The Women'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 10. 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 only one remaining archer from the previous Games, Park Sung-hyun, winner of two gold medals. China, silver at the last Games, participated at the team event with only one Athens medalist, Zhang Juanjuan and tried to bring the gold medal to the hosts. Chinese Taipei, bronze in Athens, brought Yuan Shu Chi and Wu Hui Ju back to the Games.
10 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 one other NOC 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 9 August 216 arrow ranking round Ranking Round Park Sung-hyunYun Ok-HeeJoo Hyun-Jung 2004 OR 10 August 24 arrow match First Round Natalia ValeevaPia Carmen Maria LionettiElena Tonetta 215 OR 10 August 24 arrow match Quarterfinals Bérengère SchuhSophie DodemontVirginie Arnold 218 OR 10 August 24 arrow match Quarterfinals Park Sung-hyunYun Ok-HeeJoo Hyun-Jung 231 OR WR
World rankings entering Olympics
RankTeam 1 2 3 4 5 7 11 13 15 17
Ranking Round
RankTeam1st Half2nd Half10sXsScore1 1011 993 96 36 2004 OR Park Sung-hyun 336 337 34 12 673 Yun Ok-Hee 336 331 30 14 667 Joo Hyun-Jung 339 325 32 10 6642 983 959 56 12 1925 Alison Williamson 325 326 22 3 651 Naomi Folkard 329 322 21 6 651 Charlotte Burgess 312 311 13 3 6233 975 941 55 25 1916 Chen Ling 330 315 18 7 645 Guo Dan 322 314 21 8 636 Zhang Juanjuan 323 312 16 10 6354 952 956 56 21 1908 Małgorzata Ćwieńczek 323 322 27 10 645 Justyna Mospinek 321 322 16 6 643 Iwona Marcinkiewicz 308 312 13 5 6205 946 957 59 18 1903 Bérengère Schuh 323 322 24 9 645 Sophie Dodemont 313 319 13 2 632 Virginie Arnold 310 316 22 7 6266 959 938 60 20 1897 Laishram Bombaya Devi 319 318 22 9 637 Dola Banerjee 319 314 20 8 633 Pranitha Devi 321 306 18 3 6277 949 932 52 18 1881 Nami Hayakawa 326 323 22 9 649 Sayoko Kitabatake 317 299 17 5 616 Yuki Hayashi 306 310 13 4 6168 945 926 52 13 1871 Yuan Shu Chi 334 318 23 7 652 Wu Hui Ju 320 314 19 5 634 Wei Pi-Hsiu 291 294 10 1 5859 926 916 42 15 1842 Natalia Valeeva 316 318 14 2 634 Pia Carmen Maria Lionetti 310 303 18 7 613 Elena Tonetta 300 295 10 6 59510 926 915 50 12 1841 Ana Rendón 319 328 22 6 647 Natalia Sánchez 328 315 20 5 643 Sigrid Romero 279 272 8 1 551
Elimination round
Final standings Rank Team45678910
Final Match Details RankTeam AthletesEnd Arrows Score 24-Match Total 224 Joo Hyun-Jung Yun Ok-Hee Park Sung-hyun 1 9 9 9 27 8 9 10 272 10 10 9 29 9 9 10 283 10 10 8 28 9 9 10 284 9 9 10 28 10 9 10 29 24-Match Total 215 Chen Ling Guo Dan Zhang Juan Juan 1 9 7 10 26 10 8 8 262 9 8 10 27 9 9 9 273 10 9 10 29 8 7 9 244 9 10 9 28 9 10 9 28
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