Host City: London, Great Britain
Date Started: July 27, 2012
Date Finished: August 3, 2012
Events: 4

Participants: 128 (64 men and 64 women) from 55 countries
Youngest Participant:  Dan Olaru (15 years, 259 days)
Oldest Participant:  Karen Hultzer (46 years, 315 days)
Most Medals (Athlete):  Oh Jin-Hyek and  Ki Bo-Bae (2 medals)
Most Medals (Country): South Korea (4 medals)

The archery events at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held over an eight-day period from 27 July to 3 August. Four events took place, all being staged at Lord's Cricket Ground in front of temporary stands built to accommodate up to 6,500 spectators.

South Korea was the most successful nation, topping the medal table with three golds and four medals in total.

Competition format

A total of 128 athletes competed across the four events: the men's individual, women's individual, men's team, and women's team.

All four events were recurve archery events, held under the FITA-approved 70-metre distance and rules. The competition started with an initial ranking round involving all 64 archers of each gender. Each archer shot a total of 72 arrows to be seeded from 1–64 according to their score.

The ranking round was also used to seed the teams from 1 to 12, by aggregating the individual scores for the members of each team.

Each event was then played in a single-elimination tournament format, except for the semi-final losers, who played-off to decide the bronze medal winner.

Individual events

In the individual events, all 64 competitors entered the competition at the first round, the round of 64. The draw was seeded according to the result of the ranking round so the first seed shot against the 64th seed in the first round.

Each match was the best-of-five sets, with three arrows per set. The winner of each set received two points, and if the scores in the set were tied then each archer received one point. If at the end of five sets the score was tied at 5–5, a single arrow shoot-off would be held and the closest to the centre would be declared the winner.

Team events

In the team events, the top four seeded teams from the ranking round received a bye to the quarter-final. The remaining eight teams, seeded 5th to 12th, competed for the remaining four places in the quarter-finals.

Each match consisted of 24 arrows from each team (eight from each team member) and the team with the highest score progressed. In the event of scores being tied, a three-arrow shoot-off would take place.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00).

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of six competitors, three per gender. NOCs that qualified teams for a particular gender were able to send a three-member team to the team event and also have each member compete in the individual event. There were 12 team spots for each gender, thus qualifying 36 individuals through team qualification. All other NOCs may earn a maximum of one quota place per gender for the individual events.

Six places were reserved for Great Britain as the host nation, and a further six were decided by the Tripartite Commission. The remaining 116 places were then allocated through a qualification process, in which archers earned quota places for their respective NOCs, though not necessarily for themselves.

To be eligible to participate in the Olympic Games after the NOC has obtained a quota place, all archers must have achieved the following minimum qualification score (MQS):

• Men: FITA round of 1230 or 70m round of 625
• Women: FITA round of 1230 or 70m round of 600

The MQS must have been achieved between 2 July 2011 (starting at the 2011 World Outdoor Archery Championships) and 1 July 2012 at a registered FITA event.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual	Oh Jin-hyek  South Korea	Takaharu Furukawa  Japan	Dai Xiaoxiang  China
Men's team	Italy (ITA) Michele Frangilli Marco Galiazzo Mauro Nespoli	United States (USA) Brady Ellison Jake Kaminski Jacob Wukie	South Korea (KOR) Im Dong-hyun Kim Bub-min Oh Jin-hyek

Medal table (both men & women)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	3	0	1	4
2	Italy	1	0	0	1
3	China	0	1	1	2
	Japan	0	1	1	2
	Mexico	0	1	1	2
6	United States	0	1	0	1
Totals (6 nations)		4	4	4	12

Men's Individual

 New order flourishes in the Individual Competition

The final event of the Olympic Archery competition ended with a series of firsts and medals for Korea, Japan and China. Top of the pile was Jin Hyek Oh (KOR), a 30- year-old lover of soft drinks and the elder statesman of the team. He became the first Korean to win the Individual Competition with a 7–1 victory over Takaharu Furukawa, who emulated the best-ever performance by a Japanese archer in this event. Oh, who adapted well to the variable winds that blew at the final, shot 28s and 29s and secured the gold medal with a 10.

The bronze medal match proved more competitive, with Xiaoxiang Dai scoring a shootoff win with a dead-centre 10 against outsider Rick Van der Ven of the Netherlands to earn China its first individual medal in men’s Archery.

The men's individual archery competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 27 July to 3 August at Lord's Cricket Ground.

Oh Jin-Hyek of South Korea won the gold medal, followed by Takaharu Furukawa from Japan with silver and Dai Xiaoxiang, representing China, with the bronze.

Competition format

The competitors were ranked 1st to 64th based on their ranking round results and seeded into a head-to-head knock-out bracket based on this ranking.^[2] The 2012 Olympics introduced a new format for the knockout rounds. Each head-to-head match was a best-of-five sets match where each competitor shoots three arrows per set. Competitors received two points for winning the set and one point for a draw with the first competitor to reach six points winning the match. The winner advanced to the next round while the loser was eliminated from the competition.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. Im Dong-Hyun broke both records.

