Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's individual

The men's individual archery event was one of five archery events at the 2020 Summer Olympics. It was held at Yumenoshima Park, in Tokyo, Japan. There were 64 competitors from 40 nations, with nations having either 1 or 3 archers.

Background

This was the 13th consecutive Olympic appearance of the event, which has been held every Games since archery returned to the Olympic program in 1972.

Six of the 8 quarterfinalists from the 2016 Games returned: silver medalist Jean-Charles Valladont of France, bronze medalist Brady Ellison of the United States, fourth-place finisher Sjef van den Berg of the Netherlands, and quarterfinalists Mauro Nespoli of Italy, Taylor Worth of Australia, and Takaharu Furukawa of Japan. Furukawa had been the silver medalist in 2012. Ellison was the world record holder for the 72-arrow ranking round as well as the 2019 World Champion.

Qualification

64 archers qualify for the men's archery events. The 12 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) that qualify for the men's team event (including the host, Japan) enter the 3 team members in the individual event as well. Otherwise, NOCs may qualify a maximum of 1 archer in men's individual. There are quota spots available at various tournaments, including the World Championships, multiple continental events, and a final qualification tournament. There are also two Tripartite Commission invitational spots.

Competition format

As with the other archery events, the men's individual is a recurve archery event, held under the World Archery-approved 70-meter distance and rules. Competition begins with a ranking round, in which each archer shoots 72 arrows. The scores from the ranking round are used to seed the archers into a single-elimination bracket. The knockout matches used the set system introduced in 2012. Each match consists of up to 5 sets of 3 arrows per archer. The archer with the best score in each set wins the set, earning 2 points. If the score is tied, each archer receives 1 point. The first archer to 6 points wins the match. If the match is tied 5–5 after 5 sets, a single tie-breaker arrow is to be used with the closest to center winning.

Records Prior to the competition, the world and Olympic records were as follows.

72 arrow ranking round

Schedule

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

The schedule for the men's individual event covers five separate days of competition.

Date Time Round Friday, 23 July 2021 13:00 Ranking round Tuesday, 27 July 2021Wednesday, 28 July 2021Thursday, 29 July 2021 9:3016:00 1/32 finals1/16 finals Saturday, 31 July 2021 9:3014:4515:4516:3016:44 1/8 finalsQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsBronze medal matchGold medal match

Results

Ranking round

The ranking round was held on 23 July 2021.

RankArcherNation10sScore 1 Kim Je-deok 43 15 688 2 Brady Ellison 41 14 682 3 Oh Jin-hyek 39 18 681 4 Kim Woo-jin 37 23 680 5 Hiroki Muto 37 12 678 6 Steve Wijler 37 9 675 7 Wei Shaoxuan 35 6 674 8 Sjef van den Berg 30 15 670 9 Denis Gankin 34 10 669 10 Mete Gazoz 32 9 669 11 Li Jialun 31 9 669 12 Tang Chih-chun 31 8 668 13 Wang Dapeng 28 10 668 14 Gijs Broeksma 29 11 667 15 Riau Ega Agatha 29 8 666 16 Crispin Duenas 27 7 665 17 Ruman Shana 28 10 662 18 Andrés Aguilar 27 12 662 19 Luis Álvarez 25 13 662 20 Khairul Anuar Mohamad 28 12 661 21 Wei Chun-heng 26 8 661 22 Yuki Kawata 26 6 661 23 Nicholas D'Amour 30 12 660 24 Mauro Nespoli 28 10 658 25 Patrick Huston 28 9 658 26 Alviyanto Prastyadi 26 9 658 27 Ilfat Abdullin 27 9 657 28 Oleksii Hunbin 27 8 656 29 Jack Williams 26 10 656 30 Deng Yu-cheng 26 9 656 31 Pravin Jadhav 22 5 656 32 Arif Dwi Pangestu 26 10 655 33 Florian Unruh 23 6 654 34 Galsan Bazarzhapov 24 8 653 35 Atanu Das 24 7 653 36 Pierre Plihon 23 7 653 37 Tarundeep Rai 26 6 652 38 James Woodgate 21 11 652 39 Taylor Worth 23 8 651 40 Marcus Vinicius D'Almeida 21 9 651 41 Žiga Ravnikar 21 8 651 42 Ryan Tyack 25 8 650 43 Jarno De Smedt 23 7 650 44 Daniel Castro 21 6 650 45 Antti Vikström 26 6 649 46 Takaharu Furukawa 23 5 649 47 Jacob Wukie 22 5 649 48 Tom Hall 18 7 649 49 Dan Olaru 25 6 648 50 David Barnes 21 11 648 51 Thomas Chirault 21 7 648 52 Sanzhar Mussayev 22 12 647 53 Nguyễn Hoàng Phi Vũ 20 5 647 54 Otgonbold Baatarkhuyag 22 6 646 55 Jeff Henckels 21 7 646 56 Youssof Tolba 28 9 645 57 Jean-Charles Valladont 21 8 640 58 Daniel Pineda 22 7 639 59 Sławomir Napłoszek 19 6 637 60 Itay Shanny 19 8 635 61 Mátyás László Balogh 15 5 632 62 Mohamed Hammed 16 4 631 63 Milad Vaziri 18 4 629 64 Areneo David 13 2 582

Competition bracket Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Finals

References