The men's individual archery event at the 2008 Summer Olympics was part of the archery programme and took place at the Olympic Green Archery Field. Ranking Round was scheduled for 9 August. First and second elimination rounds took place on 13 August, and eights, quarterfinal, semifinals and medals matches were staged on 15 August. All archery was done at a range of 70 metres, with targets 1.22 metres in diameter.
Marco Galiazzo was at Beijing to defend his Olympic Gold Medal won on Athens but failed to qualify for the finals after being defeated in the Round of 32. Japanese Hiroshi Yamamoto, silver at the last Games, and Australian Tim Cuddihy did not participate at the Chinese Games.
64 archers from 37 countries qualified for the event at the Beijing Olympics. The 44th Outdoor Archery World championship, held in Leipzig, Germany, plus 5 continental qualification tournaments and a Final World Qualification Tournament selected 61 slots for the event, along with 3 Tripartite Commission Invitations.
The competition began with the ranking round. Each archer fired 72 arrows. This round was done entirely to seed the elimination brackets; all archers moved on to them. The elimination rounds used a single-elimination tournament, with fixed brackets based on the ranking round seeding. In each round of elimination, the two archers in each match fired 12 arrows; the archer with the higher score advanced to the next round while the other archer was eliminated. Unlike in previous years, in which the first three rounds used an 18-arrow match, the 12-arrow match was used throughout the 2008 tournament.
Schedule
All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8) Date Time RoundSaturday, 9 August 2008 15:30-17:30 Ranking RoundWednesday, 13 August 2008 10:00-12:3515:30-18:05 Round of 64, Round of 32 Friday, 15 August 2008 10:30-12:15 Round of 16Friday, 15 August 2008 16:00-16:52 QuarterfinalsFriday, 15 August 2008 16:52-17:20 SemifinalsFriday, 15 August 2008 17:21-17:50 Finals
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
72 arrow ranking round
12 arrow match
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
Date Record Round Name Nationality Score OR WR 13 August 12 arrow match Round of 64 Jacek Proc 116 OR 13 August 12 arrow match Round of 32 Lee Chang-hwan 117 OR
Results
Ranking Round
RankArcher NationScore1 Juan René Serrano 6792 Mangal Singh Champia 6783 Viktor Ruban 6784 Park Kyung-Mo 6765 Wan Kalmizam 6746 Balzhinima Tsyrempilov 6717 Simon Terry 6708 Im Dong-Hyun 6709 Ilario Di Buò 67010 Lee Chang-Hwan 66911 Wang Cheng Pang 66712 Marco Galiazzo 66713 Rafał Dobrowolski 66714 Sky Kim 66515 Brady Ellison 66416 Crispin Duenas 66417 Takaharu Furukawa 66318 Xue Haifeng 66319 Jacek Proć 66120 Oleksandr Serdyuk 66121 Alan Wills 66122 Ryuichi Moriya 66123 Yusuf Ergin 66024 Eduardo Vélez 66025 Andrey Abramov 66026 Cheng Chu Sian 66027 Muhammad Marbawi 65928 Juan Carlos Stevens 65929 Kuo Cheng Wei 65930 Michael Naray 65831 Bair Badënov 65832 Markiyan Ivashko 65833 Daniel Morillo 65734 Laurence Godfrey 65735 Jean-Charles Valladont 65636 Mark Javier 65437 Calvin Hartley 65438 Chen Szu Yuan 65439 Matthew Gray 65440 Richard Johnson 65341 Vic Wunderle 65242 Nuno Pombo 65043 Piotr Piątek 64944 Mauro Nespoli 64945 Jens Pieper 64846 Li Wenquan 64647 Jason Lyon 64648 Maksim Kunda 64649 Magnus Petersson 64650 John David Burnes 64451 Romain Girouille 64152 Nay Myo Aung 63753 Niels Dall 63454 Tashi Peljor 63255 Jiang Lin 63256 Martin Bulíř 62957 Ali Al-Yazidi 62758 Matti Hatava 61959 Daniel Pavlov 61860 Alexandru Bodnar 61461 Luiz Trainini 61062 Maged Youssef 60563 Hojjatollah Vaezi 60464 Joseph Muaausa 563
Competition bracket
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Finals
Rank Athlete 123456789101112TotalNote 91010999101099910113Gold Medal Match 99101010101099989112Gold Medal Match 1099109991010101010115Bronze Medal Match4 91010109710989910110Bronze Medal Match
External links FITA Results
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