The men's team 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 August 9 and elimination rounds and Finals took place on August 11. All archery is done at a range of 70 metres, with targets 1.22 metres in diameter.
As the defending Olympic champions, South Korea defended the title with two archers from the past Games, Im Dong-Hyun and Park Kyung-Mo. Chinese Taipei, silver at the last Games, participated at the event with only one Athens medalist, Wang Cheng Pang. Ukraine, bronze in Athens, brought Viktor Ruban and Oleksandr Serdyuk back at the Games.
12 teams qualified for the event at the Beijing Olympics: host China, plus the top 8 teams at the 44th Outdoor Archery World championship, held in Leipzig, Germany, and 3 other NOCs that qualified three athletes for the Games.
The competition begins with the same ranking round used to determine the individual event seeding. Each archer fires 72 arrows, with the scores of the team's three members summed to give the team score. The elimination rounds use a single-elimination tournament, with fixed brackets based on the ranking round seeding. Highly ranked teams get byes through to the quarterfinals. In each round of elimination, the two teams each fire 24 arrows (with each individual archer accounting for 8 of them). The higher scoring team moves on, while the lower scoring team is eliminated. The two semifinal losers face off for the bronze medal.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. The change from the prior 27 arrow match to a 24 arrow match for the XXIX Olympiad meant that there was no standing Olympic record in the team match.
216 arrow ranking round
24 arrow match
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
Date Record Round Name Nationality Score OR WR 11 August 24 arrow match First Round Rafał DobrowolskiPiotr PiątekJacek Proć 223 OR 11 August 24 arrow match Quarterfinal Im Dong-HyunLee Chang-HwanPark Kyung-Mo 224 OR 11 August 24 arrow match Final Im Dong-HyunLee Chang-HwanPark Kyung-Mo 227 OR
World Rankings Entering Olympics
RankTeam 1 2 3 4 7 8 9 12 14 15 17 20
Ranking Round SourceQualification - Men's Team
RankTeam1st Half2nd Half10sXsScore1 2015 Im Dong-Hyun 335335339670 Lee Chang-Hwan 3333363011669 Park Kyung-Mo 33534136146762 1997 Markiyan Ivashko 329329236658 Viktor Ruban 341337348678 Oleksandr Serdyuk 33133028116763 1993 Cheng Chu Sian 3293312710 660 Khalmizam Wan Abd Aziz 333341319674 Muhammad Marbawi Sulaiman 327332 29 86594 1989 Andrey Abramov 3303302811660 Bair Badënov 329329245658 Balzhinima Tsyrempilov 3393323812671 5 1988Laurence Godfrey 324333223657Simon Terry 3303403513670 Alan Wills 3353262896616 1986Ilario Di Buò 333337309670Marco Galiazzo 3293383112667 Mauro Nespoli 328321235649 7 1980Chen Szu-Yuan 323331254667Kuo Cheng Wei 323336246659 Wang Cheng Pang331336329654 8 1977 Rafał Dobrowolski 33033731 8 667 Piotr Piątek 327 322 26 7649 Jacek Proć 333 328 31 5661 9 1977Matthew Gray 325329 20 3 654Sky Kim 333332 25 4 665Michael Naray 328330 29 8 65810 1969 Brady Ellison 328336 32 11 664 Richard Johnson 326327 215 653 Victor Wunderle 318 334 278 652 11 1954John-David Burnes 320 324 22 4 644Crispin Duenas 333 331 298 664Jason Lyon 322324 247 64612 1941Jiang Lin 320 31216 2 632Li Wenquan 319 327 2510 646Xue Haifeng 334 329 299 663
Elimination round SourceArrow by Arrow - Men's team
Final Match Details RankTeam AthletesEnd Arrows Score 24-Match Total 227 Lee Chang-Hwan Im Dong-Hyun Park Kyung-Mo 1 10 10 10 30 10 10 8 282 10 10 10 30 9 10 10 293 9 9 9 27 9 9 10 284 9 9 9 27 9 10 9 28 24-Match Total 225 Mauro Nespoli Ilario Di Buò Marco Galiazzo 1 10 10 7 27 10 10 9 292 9 8 10 27 10 9 9 283 10 9 10 29 10 10 10 304 9 10 10 29 9 10 7 26
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