| Archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics | ||
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| Compound | men | women |
| Recurve | men | women |
| Team | ||
| Recurve | men | women |
The Men's individual recurve was one of the events held in archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. There were two classes: a class for W1 & W2 wheelchair competitors and a class for standing archers. [1] In the ranking round each archer shot 72 arrows; in the knockout stages each match was 12 arrows each.
| Men's individual recurve W1/W2 at the XIII Paralympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympic Green Archery Field | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 9–14 September | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 30 from 17 nations | ||||||||||||
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The W1/W2 class was won by Cheng Changjie, representing 
China. [2]
| Rank | Archer | Score | 10's | X's | Notes |
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| 1 |  Taras Chopyk (UKR) | 636 | 22 | 6 | |
| 2 |  Kim Hong-kyu (KOR) | 632 | 18 | 4 | |
| 3 | Lee Hong-gu (KOR) | 629 | 19 | 8 | |
| 4 |  Oscar de Pellegrin (ITA) | 629 | 14 | 4 | |
| 5 | Cheng Changjie (CHN) | 626 | 16 | 6 | |
| 6 |  Tseng Lung-hui (TPE) | 625 | 19 | 11 | |
| 7 | Marco Vitale (ITA) | 624 | 16 | 5 | |
| 8 |  Muhamad Salam Sidik (MAS) | 620 | 14 | 4 | |
| 9 | Jung Young-joo (KOR) | 616 | 11 | 3 | |
| 10 |  Kevin Stone (USA) | 616 | 9 | 2 | |
| 11 |  Mario Oehme (GER) | 611 | 8 | 2 | |
| 12 | Zulkifli Mat Zin (MAS) | 610 | 15 | 5 | |
| 13 |  Stephane Gilbert (FRA) | 602 | 16 | 3 | |
| 14 |  Mustafa Demir (TUR) | 600 | 13 | 2 | |
| 15 |  Piotr Sawicki (POL) | 593 | 11 | 7 | |
| 16 | Ozgur Ozen (TUR) | 591 | 8 | 3 | |
| 17 |  Manuel Candela (ESP) | 582 | 11 | 3 | |
| 18 |  Sathien Phimthong (THA) | 578 | 9 | 2 | |
| 19 |  Paul James Browne (GBR) | 576 | 11 | 3 | |
| 20 |  Tsunehiko Naganuma (JPN) | 576 | 7 | 2 | |
| 21 |  Miroslav Kacina (SVK) | 566 | 12 | 2 | |
| 22 | Nobuji Yoshida (JPN) | 560 | 10 | 3 | |
| 23 |  Amit Dror (ISR) | 557 | 10 | 1 | |
| 24 | Jose Manuel Marin (ESP) | 557 | 9 | 3 | |
| 25 | Antonino Lisotta (ITA) | 556 | 10 | 2 | |
| 26 | Chen Wu-ying (TPE) | 552 | 2 | 1 | |
| 27 | Suthi Raksamai (THA) | 550 | 6 | 2 | |
| 28 | Janusz Bulyk (POL) | 549 | 7 | 1 | |
| 29 | Russell Wolfe (USA) | 539 | 10 | 1 | |
| 30 | Michael Karaphillides (GBR) | 520 | 3 | 0 |
* Decided by additional arrows: Ozgur Ozen shot 6; Tseng Lung Hui shot 9.
| Men's individual recurve Standing at the XIII Paralympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympic Green Archery Field | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 9–14 September | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 24 from 14 nations | ||||||||||||
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The Standing class was won by Dambadondogiin Baatarjav, representing 
Mongolia. [3]
| Rank | Archer | Score | 10's | X's | Notes |
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| 1 | Mario Esposito (ITA) | 631 | 19 | 6 | |
| 2 | Chen Yegang (CHN) | 628 | 18 | 5 | |
| 3 | Dong Zhi (CHN) | 625 | 20 | 8 | |
| 4 | Cho Hyun-kwan (KOR) | 625 | 19 | 3 | |
| 5 | Kimimasa Onodera (JPN) | 620 | 16 | 8 | |
| 6 | Dambadondogiin Baatarjav (MGL) | 618 | 17 | 3 | |
| 7 | Takahiro Hasegawa (JPN) | 611 | 14 | 7 | |
| 8 |  Timur Tuchinov (RUS) | 606 | 14 | 5 | |
| 9 | Juan Miguel Zarzuela (ESP) | 602 | 15 | 6 | |
| 10 | Imrich Lyocsa (SVK) | 602 | 10 | 2 | |
| 11 | Mick Beard (GBR) | 597 | 9 | 2 | |
| 12 | Sakon Inkaew (THA) | 597 | 8 | 2 | |
| 13 | Fabrice Meunier (FRA) | 597 | 7 | 0 | |
| 14 | Tomasz Lezanski (POL) | 596 | 12 | 5 | |
| 15 | Yoon Young Bae (KOR) | 594 | 8 | 3 | |
| 16 | Zhu Weiliang (CHN) | 591 | 11 | 3 | |
| 17 | An Tae-sung (KOR) | 580 | 18 | 8 | |
| 18 | Yuriy Kopiy (UKR) | 576 | 8 | 2 | |
| 19 | Antonio Sanchez (ESP) | 571 | 6 | 2 | |
| 20 | Akira Haraguchi (JPN) | 557 | 7 | 3 | |
| 21 | Ryszard Olejnik (POL) | 550 | 11 | 1 | |
| 22 | Vladimir Majercak (SVK) | 546 | 7 | 3 | |
| 23 | Serhiy Atamanenko (UKR) | 510 | 6 | 1 | |
| 24 |  Romaios Roumeliotis (GRE) | 475 | 5 | 1 |
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