Archery at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Archery at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí
Dates	6–12 August
No. of events	4
Competitors	128 from 56 nations

Archery at the 2016 Summer Olympics
List of archers
Qualification
Individual		men		women
Team		men		women

The archery events at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro were held over a seven-day period from 6 to 12 August. Four events took place, all were staged at the Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí.

Competition format

A total of 128 athletes competed across the four events: the men's individual, women's individual, men's team and women's team.^[1]

All four events were recurve archery events, held under the World Archery-approved 70-meter distance and rules. The competition started with an initial ranking round involving all 64 archers of each gender. Each archer would shoot a total of 72 arrows to be seeded from 1–64 according to their score.

The ranking round was also used to seed the teams from 1 to 12, by aggregating the individual scores for the members of each team.

Each event was played in a single-elimination tournament format, except for the semi-final losers, who would play off to decide the bronze medal winner.

Individual events

In the individual events, all 64 competitors entered the competition at the first round, the round of 64. The draw was seeded according to the result of the ranking round so the first seed shot against the 64th seed in the first round.

Each match was scored using the Archery Olympic Round, consisting of the best-of-five sets, with three arrows per set. The winner of each set received two points, and if the scores in the set had tied then each archer would have received one point. If at the end of five sets the score had been tied at 5–5, a single arrow shoot-off would have held and the closest to the center would be declared the winner.

Team events

In the team events, the top four seeded teams from the ranking round will receive a bye to the quarter-final. The remaining eight teams, seeded 5th to 12th, will compete for the remaining four places in the quarter-finals.

For the first time, the team event has followed the same Archery Olympic Round set system as the individual event.

Schedule

All times are Brasília Time (UTC−3).

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of six competitors, three per gender. NOCs that qualified teams for a particular gender were able to send a three-member team to the team event and also have each member compete in the individual event. There were 12 team spots for each gender, thus qualifying 36 individuals through team qualification. All other NOCs might earn a maximum of one quota place per gender for the individual events.^[2]

Six places were reserved for Brazil as the host nation, and a further six were decided by the Tripartite Commission. The remaining 116 places were then allocated through a qualification process, in which archers earned quota places for their respective NOCs, though not necessarily for themselves.

To be eligible to participate in the Olympic Games after the NOC has obtained a quota place, all archers must have achieved the following minimum qualification score (MQS):

• Men: 70m round of 630
• Women: 70m round of 600

The MQS must have been achieved between 26 July 2015 (starting at the 2015 World Archery Championships) and 11 July 2016 at a registered World Archery event.

Participating nations

Archers from 56 nations participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Competitors

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	4	0	1	5
2	United States	0	1	1	2
3	Germany	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
	Russia	0	1	0	1
6	Australia	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
Total 7 NOC'S		4	4	4	12

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual	Ku Bon-chan  South Korea	Jean-Charles Valladont  France	Brady Ellison  United States
Men's team	South Korea (KOR) Ku Bon-chan Lee Seung-yun Kim Woo-jin	United States (USA) Brady Ellison Zach Garrett Jake Kaminski	Australia (AUS) Alec Potts Ryan Tyack Taylor Worth
Women's individual	Chang Hye-jin  South Korea	Lisa Unruh  Germany	Ki Bo-bae  South Korea
Women's team	South Korea (KOR) Chang Hye-jin Choi Mi-sun Ki Bo-bae	Russia (RUS) Tuyana Dashidorzhieva Ksenia Perova Inna Stepanova	Chinese Taipei (TPE) Le Chien-ying Lin Shih-chia Tan Ya-ting

See also

• Archery at the 2014 Asian Games
• Archery at the 2015 European Games
• Archery at the 2015 Pan American Games
• Archery at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Archery at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

External links

• Rio Replay: Men's Archery Individual Gold Medal Match on YouTube
• Rio Replay: Women's Individual Archery Final on YouTube

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