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Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at Panathinaiko Stadium (Kallimarmaro). The archery Schedule began on 12 August and ended on 21 August . There were four Gold Medal s contested, with individual and team events for men and the same for women. All archery at the Olympics was done from a range of 70 meters. The target's total diameter was 122 cm. An archer had 40 seconds to shoot each arrow. 64 archers of each sex took part in the Olympics, with each National Olympic Committee being able to enter a maximum of three archers. Each archer shot 12 ends, or groups, of 6 arrows per end in the ranking round. The score from that round determined the match-ups in the elimination rounds, with high-ranking archers facing low-ranking archers. There were three rounds of elimination that used six ends of three arrows, narrowing the field of archers to 32, then to 16, then to 8. The three final rounds (quarterfinals, semifinals, and medal matches) each used four ends of three arrows. 13 men's and 15 women's teams took place in the team competition. The teams consisted of the country's three archers from the individual round, and the team's initial ranking was determined by summing the three members' scores in the individual ranking round. Each round of eliminations consisted of each team firing 27 arrows (9 by each archer). __TOC__ QUALIFICATION There were four ways for National Olympic Committees (NOCs) to qualify individual archers for the Olympics in archery. No NOC was allowed to enter more than three archers of each gender. For each gender, the host nation ( Greece ) was guaranteed three spots. The 2003 World Target Competition's top 8 teams (besides the host nation) each received three spots, and the 19 highest ranked archers after the team qualifiers were removed also received spots. 15 of the remaining 18 spots were divided equally among the five Olympic Continents for allocation in continental tournaments. The last three spots in each gender were determined by the Tripartite Commission. Each NOC that received three places for individual archers (i.e., the host nation, the top 8 teams at the World Target Competition, and any other nation that was able to take 3 of the remaining 37 places) was able to have its three archers compete as a team in the team competition. MEDALLISTS MEDAL TABLE BY COUNTRY Korea continued its domination of the sport, winning three of the four Gold Medal s as well as a silver. Marco Galiazzo won the men's individual competition, earning Italy the nation's first gold medal in Olympic archery, blocking Hiroshi Yamamoto 's attempt to win Japan 's first gold medal. Chinese Taipei , which had never before won a medal in archery, won a silver and a bronze. MEN'S INDIVIDUAL Men's individual final standings The three medalists of the 2000 Summer Olympics , Simon Fairweather , Vic Wunderle , and Wietse Van Alten , all competed in 2004. None placed higher than 14th in the ranking round (van Alten) and only Wunderle made it to the quarterfinals. Men's individual ranking round The Korean archers, medal favorites in both men's and women's competition, ranked 1st ( Im Dong-hyun ), 4th ( Park Kyung-mo ), and 5th ( Jang Yong-ho ) in the men's individual ranking round. Im's score of 687 set a new world record for 72 arrows, breaking the previous one set in 1995 by fellow Korean Shim Young-sung . It is not recognized by the International Olympic Committee as an Olympic record, however, as the ranking round took place on 12 August , before the 2004 opening ceremony. The round was held at Dekelia Air Force Base . The bracket setup (with 4th- and 5th-ranked archers facing off in the quarterfinals if undefeated and the winner of that match facing the 1st-ranked archer in the semifinals) meant that the Korean men could do no better than gold and bronze. Marco Galiazzo of Italy in 2nd and Magnus Petersson of Sweden in 3rd rounded out the top five, with Dmytro Hrachov in 6th with the same score as 5th-ranked Jang of Korea. Men's individual round of 64 The first round of elimination, held on 16 August , narrowed the field from 64 archers to 32 in a standard single-elimination bracket. The loser of each match received a final rank between 33 and 64, depending on his score in the round. Each archer fired six ends of three arrows, for a total possible score of 180. Oleksandr Serdyuk of Ukraine had the highest score in the round, with 