• 72 arrow ranking round

World record	Im Dong-Hyun (KOR)	696	Antalya, Turkey	2 May 2012
Olympic record	Michele Frangilli (ITA)	684	Atlanta, United States	28 July 1996

Finals

	Semi-finals										Finals
	16	Rick van der Ven (NED)	1	2	0	2	0	0
	5	Takaharu Furukawa (JPN)	1	0	2	0	2	1
											5	Takaharu Furukawa (JPN)	0	0	1	0
											3	Oh Jin-Hyek (KOR)	2	2	1	2
	3	Oh Jin-Hyek (KOR)	0	2	1	0	2	1
	7	Dai Xiaoxiang (CHN)	2	0	1	2	0	0			Third place
											16	Rick van der Ven (NED)	2	2	0	0	1	0
											7	Dai Xiaoxiang (CHN)	0	0	2	2	1	1

Competition bracket

Section 1

	Round of 64										Round of 32										Round of 16										Quarter-finals
	1	D-H Im (KOR)	2	2	2
	64	E Guidi (SMR)	0	0	0
											1	D-H Im (KOR)	1	2	2	0	1
											33	C-p Wang (TPE)	1	0	0	2	1
	32	DF Pineda (COL)	0	0	0
	33	C-p Wang (TPE)	2	2	2
																					1	D-H Im (KOR)	0	1	0	0
																					16	R van der Ven (NED)	2	1	2	2
	16	R van der Ven (NED)	2	1	2	1
	49	J Henckels (LUX)	0	1	0	1
											16	R van der Ven (NED)	2	1	2	2
											17	D Gankin (KAZ)	0	1	0	0
	17	D Gankin (KAZ)	0	2	2	0	2
	48	H Kamaruddin (MAS)	2	0	0	2	0
																															16	R van der Ven (NED)	2	2	2
																															40	C-w Kuo (TPE)	0	0	0
	8	C Duenas (CAN)	2	0	0	0
	57	A El-Nemr (EGY)	0	2	2	2
											57	A El-Nemr (EGY)	2	0	0	0
											40	C-w Kuo (TPE)	0	2	2	2
	25	E Malavé (VEN)	2	0	0	1	2	0
	40	C-w Kuo (TPE)	0	2	2	1	0	1
																					40	C-w Kuo (TPE)	2	2	2
																					24	M Ivashko (UKR)	0	0	0
	9	R Girouille (FRA)	0	2	0	1	2	0
	56	NM Aung (MYA)	2	0	2	1	0	1
											56	NM Aung (MYA)	0	1	0	0
											24	M Ivashko (UKR)	2	1	2	2
	24	M Ivashko (UKR)	0	2	1	2	1
	41	E Cuesta (ESP)	2	0	1	0	1

Section 2

	Round of 64										Round of 32										Round of 16										Quarter-finals
	4	L Godfrey (GBR)	2	2	2
	61	M Milon (BAN)	0	0	0
											4	L Godfrey (GBR)	2	1	2	2
											29	JR Serrano (MEX)	0	1	0	0
	29	JR Serrano (MEX)	2	2	0	2
	36	M Galiazzo (ITA)	0	0	2	0
																					4	L Godfrey (GBR)	0	1	2	2	0	0
																					20	K Mohamad (MAS)	2	1	0	0	2	1
	13	Y Xing (CHN)	2	2	2
	52	C Mayr (GER)	0	0	0
											13	Y Xing (CHN)	2	1	0	0	2	0
											20	K Mohamad (MAS)	0	1	2	2	0	1
	20	K Mohamad (MAS)	2	0	0	2	2
	45	C Sian (MAS)	0	2	2	0	0
																															20	K Mohamad (MAS)	0	0	2	0
																															5	T Furukawa (JPN)	2	2	0	2
	5	T Furukawa (JPN)	0	0	2	2	2
	60	K Lee (HKG)	2	2	0	0	0
											5	T Furukawa (JPN)	0	2	0	2	2
											28	D Hrachov (UKR)	2	0	2	0	0
	28	D Hrachov (UKR)	2	2	0	1	2
	37	M Frangilli (ITA)	0	0	2	1	0
																					5	T Furukawa (JPN)	2	2	0	2
																					21	B Nesteng (NOR)	0	0	2	0
	12	J Wukie (USA)	2	2	2
	53	J Talukdar (IND)	0	0	0
											12	J Wukie (USA)	2	0	0	0
											21	B Nesteng (NOR)	0	2	2	2
	21	B Nesteng (NOR)	0	1	2	0	2	1
	44	H Kikuchi (JPN)	2	1	0	2	0	0

