Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team


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. 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.
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
DateRecordRoundNameNationalityScoreORWR
11 August24 arrow matchFirst RoundRafał Dobrowolski
Piotr Piątek
Jacek Proć
223OR
11 August24 arrow matchQuarterfinalIm Dong-Hyun
Lee Chang-Hwan
Park Kyung-Mo
224OR
11 August24 arrow matchFinalIm Dong-Hyun
Lee Chang-Hwan
Park Kyung-Mo
227OR

World Rankings Entering Olympics

RankTeam
1
2
3
4
7
8
9
12
14
15
17
20

Ranking Round

Source
RankTeam1st Half2nd Half10sXsScore
12015
1335335339670
13333363011669
13353413614676
21997
2329329236658
2341337348678
23313302811676
31993
33293312710660
3333341319674
3327332298659
41989
43303302811660
4329329245658
43393323812671
51988
5324333223657
53303403513670
5335326289661
61986
6333337309670
63293383112667
6328321235649
71980
7323331254667
7323336246659
7331336329654
81977
8330337318667
8327322267649
8333328315661
91977
9325329203654
9333332254665
9328330298658
101969
103283363211664
10326327215653
10318334278652
111954
11320324224644
11333331298664
11322324247646
121941
12320312162632
123193272510646
12334329299663

Elimination Round

Source

Final Match Details