164. The first upset of the day belonged to 43rd-ranked Vic Wunderle of the United States , who defeated 22nd-ranked Majhi Sawaiyan of India . The United States were on the losing end of an even larger upset, though, when Butch Johnson lost to Ron Van Der Hoff of the Netherlands . The biggest upset occurred when 52nd-ranked Tashi Peljor of Bhutan defeated 13th-ranked Jocelyn De Grandis of France to become the lowest ranked archer to advance. Men's individual round of 32 As in the round of 64, archers fired six ends of three arrows in the second round of elimination. This round, on 18 August , narrowed the field from 32 to 16 archers, with winners advancing and losers receiving a final rank between 17 and 32 depending on their score in the round. Im Dong-hyun of Korea scored the highest in the round, missing the Olympic record by 1 point with a score of 171. 48th-ranked Satyadev Prasad of India was the lowest ranked archer to advance. Vic Wunderle of the United States continued to have success in head-to-head competition, eliminating 11th-ranked Wang Cheng-pang of Chinese Taipei . In an astonishing match, 31st-ranked Laurence Godfrey , Great Britain eked out a victory over 2nd-ranked Magnus Petersson of Sweden . Two other of top ten ranked archers fell when 27th-ranked Xue Haifeng of China defeated 6th-ranked Dmytro Hrachov of Ukraine and 25th-ranked Hasse Pavia Lind lost to Oleksandr Serdyuk . One of the Korean archers, Park Kyung-mo , nearly fell to the Kazakhstan i Stanislav Zabrodskiy when Zabrodskiy tied Park through the first 18 arrows and scored a 10 on the first tie-break. Park also scored a 10, and followed it up with a second 10 which Zabrodskiy could not match. A tie-break was also needed in the match between Viktor Ruban of Ukraine and Wang Cheng-pang of Chinese Taipei , which Ruban won 9-8. Men's individual round of 16 The round of 16 was held on 19 August and followed the same 18-arrow format as the previous two rounds as it narrowed the field to eight quarterfinalists. 19 August Men's individual quarterfinals The first round of 12-arrow matches was the quarterfinals on 19 August . Winners advanced to the semifinals while losers received a final rank between 5 and 8 depending on score in the quarterfinals. The high score of the round was notched by Tim Cuddihy , with 112. In a see-saw battle, Marco Galiazzo took a lead over Vic Wunderle in the third end. In a tense final end, Wunderle closed the gap. Galiazzo, needing an 8 to tie on the last arrow, shot a 9 to advance and end Wunderle's run. In a surprise, both of the remaining Korean archers fell to Hiroshi Yamamoto and Tim Cuddihy in 1-point matchs eliminating them from medal contention. Laurence Godfrey had the most decisive victory of the round, a still-close 2-point victory of Chen Szu Yuan . Men's individual semifinals Yamamoto and Cuddihy both tied the Olympic Record for a 12-arrow match (set by Oh Kyo-moon in 1996 ) by tying their semifinal match at 115 on 19 August . In the tie-breaker, Yamamoto shot first and hit a 10. Cuddihy was unable to match this, shooting a 9 to drop out of gold medal contention. Men's individual bronze medal match The Bronze Medal match was held on 19 August . The winner received the bronze medal while the loser took fourth place. Cuddihy defeated Godfrey in a close match. Men's individual gold medal match The gold medal match on 19 August pitted a first-time-Olympian Italian against a veteran Japan ese archer, with the favored Koreans being conspicuously absent. The match consisted of 12 arrows, with the winner taking gold and the loser receiving a silver medal. With a pair of 10s in the first end, Hiroshi Yamamoto took a quick lead of 1 point over Marco Galiazzo . In the second end, Galiazzo missed perfection by only 1 point, scoring 29 to Yamamoto's 27 to reverse the lead. He hit another pair of 10s in the third end, increasing his lead to 2 points going into the final end. Galiazzo maintained the lead through the final three arrows, winning Italy's first Olympic gold medal in archery. Yamamoto's silver was his second Olympic medal, joining the bronze medal that he won in 1984 . WOMEN'S INDIVIDUAL Women's individual final standings The heavily favored Korean women, who had taken the top three spots in the ranking round, won gold and silver medals as well as setting a new world record for a 72-arrow round. Park Sung Hyun and Lee Sung Jin defeated every opponent they faced until their final match