- Men's Individual Archery at the Summer Olympics
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Men's Individual Archery.
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History
Numerous and diverse archery events were included in the 1900, 1904, 1908, and 1920 Summer Olympics. Since archery was reintroduced at the 1972 Munich Games, an individual men's event has been a part of the program. It has undergone some format changes. Notably the Double FITA Round was altered to an Olympic Round beginning at the 1992 Barcelona games.
Darrell Pace of the United States is the most decorated archer in the Men's Individual Archery event, having earned two gold medals in 1976 and 1984. The United States has the most medals and golds: 10 and 5, respectively. 13 nations and 27 athletes have shared the 30 medals awarded in this event.
Format
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 shooting 12 arrows, again in ends of 3 arrows. The two archers in the match alternate by arrow instead of shooting 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.
Medalists
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1972 Munich
John Williams (USA)
Gunnar Jervill (SWE)
Kyösti Laasonen (FIN)1976 Montreal
Darrell Pace (USA)
Hiroshi Michinaga (JPN)
Giancarlo Ferrari (ITA)1980 Moscow
Tomi Poikolainen (FIN)
Boris Isachenko (URS)
Giancarlo Ferrari (ITA)1984 Los Angeles
Darrell Pace (USA) Richard McKinney (USA) Hiroshi Yamamoto (JPN)1988 Seoul
Jay Barrs (USA)
Park Sung-Soo (KOR)
Vladimir Yesheyev (URS)1992 Barcelona
Sébastien Flute (FRA) Chung Jae-Hun (KOR)
Simon Terry (GBR)1996 Atlanta
Justin Huish (USA) Magnus Petersson (SWE) Oh Kyo-Moon (KOR)2000 Sydney
Simon Fairweather (AUS) Vic Wunderle (USA)
Wietse van Alten (NED)2004 Athens
Marco Galiazzo (ITA) Hiroshi Yamamoto (JPN) Tim Cuddihy (AUS)2008 Beijing
Viktor Ruban (UKR) Park Kyung-Mo (KOR)
Bair Badënov (RUS)2012 London References
External links
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