Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team

Men's team
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Men's team; at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
	The Olympic Green Archery Field, where the event took place, during the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Venue	Olympic Green Archery Field
Dates	9–11 August
Competitors	36 from 12 nations
Winning score	227
Medalists
	← 2004 2012 →

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

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, United States	1 July 1996

24 arrow match

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
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

Source^[1]

Rank	Team	1st Half	2nd Half	10s	Xs	Score
1	South Korea (KOR)					2015
	Im Dong-Hyun (KOR)	335	335	33	9	670
	Lee Chang-Hwan (KOR)	333	336	30	11	669
	Park Kyung-Mo (KOR)	335	341	36	14	676
2	Ukraine (UKR)					1997
	Markiyan Ivashko (UKR)	329	329	23	6	658
	Viktor Ruban (UKR)	341	337	34	8	678
	Oleksandr Serdyuk (UKR)	331	330	28	11	676
3	Malaysia (MAS)					1993
	Cheng Chu Sian (MAS)	329	331	27	10	660
	Khalmizam Wan Abd Aziz (MAS)	333	341	31	9	674
	Muhammad Marbawi Sulaiman (MAS)	327	332	29	8	659
4	Russia (RUS)					1989
	Andrey Abramov (RUS)	330	330	28	11	660
	Bair Badënov (RUS)	329	329	24	5	658
	Balzhinima Tsyrempilov (RUS)	339	332	38	12	671
5	Great Britain (GBR)					1988
	Laurence Godfrey (GBR)	324	333	22	3	657
	Simon Terry (GBR)	330	340	35	13	670
	Alan Wills (GBR)	335	326	28	9	661
6	Italy (ITA)					1986
	Ilario Di Buò (ITA)	333	337	30	9	670
	Marco Galiazzo (ITA)	329	338	31	12	667
	Mauro Nespoli (ITA)	328	321	23	5	649
7	Chinese Taipei (TPE)					1980
	Chen Szu-Yuan (TPE)	323	331	25	4	667
	Kuo Cheng Wei (TPE)	323	336	24	6	659
	Wang Cheng Pang (TPE)	331	336	32	9	654
8	Poland (POL)					1977
	Rafał Dobrowolski (POL)	330	337	31	8	667
	Piotr Piątek (POL)	327	322	26	7	649
	Jacek Proć (POL)	333	328	31	5	661
9	Australia (AUS)					1977
	Matthew Gray (AUS)	325	329	20	3	654
	Sky Kim (AUS)	333	332	25	4	665
	Michael Naray (AUS)	328	330	29	8	658
10	United States (USA)					1969
	Brady Ellison (USA)	328	336	32	11	664
	Richard Johnson (USA)	326	327	21	5	653
	Victor Wunderle (USA)	318	334	27	8	652
11	Canada (CAN)					1954
	John-David Burnes (CAN)	320	324	22	4	644
	Crispin Duenas (CAN)	333	331	29	8	664
	Jason Lyon (CAN)	322	324	24	7	646
12	China (CHN)					1941
	Jiang Lin (CHN)	320	312	16	2	632
	Li Wenquan (CHN)	319	327	25	10	646
	Xue Haifeng (CHN)	334	329	29	9	663

Elimination round

Source^[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

			6	Italy (ITA)	218
11	Canada (CAN)	217

6	Italy (ITA)	219
						6	Italy (ITA)	223

						2	Ukraine (UKR)	221
7	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	222							Third place

10	United States (USA)	218
			7	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	211				12	China (CHN)	222

			2	Ukraine (UKR)	214				2	Ukraine (UKR)	219

Final Match Details

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
	1	10	10	8	28
	2	10	10	10	30
	2	9	10	10	29
	3	9	9	9	27
	3	9	9	10	28
	4	9	9	9	27
	4	9	10	9	28
Italy	24-Match Total				225
Mauro Nespoli Ilario Di Buò Marco Galiazzo	1	10	10	7	27
	1	10	10	9	29
	2	9	8	10	27
	2	10	9	9	28
	3	10	9	10	29
	3	10	10	10	30
	4	9	10	10	29
	4	9	10	7	26

References

[1] Qualification - Men's Team

[2] Arrow by Arrow - Men's team

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