Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Archery at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad | |
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Venue | Panathinaiko Stadium |
Dates | 15–21 August 2004 |
No. of events | 4 (2 men, 2 women) |
Competitors | 128 from 43 nations |
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Qualification and format
There were four ways for National Olympic Committees (NOCs) to qualify individual archers for the Olympics in archery. For each gender, the host nation (Greece) was guaranteed three spots. The 2003 World Target Competition's top 8 teams (not including the host nation) each received three spots, and the 19 highest ranked archers after the team qualifiers were removed also received spots. Fifteen of the remaining eighteen spots were divided equally among the five Olympic continents for allocation in continental tournaments. The last three spots in each gender were determined by the Tripartite Commission. Sixty-four archers of each sex took part in the Olympics, with each NOC being able to enter a maximum of three archers.[1]
For all archery events at the Olympics, archers stand 70 metres from their target. The target consists of concentric circles, and has a total diameter of 122 cm. Archers earn points based on which circle their arrow landed in, with ten points awarded for hitting the center circle, and one point awarded for hitting the outermost circle.[1] During the ranking rounds, each archer shot twelve ends, or groups, of six arrows per end. The score from that round determined the match-ups in the elimination rounds, with high-ranking archers facing low-ranking archers. The first three rounds of elimination used six ends of three arrows, narrowing the field of archers from 64 to 8. The three final rounds (quarterfinals, semifinals, and medal matches) each used four ends of three arrows.[4]
Thirteen men's and fifteen women's teams competed in the team competitions. The teams consisted of the country's three archers from the individual round, and the team's initial ranking was determined by summing the three members' scores in the individual ranking round. Each round of eliminations consisted of each team shooting 27 arrows (9 by each archer).[4]
Medal summary
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's individual |
Marco Galiazzo Italy |
Hiroshi Yamamoto Japan |
Tim Cuddihy Australia |
Men's team |
Park Kyung-Mo
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Chinese Taipei (TPE) Chen Szu-yuan Liu Ming-huang Wang Cheng-pang |
Ukraine (UKR) Dmytro Hrachov Viktor Ruban Oleksandr Serdyuk |
Women's individual |
Park Sung-hyun South Korea |
Alison Williamson Great Britain | |
Women's team |
Yun Mi-Jin
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China (CHN) He Ying Lin Sang Zhang Juanjuan |
Event summary
For the sixth Olympics in a row, the South Korean team came out as the clear victor, taking three out of the four gold medals in Athens.
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In the men's events, the Korean team shot 12 maximum scores of 10 to win the gold medal against Chinese Taipei 251-245. Losing by two points, the United States failed to fend off the Ukraine team to capture the bronze.
The woman's individual event fell easily to the Koreans; they have won this event continuously since the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles[11] and swept all three medals at the 2000 Olympics.[12] Though both gold and silver fell to Korean archers, Alison Williamson captured the bronze medal, giving Britain its first medal in archery since 1992.[12] In the team event, the Korean women beat the Chinese team 241-240 to win the gold medal, making this their eleventh straight women's team championship win. Chinese Taipei easily took the bronze medal over France.[13]
Participating nations
Forty-three nations contributed archers to compete in the events. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of national competitors.[6]
- Australia (6)
- Belarus (2)
- Bhutan (2)
- Bulgaria (1)
- Canada (2)
- China (5)
- Chinese Taipei (6)
- Cuba (1)
- Denmark (1)
- Egypt (4)
- El Salvador (1)
- Fiji (1)
- Finland (1)
- France (6)
- Georgia (2)
- Germany (4)
- Great Britain (4)
- Greece (6)
- India (6)
- Indonesia (2)
- Italy (4)
- Japan (6)
- Kazakhstan (3)
- South Korea (6)
- Laos (1)
- Luxembourg (1)
- Malaysia (1)
- Mauritius (1)
- Mexico (3)
- Myanmar (1)
- Netherlands (3)
- New Zealand (1)
- Philippines (1)
- Poland (4)
- Russia (5)
- South Africa (1)
- Spain (2)
- Sweden (3)
- Tajikistan (1)
- Tonga (1)
- Turkey (4)
- Ukraine (6)
- United States (6)
Medal table
Korea continued its domination of the sport, winning three of the four gold medals as well as a silver. Marco Galiazzo won the men's individual competition, earning Italy the nation's first gold medal in Olympic archery, blocking Hiroshi Yamamoto's attempt to win Japan's first gold medal. Chinese Taipei, which had never before won a medal in archery, won a silver and a bronze.
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
2 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
3 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
4 | China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Japan (JPN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
6 | Australia (AUS) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (8 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
References
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- ^ a b Drape, Joe (17 August 2004). "It's Ready, Aim, Wait for the Mighty Wind Gusts to Die Down, and Fire". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
- ^ Berardino, Mike (19 August 2004). "Athens' 1896 Stadium is a Classic". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
- ^ a b "Beginner's Guide to Archery". BBC Sport. 23 April 2004. Retrieved 2 August 2008.
- ^ "South Korean archers break three records in qualifying". Associated Press. 12 August 2004. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
- ^ a b c Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games Athens 2004 (2004). Archery Official Results Book (PDF) (in Greek and French).
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- ^ Labi, Sharon (18 August 2004). "Cuddihy Scrapes Through on Final Arrow". The Age. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
- ^ "South Koreans Set Olympic, World Archery Records". Associated Press. 12 August 2004. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
- ^ a b Gordos, Phil (18 August 2004). "Williamson hints at rethink". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
- ^ "Koreans Take 11th Title". BBC Sport. 20 August 2004. Retrieved 3 August 2008.