The women's individual archery event at the 2008 Summer Olympics was part of the archery programme. It took place at the Olympic Green Archery Field. Ranking Round was on 9 August 2008. First and second elimination rounds took place on 12 August, and eights, quarterfinal, semifinals and medals matches were on 14 August. All archery was done at a range of 70 metres, with targets 1.22 metres in diameter.

Park Sung-hyun tried to defend her Olympic Gold Medal won in Athens, along with British Alison Williamson, winner of the bronze medal in 2004.

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.

The Chinese archer Zhang Juanjuan defeated South Korean Park Sung-hyun by a margin of 1 point, ending the Koreans' dominance in the women's individual archery event, which dated back to the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Schedule All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8) Date Time RoundSaturday, 9 August 2008 12:00-14:00 Ranking RoundTuesday, 12 August 2008 10:00-12:3515:30-18:05 Round of 64, Round of 32 Thursday, 14 August 2008 10:30-12:15 Round of 16Thursday, 14 August 2008 16:00-16:52 QuarterfinalsThursday, 14 August 2008 16:52-17:20 SemifinalsThursday, 14 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 14 August 12 arrow match Round of 16 Park Sung-hyun 115 OR

Ranking Round

Rank Archer Nation1st Half2nd Half10sXsScore 1 Park Sung-hyun 336 337 34 12 673 2 Yun Ok-Hee 336 331 30 14667 3 Joo Hyun-Jung 339 325 32 10664 4 Khatuna Narimanidze 330 333 28 12 663 5 Kwon Un Sil 324 332 32 9656 6 Yuan Shu Chi 334 318 23 7652 7 Alison Williamson 325 326 22 3651 8 Naomi Folkard 329 32221 6 651 9 Nami Hayakawa 326 323 22 9649 10 Ana Rendón 319 328 22 6647 11 Natalia Erdyniyeva 324 323 21 11647 12 Aida Román 319 327 24 5646 13 Małgorzata Ćwienczek 323 322 27 10645 14 Bérengère Schuh 323 322 24 9645 15 Chen Ling 330 315 18 7645 16 Zekiye Keskin Satir 317 327 21 6644 17 Kristine Esebua 332 311 24 5643 18 Natalia Sánchez 328 315 20 5643 19 Justyna Mospinek 321 322 16 6643 20 Mariana Avitia 328 313 22 6641 21 Viktoriya Koval 318 32320 6 641 22 Laishram Bombaya Devi 319 318 22 9637 23 Miroslava Dagbaeva 318 319 18 2637 24 Jennifer Nichols 320 317 15 6637 25 Guo Dan 322 314 21 8636 26 Khatuna Lorig 319 31618 9 635 27 Zhang Juanjuan 323 312 16 10635 28 Jane Waller 312 322 217634 29 Wu Hui Ju 320 314 19 5634 30 Natalia Valeeva 316 318 14 2634 31 Dola Banerjee 319 314 20 8 633 32 Sophie Dodemont 313 319 13 2 632 33 Anja Hitzler 318 311 17 7 629 34 Marie-Pier Beaudet 319 309 18 6 628 35 Anastassiya Bannova 320 308 16 6 628 36 Leidys Brito 311 317 16 3 628 37 Pranitha Vardhineni 321 306 18 3 627 38 Tetyana Berezhna 314 313 13 5 627 39 Virginie Arnold 310 316 22 7 626 40 Charlotte Burgess 312 311 13 3 623 41 Ika Yuliana Rochmawati 313 308 12 4 621 42 Rina Dewi Puspitasari 317 303 19 6 620 43 Iwona Marcinkiewicz 308 312 13 5 620 44 Barbora Horáčková 313 307 12 4 620 45 Son Hye Yong 308 310 11 4 618 46 Sayoko Kitabatake 317 299 17 5 616 47 Katsiaryna Muliuk 311 305 14 2 616 48 Yuki Hayashi 306 310 13 4 616 49 Elpida Romantzi 309 305 17 5 614 50 Evangelia Psarra 308 305 19 9 613 51 Pia Carmen Lionetti 310 303 18 7 613 52 Louise Laursen 295 310 13 5 605 53 Veronique D'Unienville 304 301 13 3 605 54 Nathalie Dielen 289 312 13 4 601 55 Elena Tonetta 300 295 10 6 595 56 Elena Mousikou 293 296 10 4 589 57 Soha Abed Elaal 289 298 9 1 587 58 Wei Pi-Hsiu 291 294 10 1 585 59 Lexie Feeney 294 286 9 4 580 60 Najmeh Abtin 278 290 12 6 568 61 Dorji Dema 283 284 8 2 567 62 Sigrid Romero 279 272 8 1 551 63 Albina Kamaletdinova 294 253 10 7 547 64 Khadija Abbouda 270 269 7 4 539

Competition bracket

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Finals

Rank Athlete 123456789101112TotalNote 10 7 9 99 9 10 9 10 109 9 110Gold Medal Match 91010881098910810109Gold Medal Match 9 9 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 10 9 8109Bronze Medal Match4 8 10 9 9 10 9 8 8 9 9 8 9 106Bronze Medal Match

References

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