Archery at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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Archery
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Archery, London 2012.png
Venue Lord's Cricket Ground
Dates27 July – 3 August 2012
No. of events4 (2 men, 2 women)
Competitors128
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The archery events at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held over an eight-day period from 27 July to 3 August. Four events took place, all being staged at Lord's Cricket Ground in front of temporary stands built to accommodate up to 6,500 spectators.

South Korea was the most successful nation, topping the Olympic archery medal table with three golds and four medals in total.

Competition format

A total of 128 athletes, 64 women and 64 men, 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 FITA-approved 70-metre distance and rules. The competition started with an initial ranking round involving all 64 archers of each gender. Each archer shot 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 then played in a single-elimination tournament format, except for the semi-final losers, who played-off to decide the bronze medal winner.

Individual events

Lord's Cricket Ground hosted the archery events at the 2012 Games. Archery at Lords Cricket Ground 2012 Olympics.jpg
Lord's Cricket Ground hosted the archery events at the 2012 Games.

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 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 were tied then each archer received one point. If at the end of five sets the score was tied at 5–5, a single arrow shoot-off would be held and the closest to the centre would be declared the winner.

Team events

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

Each match consisted of 24 arrows from each team (eight from each team member) and the team with the highest score progressed. In the event of scores being tied, a three-arrow shoot-off would take place.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00).

DayDateStartFinishEventPhase
Day 0Friday 27 July 20129:0015:00 Men's individual Ranking round
Women's individual Ranking round
Day 1Saturday 28 July 20129:0019:00 Men's team Eliminations/Medal round
Day 2Sunday 29 July 20129:0019:00 Women's team Eliminations/Medal round
Day 3Monday 30 July 20129:0017:40Men's individual1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Women's individual1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Day 4Tuesday 31 July 20129:0017:40Men's individual1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Women's individual1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Day 5Wednesday 1 August 20129:0019:00Men's individual1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Women's individual1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Day 6Thursday 2 August 20129:0016:20Women's individual1/8 Eliminations/Quarter/Semi finals/Medal round
Day 7Friday 3 August 20129:0016:20Men's individual1/8 Eliminations/Quarter/Semi finals/Medal round

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 may earn a maximum of one quota place per gender for the individual events. [2]

Six places were reserved for Great Britain 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. [2]

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): [2]

The MQS must have been achieved between 2 July 2011 (starting at the 2011 World Outdoor Archery Championships) and 1 July 2012 at a registered FITA event. [2]

Medal summary

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 3014
2Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1001
3Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 0112
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 0112
Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 0112
6Flag of the United States.svg  United States 0101
Totals (6 entries)44412

Medalists

EventGoldSilverBronze
Men's individual
details
Oh Jin-hyek
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Takaharu Furukawa
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Dai Xiaoxiang
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Men's team
details
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA)
Michele Frangilli
Marco Galiazzo
Mauro Nespoli
Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)
Brady Ellison
Jake Kaminski
Jacob Wukie
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea  (KOR)
Im Dong-hyun
Kim Bub-min
Oh Jin-hyek
Women's individual
details
Ki Bo-Bae
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Aída Román
Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
Mariana Avitia
Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
Women's team
details
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea  (KOR)
Choi Hyeon-ju
Ki Bo-bae
Lee Sung-jin
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China  (CHN)
Cheng Ming
Fang Yuting
Xu Jing
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  (JPN)
Ren Hayakawa
Miki Kanie
Kaori Kawanaka

Gallery of some of the Olympic medalists in the archery competitions:

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