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.

Contents 1 History 2 Medal tables 2.1 From 1972 2.2 All years 3 Qualification 4 Competition 4.1 Individual 4.2 Team 5 Events 5.1 Early Games 5.2 Modern Games 6 Nations 7 Records 8 See also 9 References 10 External links

[edit] 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 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.

[edit] Medal tables

[edit] 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	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
	Spain	1	0	0	1
9	China	0	4	0	4
10	Japan	0	2	1	3
11	Poland	0	2	0	2
	Sweden	0	2	0	2
13	Ukraine	0	1	2	3
14	Chinese Taipei	0	1	1	2
	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

[edit] 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	United States	14	9	8	31
2	South Korea	14	7	4	25
3	Belgium	11	5	4	20
4	France	6	10	6	22
5	Great Britain	2	2	5	9
6	Soviet Union	1	3	3	7
7	Italy	1	1	3	5
8	Finland	1	1	2	4
9	Australia	1	0	1	2
	Netherlands	1	0	1	2
11	Spain	1	0	0	1
12	China	0	4	0	4
13	Japan	0	2	1	3
14	Poland	0	2	0	2
14	Sweden	0	2	0	2
16	Ukraine	0	1	2	3
17	Chinese Taipei	0	1	1	2
	Germany	0	1	1	2
19	Indonesia	0	1	0	1
20	Unified Team	0	0	2	2

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Events

[edit] Early Games

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

1900	1904	1908	1912	1920
6 events, men only	6 events, men and women	3 events, men and women	not held	10 events, men only
Au Cordon Doré, 50 metres Au Cordon Doré, 33 metres Au Chapelet, 50 metres Au Chapelet, 33 metres Sur la Perche à la Herse Sur la Perche à la Pyramide	Team round, men Team round, women Double American round, men Double Columbia round, women Double National round, women Double York round, men	Double National round, women Double York round, men Continental style, men		Individual fixed large bird Individual fixed small bird Individual moving bird, 50 metres Individual moving bird, 33 metres Individual moving bird, 28 metres Team fixed large bird Team fixed small bird Team moving bird, 50 metres Team moving bird, 33 metres Team moving bird, 28 metres

[edit] Modern Games

Event	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	Years
Double FITA round, men	X	X	X	X	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
Double FITA round, women	X	X	X	X	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
Double FITA elimination round, men	-	-	-	-	X	-	-	-	-	-	1
Double FITA elimination round, women	-	-	-	-	X	-	-	-	-	-	1
Elimination round, team men	-	-	-	-	X	-	-	-	-	-	1
Elimination round, team women	-	-	-	-	X	-	-	-	-	-	1
Olympic round, individual men	-	-	-	-	-	X	X	X	X	X	5
Olympic round, individual women	-	-	-	-	-	X	X	X	X	X	5
Olympic round, team men	-	-	-	-	-	X	X	X	X	X	5
Olympic round, team women	-	-	-	-	-	X	X	X	X	X	5
Events	2	2	2	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	32

[edit] 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	Years
American Samoa (ASA)																								X		1
Argentina (ARG)																					X					1
Australia (AUS)																	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	9
Austria (AUT)																		X	X	X						3
Belarus (BLR)																							X	X	X	3
Belgium (BEL)		X				X											X	X	X	X	X	X	X			9
Bhutan (BHU)																				X	X	X	X	X	X	6
Brazil (BRA)																			X	X	X	X				4
Bulgaria (BUL)																			X			X	X		X	4
Canada (CAN)																	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	8
Central African Republic (CAF)																								X		1
Chile (CHI)																								X		1
China (CHN)																				X	X	X	X	X	X	6
Chinese Taipei (TPE)																	X			X	X	X	X	X	X	7
Colombia (COL)																				X		X				2
Costa Rica (CRC)																		X	X			X				3
Cuba (CUB)																								X	X	2
Cyprus (CYP)																						X				1
Czechoslovakia (TCH)																			X			X				2
Denmark (DEN)																	X	X			X	X		X	X	6
Egypt (EGY)																								X	X	2
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	9
France (FRA)		X		X		X											X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	11
Georgia (GEO)																							X	X	X	3
Germany (GER)																						X	X	X	X	4
Great Britain (GBR)				X													X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10
Greece (GRE)																								X	X	2
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
Indonesia (INA)																	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	8
Ireland (IRL)																		X	X	X	X	X	X			6
Italy (ITA)																	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	9
Japan (JPN)																	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	8
Jordan (JOR)																					X					1
Kazakhstan (KAZ)																							X	X	X	3
Kenya (KEN)																							X			1
South Korea (KOR)																	X			X	X	X	X	X	X	7
North Korea (PRK)																		X	X			X		X		4
Laos (LAO)																									X	1
Luxembourg (LUX)																	X		X	X	X	X			X	6
Malaysia (MAS)																									X	1
Malta (MLT)																			X	X	X					3
Mauritius (MRI)																								X	X	2
Mexico (MEX)																	X			X	X	X	X	X	X	7
Moldova (MDA)																							X			1
Monaco (MON)																				X	X					2
Mongolia (MGL)																	X	X	X		X	X	X			6
Myanmar (MYA)																								X	X	2
Netherlands (NED)						X													X	X	X	X	X	X	X	8
New Zealand (NZL)																	X			X	X	X	X	X	X	7
Norway (NOR)																	X	X		X		X	X	X		6
Philippines (PHI)																	X				X			X	X	4
Poland (POL)																	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	8
Portugal (POR)																				X	X	X	X	X		5
Puerto Rico (PUR)																	X	X		X	X		X			5
Romania (ROM)																			X							1
Russia (RUS)																							X	X	X	3
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	4
Soviet Union (URS)					X	X	X		X					4
Spain (ESP)					X		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	8
Sweden (SWE)					X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	9
Switzerland (SUI)					X		X	X	X					4
Tajikistan (TJK)													X	1
Thailand (THA)						X		X						2
Tonga (TGA)													X	1
Turkey (TUR)								X	X	X	X	X	X	6
Ukraine (UKR)											X	X	X	3
Uganda (UGA)												X		1
Unified Team (EUN)										X				1
United States (USA)		X	X		X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	10
Vanuatu (VAN)												X		1
West Germany (FRG)					X	X		X	X					4
Yugoslavia (YUG)						X	X							2
Zimbabwe (ZIM)							X		X					2
Nations	0	2	1	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	27	24	25	35	41	44	41	44	43	83
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	13

[edit] 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	Oh Kyo-moon (KOR)	115	1996
	Tim Cuddihy (AUS)		2004
	Hiroshi Yamamoto (JPN)
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	Kim Soo-nyung (KOR)	114	1992
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

[edit] See also

• List of Olympic medalists in archery

[edit] References

• International Olympic Committee results database

[edit] External links

• IOC Archery
• FITA homepage

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