against each other, which Park won for the gold medal. Alison Williamson of Great Britain , who was ranked only 21st after the ranking round, was able to win a number of upsets to make it to the semi-finals. After losing that match, she pulled off one more upset to finish with a bronze medal. Women's individual ranking round In the 72 arrow ranking round, the Korean women dominated the field, taking the top three spots and setting a world record with Park Sung Hyun 's score of 682. The Chinese women also did well, placing 4th, 5th, and 11th. Yuan Shu Chi and Wu Hui Ju of Chinese Taipei finished 6th and 10th. Women's individual round of 64 In the first round of elimination on 15 August , archers competed head-to-head. Each fired six ends of three arrows. Winners advanced to the round of 32, while losers received a final ranking between 33 and 64 based on their score in the round. Sayami Matsushita had the highest score of the round with 165. The first big surprise of the round came when Tshering Chhoden of Bhutan , who had been ranked 54th, defeated 11th-ranked Lin Sang of China . This set Chhoden up for a round of 32 match with 43rd-ranked Reena Kumari of India , who had also won in an upset. One archer from the top ten, Natalia Valeeva of Italy , lost in the first round, to 56th-ranked Jasmin Figueroa of the Philippines . Perhaps the most exciting match of the day was between and Zekiye Keskin Satir also were tied after 18 arrows, with Satir winning on the first tie-breaker 10-7 Women's individual round of 32 Held on 17 August , the second round of elimination, like the first, was a head-to-head competition in which each archer fired six ends of three arrows. Winners advanced to the round of 16, while losers received a final rank between 17 and 32 based on their scores in the round. Yun Mi-Jin of Korea scored 173 in the round, tying the Olympic record she set at the 2000 Summer Olympics . 52nd-ranked Kirstin Jean Lewis pulled off her second upset of the tournament, defeating 20th-ranked Sumangala Sharma to become the lowest ranked archer to advance. Jennifer Nichols , ranked 19th, was the only other archer to win an upset, against 14th-ranked Tetyana Berezhna . 4th-ranked He Ying , however, nearly became the third upset victim and the only top ten archer of the day to fall when Melissa Jennison forced a tie-breaker that He won 9-8. Tshering Chhoden , who had won a major upset in the first round, nearly pulled off another, forcing Reena Kumari into a tie-breaker, which Kumari won. Women's individual round of 16 The third round of elimination, on 18 August , was the final one that used the 18 arrow match. Winners advanced to the quarterfinals, while the losers received final rankings between 9 and 16 depending on their score in the round. Park Sung Hyun had the highest score of the round, as the three Koreans continued to win. The Chinese women were handed another defeat at the hands of Alison Williamson of Great Britain , who at 21st was the only archer not from the top ten to qualify for the quarterfinals. The archers from Chinese Taipei both continued into the quarterfinals, as did Evangelia Psarra of Greece . Women's individual quarterfinals With 8 archers left, the quarterfinal matches on 18 August consisted of each archer firing four ends of three arrows. Winners advanced to the semifinals while the losers received final rankings between 5 and 8. The highest score of the round again was notched by Park Sung Hyun , with 111 points. Alison Williamson continued a great run, defeating 4th-ranked He Ying to advance to the semifinals. He missed the target with two arrows, but would have needed to score perfect 10s on each of those arrows to even tie Williamson and force a tie-breaker. Park Sung Hyun easily defeated Evangelia Psarra , scoring no less than 27 in any end of three arrows. In two matches between Korea n archers and archers from Chinese Taipei , Yun Mi-Jin was the only Korean to lose so far in the women's competition, falling to Yuan Shu Chi . Lee Sung Jin , however, was able to come from behind to defeat Wu Hui Ju to keep Korea in contention for two medals. Women's individual semifinals With only four archers left, the semifinals featured 12-arrow matches. The two winners faced each other in the gold medal match, while the losers of the semifinals faced off for the bronze medal. For the third round in a row, Park Sung Hyun posted the high score, this time with a 110. Lee Sung Jin and