOR)	173	2000
			2004
12	Park Sung Hyun (KOR)	115	2008
36 (finals)	Kim Nam Soom (KOR)	334	2000
216 (team ranking)	South Korea (KOR) Park Sung Hyun Lee Sung Jin Yun Mi-Jin	2030	2004
27 (team)	South Korea (KOR) Kim Soo-nyung Kim Nam-soon Yun Mi-Jin	252	2000
54 (team finals)	South Korea (KOR) Kim Soo-nyung Kim Nam-soon Yun Mi-Jin	502	2000
24 (team finals)	South Korea (KOR) Park Sung Hyun Joo Hyun Jung Yoon Oc Hie	231	2008

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in archery

References

• International Olympic Committee results database

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