Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team

Men's team archery
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
VenueOlympic Green Archery Field
DatesAugust 9–11
Competitors36 from 12 nations
Winning score227
Medalists
   South Korea
   Italy
   China
Archery at the
2008 Summer Olympics
Individual   men   women
Team   men   women

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.

World record  South Korea
Im Dong-Hyun, Park Kyung-Mo, Lee Chang-hwan 		2039 Antalya, Turkey 28 May 2008
Olympic record  South Korea
Jang Yong-Ho, Kim Bo-Ram, Oh Kyo-Moon 		2031 Atlanta, USA 1 July 1996
World record  South Korea
Im Dong-Hyun, Kim Yeon-Chul, Lee Chang-hwan 		231 Leipzig, Germany 14 July 2008
Olympic record New record classification – – –

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 Dobrowolski
Piotr Piątek
Jacek Proć 		Poland 223 OR
11 August 24 arrow match Quarterfinal Im Dong-Hyun
Lee Chang-Hwan
Park Kyung-Mo 		South Korea 224 OR
11 August 24 arrow match Final Im Dong-Hyun
Lee Chang-Hwan
Park Kyung-Mo 		South Korea 227 OR

World Rankings Entering Olympics

Rank Team
1  Chinese Taipei (TPE)
2  Italy (ITA)
3  South Korea (KOR)
4  Malaysia (MAS)
7  Russia (RUS)
8  Great Britain (GBR)
9  United States (USA)
12 Australia (AUS)
14 Poland (POL)
15 China (CHN)
17  Ukraine (UKR)
20  Canada (CAN)

Ranking Round [1]

Rank Team 1st Half 2nd Half 10s Xs Score
1  South Korea (KOR) 2015
 Im Dong-Hyun (KOR) 335335339670
 Lee Chang-Hwan (KOR) 3333363011669
 Park Kyung-Mo (KOR) 3353413614676
2  Ukraine (UKR) 1997
 Markiyan Ivashko (UKR) 329329236658
 Viktor Ruban (UKR) 341337348678
 Oleksandr Serdyuk (UKR) 3313302811676
3  Malaysia (MAS) 1993
 Cheng Chu Sian (MAS) 3293312710 660
 Khalmizam Wan Abd Aziz (MAS) 333341319674
 Muhammad Marbawi Sulaiman (MAS) 327332 29 8659
4  Russia (RUS) 1989
 Andrey Abramov (RUS) 3303302811660
 Bair Badënov (RUS) 329329245658
 Balzhinima Tsyrempilov (RUS) 3393323812671
5  Great Britain (GBR) 1988
 Laurence Godfrey (GBR) 324333223657
 Simon Terry (GBR) 3303403513670
 Alan Wills (GBR) 335326289661
6  Italy (ITA) 1986
 Ilario Di Buò (ITA) 333337309670
 Marco Galiazzo (ITA) 3293383112667
 Mauro Nespoli (ITA) 328321235649
7  Chinese Taipei (TPE) 1980
 Chen Szu-Yuan (TPE) 323331254667
 Kuo Cheng Wei (TPE) 323336246659
 Wang Cheng Pang (TPE)331336329654
8  Poland (POL) 1977
 Rafał Dobrowolski (POL) 33033731 8 667
 Piotr Piątek (POL) 327 322 26 7649
 Jacek Proć (POL) 333 328 31 5661
9  Australia (AUS) 1977
 Matthew Gray (AUS) 325329 20 3 654
 Sky Kim (AUS) 333332 25 4 665
 Michael Naray (AUS) 328330 29 8 658
10  United States (USA) 1969
 Brady Ellison (USA) 328336 32 11 664
 Richard Johnson (USA) 326327 215 653
 Victor Wunderle (USA) 318 334 278 652
11  Canada (CAN) 1954
 John-David Burnes (CAN) 320 324 22 4 644
 Crispin Duenas (CAN) 333 331 298 664
 Jay Lyon (CAN) 322324 247 646
12  China (CHN) 1941
 Jiang Lin (CHN) 320 31216 2 632
 Li Wenquan (CHN) 319 327 2510 646
 Xue Haifeng (CHN) 334 329 299 663

Elimination Round [2]

  First Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
                                     
   
  1   South Korea (KOR) 224  
    8   Poland (POL) 222  
8   Poland (POL) 223
9   Australia (AUS) 218  
  1   South Korea (KOR) 221  
  12   China (CHN) 218  
5   Great Britain (GBR) 210  
12   China (CHN) 214  
  12   China (CHN) 217
    4   Russia (RUS) 209  
 
   
  1   South Korea (KOR) 227
  6   Italy (ITA) 225
   
   
  3   Malaysia (MAS) 213 Third place
    6   Italy (ITA) 218  
11   Canada (CAN) 217 12   China (CHN) 222
6   Italy (ITA) 219   2   Ukraine (UKR) 219
  6   Italy (ITA) 223
  2   Ukraine (UKR) 221  
7   Chinese Taipei (TPE) 222  
10   United States (USA) 218  
  7   Chinese Taipei (TPE) 211
    2   Ukraine (UKR) 214  
 

Final Match Details

Rank Team Athletes End Arrows Score
South Korea 24-Match Total 227
       Lee Chang-Hwan
       Im Dong-Hyun
       Park Kyung-Mo







 1 10 10 10 30
10 10 8 28
2 10 10 10 30
9 10 10 29
3 9 9 9 27
9 9 10 28
4 9 9 9 27
9 10 9 28
Italy 24-Match Total 225
       Mauro Nespoli
       Ilario Di Buò
       Marco Galiazzo







 1 10 10 7 27
10 10 9 29
2 9 8 10 27
10 9 9 28
3 10 9 10 29
10 10 10 30
4 9 10 10 29
9 10 7 26

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