Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's individual


The men's individual 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 9 August. First and second elimination rounds took place on 13 August, and eights, quarterfinal, semifinals and medals matches were staged on 15 August. All archery was done at a range of 70 metres, with targets 1.22 metres in diameter.
Marco Galiazzo was at Beijing to defend his Olympic Gold Medal won on Athens but failed to qualify for the finals after being defeated in the Round of 32. Japanese Hiroshi Yamamoto, silver at the last Games, and Australian Tim Cuddihy did not participate at the Chinese Games.
64 archers from 37 countries qualified for the event at the Beijing Olympics. The 44th Outdoor Archery World championship, held in Leipzig, Germany, plus 5 continental qualification tournaments and a Final World Qualification Tournament selected 61 slots for the event, along with 3 Tripartite Commission Invitations.
The competition began with the ranking round. Each archer fired 72 arrows. This round was done entirely to seed the elimination brackets; all archers moved on to them. The elimination rounds used a single-elimination tournament, with fixed brackets based on the ranking round seeding. In each round of elimination, the two archers in each match fired 12 arrows; the archer with the higher score advanced to the next round while the other archer was eliminated. Unlike in previous years, in which the first three rounds used an 18-arrow match, the 12-arrow match was used throughout the 2008 tournament.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time
DateTimeRound
Saturday, 9 August 200815:30-17:30Ranking Round
Wednesday, 13 August 200810:00-12:35
15:30-18:05		 Round of 64, Round of 32
Friday, 15 August 200810:30-12:15 Round of 16
Friday, 15 August 200816:00-16:52 Quarterfinals
Friday, 15 August 200816:52-17:20 Semifinals
Friday, 15 August 200817:21-17:50 Finals

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
DateRecordRoundNameNationalityScoreORWR
13 August12 arrow matchRound of 64Jacek Proc116OR
13 August12 arrow matchRound of 32Lee Chang-hwan117OR

Results

Ranking Round

RankArcherNationScore
1Juan René Serrano679
2Mangal Singh Champia678
3Viktor Ruban678
4Park Kyung-Mo676
5Wan Kalmizam674
6Balzhinima Tsyrempilov671
7Simon Terry670
8Im Dong-Hyun670
9Ilario Di Buò670
10Lee Chang-Hwan669
11Wang Cheng Pang667
12Marco Galiazzo667
13Rafał Dobrowolski667
14Sky Kim665
15Brady Ellison664
16Crispin Duenas664
17Takaharu Furukawa663
18Xue Haifeng663
19Jacek Proć661
20Oleksandr Serdyuk661
21Alan Wills661
22Ryuichi Moriya661
23Yusuf Ergin660
24Eduardo Vélez660
25Andrey Abramov660
26Cheng Chu Sian660
27Muhammad Marbawi659
28Juan Carlos Stevens659
29Kuo Cheng Wei659
30Michael Naray658
31Bair Badënov658
32Markiyan Ivashko658
33Daniel Morillo657
34Laurence Godfrey657
35Jean-Charles Valladont656
36Mark Javier654
37Calvin Hartley654
38Chen Szu Yuan654
39Matthew Gray654
40Richard Johnson653
41Vic Wunderle652
42Nuno Pombo650
43Piotr Piątek649
44Mauro Nespoli649
45Jens Pieper648
46Li Wenquan646
47Jason Lyon646
48Maksim Kunda646
49Magnus Petersson646
50John David Burnes644
51Romain Girouille641
52Nay Myo Aung637
53Niels Dall634
54Tashi Peljor632
55Jiang Lin632
56Martin Bulíř629
57Ali Al-Yazidi627
58Matti Hatava619
59Daniel Pavlov618
60Alexandru Bodnar614
61Luiz Trainini610
62Maged Youssef605
63Hojjatollah Vaezi604
64Joseph Muaausa563

Competition bracket

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Finals