Yuan Shu Chi were the first two archers to compete. The first end resulted in a tie at 27. Lee began to pull away in the second end, scoring 26 to Shu's 24. In each of the third and fourth ends, Lee increased his lead, finishing with a safe 6 point victory to advance to the final. Park and Alison Williamson were next. Williamson's surprising run for gold came to a crash, as Park continued to be nearly perfect. Once again, Park did not score lower than 27 in any end of three arrows, dominating each end and advancing to face fellow Korean Lee in the finals. Women's individual bronze medal match The bronze medal match pitted Yuan Shu Chi , who had started with a 6th place in the ranking round, against Alison Williamson , who had started at 21st. Each archer fired four ends of three arrows, with the winner receiving a bronze medal while the loser would go home with a 4th place finish and no medal. The first end was a good one for both archers, with Yuan scoring a 10 and two 9s while Williamson matched the score with two 10s and an 8. Yuan kept up the pace with another 28 in the second end, as Williamson faltered slightly and dropped 3 points behind with a 25. Williamson caught up in the third end, however, with a 27 to Yuan's 25. Yuan took the lead again with the first arrow of the last end, but again Williamson brought it back to a tie with the second arrow. With the score tied and one arrow remaining, Williamson shot an 8 to Yuan's 7, claiming the bronze medal. Women's individual gold medal match The women's gold medal match pitted two Koreans against each other. The two had dominated the competition from the beginning, with Park Sung Hyun placing 1st in the ranking round and Lee Sung Jin placing 2nd. In the first end, Park shot a rare 26, breaking a long string of ends no lower than 27. Lee matched the score, then hit a perfect 30 in the second end. Park returned to form in the second end with a 27, but this still left her 3 points behind. Park continued to build on her scores with a 28 in the third end, bringing the match to 2 points when Lee shot a 27. The fourth end was Park's best of the match while it was Lee's worst, as Park reversed the deficit with a 29-25 final end to take the gold, 110-108. Lee received a silver medal. MEN'S TEAM The men's team competition was the last archery event to be held, on 21 August . The Korean team, after having been kept from winning any individual medals, won by successively larger margins as the rounds went by. Men's team final standings Men's team ranking round The team ranking round consisted merely of summing the scores of the team's three competitors from the individual ranking round. Men's team round of 16 The United States and the Netherlands both pulled off minor upsets in this round, which the Korean, Italian, and Taiwanese teams sat out due to their high rankings. Men's team quarterfinals The Netherlands almost stopped Korea from winning a single match in the team tournament, losing by only 1 point after the 27 arrow match was over. Italy was consigned to that fate, however, by the United States. Men's team semifinals Korea's margin of victory in the semifinals was somewhat larger than in the quarterfinals, though this was more due to a weaker performance by their opponent than anything else as Korea shot 8 points fewer than they had in the previous round. Chinese Taipei narrowly defeated the United States to avoid the upset. Men's team bronze medal match Both teams in the Bronze Medal final shot their lowest score of the competition. The United States, who had outscored Ukraine in each of the previous rounds, was unable to do so in direct competition with the Ukrainians and fell to fourth place while the Ukrainians collected their first archery medal of the year. Men's team gold medal match The final turned out to be the easiest victory for the Korean team in the entire tournament, a 6-point win over Chinese Taipei. WOMEN'S TEAM The women's team archery was held on 20 August , after all of the individual competition had finished but before the men's team competition. Women's team final standings Women's team ranking round The team ranking round consisted merely of summing the scores of the team's three competitors from the individual ranking round. Women's team round of 16 Women's team quarterfinals Women's team semifinals Women's team bronze medal match Women's team gold medal match SCHEDULE
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