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| Men's individual AR1 at the IX Paralympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Camp Olímpic de Tir amb Arc | ||||||||||||
| Dates | September 1992 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 10 from 8 nations | ||||||||||||
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The Men's Individual AR1 was an archery competition in the 1992 Summer Paralympics. [1]
Gold medalist, Koichi Minami, set a world record in the qualifying round. In the final he beat the US archer Richard Spizzirri.
| Rank | Archer | Points | Notes |
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| 1 |  Koichi Minami (JPN) | 1186 | WR |
| 2 |  Walter Williams (USA) | 1150 | |
| 3 |  Martti Rantavouri (FIN) | 1098 | |
| 4 |  Giampiero Mercandelli (ITA) | 1052 | |
| 5 | Hannu Airaksinen (FIN) | 1032 | |
| 6 |  Oddbjorn Stebekk (NOR) | 933 | |
| 7 | Richard Spizzirri (USA) | 912 | |
| 8 |  Kurt MacCaferri (SUI) | 890 | |
| 9 |  Ernest Arnold (GBR) | 868 | |
| 10 |  Reiner Schneider (GER) | 750 |
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Koichi Minami (JPN) | 96 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Kurt MacCaferri (SUI) | 63 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Koichi Minami (JPN) | 91 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Giampiero Mercandelli (ITA) | 86 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Hannu Airaksinen (FIN) | 78 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Giampiero Mercandelli (ITA) | 79 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Koichi Minami (JPN) | 96 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Richard Spizzirri (USA) | 90 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Martti Rantavouri (FIN) | 90 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Oddbjorn Stebekk (NOR) | 92 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Oddbjorn Stebekk (NOR) | 64 | Bronze medal match | |||||||||||
| 7 | Richard Spizzirri (USA) | 92 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Richard Spizzirri (USA) | 91 | 4 | Giampiero Mercandelli (ITA) | 92 | |||||||||
| 2 | Walter Williams (USA) | 71 | 6 | Oddbjorn Stebekk (NOR) | 67 | |||||||||
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