Archery at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's individual
The women's individual archery event at the 1976 Summer Olympics was part of the archery programme. The event consisted of a double FITA round. For each round, the archer shot 36 arrows at each of four distances—70, 60, 50, and 30 metres. The highest score for each arrow was 10 points, giving a possible maximum of 2880 points. 16 nations sent 27 athletes to the women's competition in archery.
Luann Ryon of the United States broke both of her countrywoman Doreen Wilber's Olympic records in the event on her way to the second straight gold medal for an American in the women's competition. The Soviet women repeated their bronze medal from 1972 and gained a silver medal as well.
Records
The following new Olympic records were set during this competition.Record | Round | Name | Nationality | Score | OR |
Single FITA round | Second | Luann Ryon | 1282 | OR | |
Double FITA round | Combined | Luann Ryon | 2499 | OR |
Results
Rank | Archer | Nation | Round 1 Score | Round 1 Rank | Round 2 Score | Round 2 Rank | Total Score |
Luann Ryon | 1217 | 1 | 1282 | 1 | 2499 | ||
Valentyna Kovpan | 1182 | 7 | 1278 | 2 | 2460 | ||
Zebiniso Rustamova | 1202 | 3 | 1205 | 7 | 2407 | ||
Jang Sun-yong | 1200 | 5 | 1205 | 6 | 2405 | ||
Lucille Lemay | 1181 | 8 | 1220 | 3 | 2401 | ||
Jadwiga Wilejto | 1200 | 4 | 1195 | 9 | 2395 | ||
Linda Myers | 1180 | 9 | 1213 | 5 | 2393 | ||
Maria Urban | 1216 | 2 | 1160 | 15 | 2376 | ||
Leane Suniar | 1134 | 15 | 1218 | 4 | 2352 | ||
10 | Han Sun-hi | 1163 | 10 | 1184 | 11 | 2347 | |
11 | Anna-Lisa Berglund | 1199 | 6 | 1141 | 17 | 2340 | |
12 | Franca Capetta | 1152 | 13 | 1187 | 10 | 2339 | |
13 | Lena Sjöholm | 1123 | 19 | 1199 | 8 | 2322 | |
14 | Minako Sato | 1128 | 17 | 1180 | 13 | 2308 | |
15 | Carole Toy | 1123 | 20 | 1182 | 12 | 2305 | |
16 | Wanda Allan | 1154 | 12 | 1149 | 16 | 2303 | |
17 | Marie-Christine Ventrillon | 1163 | 11 | 1135 | 19 | 2298 | |
18 | Amornrat Kaewbaidhoon | 1110 | 21 | 1172 | 14 | 2282 | |
19 | Ida Da Poian | 1147 | 14 | 1135 | 20 | 2282 | |
20 | Irena Szydłowska | 1127 | 8 | 1137 | 18 | 2264 | |
21 | Patricia Conway | 1131 | 16 | 1126 | 21 | 2257 | |
22 | Natjav Dariimaa | 1105 | 22 | 1104 | 22 | 2209 | |
23 | Rachael Fenwick | 1095 | 23 | 1104 | 23 | 2199 | |
24 | Gombosure Enkhtaivan | 1062 | 25 | 1094 | 24 | 2156 | |
25 | Maureen Adams | 1076 | 24 | 1038 | 25 | 2114 | |
26 | Kyoko Yamazaki | 1060 | 26 | 1034 | 26 | 2094 | |
27 | Maria Medina | 962 | 27 | 1031 | 27 | 1993 |