Section 3

	Round of 64										Round of 32										Round of 16										Quarter-finals
	3	J-H Oh (KOR)	1	2	0	2	2
	62	A Müller (SUI)	1	0	2	0	0
											3	J-H Oh (KOR)	1	2	0	2	1
											30	L Álvarez (MEX)	1	0	2	0	1
	30	L Álvarez (MEX)	2	2	2
	35	Y Hristov (BUL)	0	0	0
																					3	J-H Oh (KOR)	2	2	2
																					14	R Dobrowolski (POL)	0	0	0
	19	J Gantögs (MGL)	0	0	0
	46	R Banerjee (IND)	2	2	2
											46	R Banerjee (IND)	1	0	2	0	0
											14	R Dobrowolski (POL)	1	2	0	2	2
	14	R Dobrowolski (POL)	0	2	2	1	2
	51	D Xavier (BRA)	2	0	0	1	0
																															3	J-H Oh (KOR)	2	1	2	2
																															43	V Ruban (UKR)	0	1	0	0
	6	G Prevost (FRA)	0	2	1	1	2
	59	P Kouassi (CIV)	2	0	1	1	0
											6	G Prevost (FRA)	0	2	2	1	2
											27	T Faucheron (FRA)	2	0	0	1	0
	27	T Faucheron (FRA)	2	2	2
	38	W Thamwong (THA)	0	0	0
																					6	G Prevost (FRA)	0	2	0	2	0
																					43	V Ruban (UKR)	2	0	2	0	2
	22	Z Liu (CHN)	0	1	1	1	2	0
	43	V Ruban (UKR)	2	1	1	1	0	1
											43	V Ruban (UKR)	2	2	2
											54	Y-C Chen (TPE)	0	0	0
	11	M Nespoli (ITA)	0	0	2	0
	54	Y-C Chen (TPE)	2	2	0	2

Section 4

	Round of 64										Round of 32										Round of 16										Quarter-finals
	7	X Dai (CHN)	2	2	2
	58	K Štrajhar (SLO)	0	0	0
											7	X Dai (CHN)	2	2	2
											26	E Vélez (MEX)	0	0	0
	26	E Vélez (MEX)	1	2	2	2
	39	M Vaziri (IRI)	1	0	0	0
																					7	X Dai (CHN)	0	2	1	0	2	1
																					23	T Worth (AUS)	2	0	1	2	0	0
	23	T Worth (AUS)	2	0	2	1	0	1
	42	A Wills (GBR)	0	2	0	1	2	0
											23	T Worth (AUS)	1	2	2	2
											10	B Ellison (USA)	1	0	0	0
	10	B Ellison (USA)	2	2	1	2
	55	M Javier (PHI)	0	0	1	0
																															7	X Dai (CHN)	2	1	0	0	2	1
																															2	B-M Kim (KOR)	0	1	2	2	0	0
	15	Y Ishizu (JPN)	0	1	0	0
	50	S Terry (GBR)	2	1	2	2
											50	S Terry (GBR)	0	0	1	0
											47	D Olaru (MDA)	2	2	1	2
	18	J Kaminski (USA)	2	2	1	0	0	0
	47	D Olaru (MDA)	0	0	1	2	2	1
																					47	D Olaru (MDA)	0	0	1	0
																					2	B-M Kim (KOR)	2	2	1	2
	31	T Rai (IND)	0	1	0	2	2	1
	34	JC Stevens (CUB)	2	1	2	0	0	0
											31	T Rai (IND)	0	0	2	0
											2	B-M Kim (KOR)	2	2	0	2
	2	B-M Kim (KOR)	2	2	0	0	2
	63	R Elder (FIJ)	0	0	2	2	0

Ranking round

Rank	Archer	Nation	Score	10s	Xs
1	Im Dong-Hyun	South Korea	699 (WR)	51	22
2	Kim Bub-Min	South Korea	698	50	26
3	Oh Jin-Hyek	South Korea	690	45	27
4	Larry Godfrey	Great Britain	680	36	9
5	Takaharu Furukawa	Japan	679	37	10
6	Gaël Prevost	France	679	32	13
7	Dai Xiaoxiang	China	678	35	12
8	Crispin Duenas	Canada	678	35	11
9	Romain Girouille	France	677	34	12
10	Brady Ellison	United States	676	33	16
11	Mauro Nespoli	Italy	674	33	14
12	Jacob Wukie	United States	673	33	11
13	Xing Yu	China	673	32	13
14	Rafał Dobrowolski	Poland	672	33	13
15	Yu Ishizu	Japan	671	35	8
16	Rick van der Ven	Netherlands	671	27	14
17	Denis Gankin	Kazakhstan	670	34	12
18	Jake Kaminski	United States	670	33	9
19	Jantsangiin Gantögs	Mongolia	669	31	14
20	Khairul Anuar Mohamad	Malaysia	669	30	10
21	Bård Nesteng	Norway	669	27	6
22	Liu Zhaowu	China	668	33	12
23	Taylor Worth	Australia	668	28	12
24	Markiyan Ivashko	Ukraine	667	34	12
25	Elías Malavé	Venezuela	666	33	9
26	Eduardo Vélez	Mexico	665	31	13
27	Thomas Faucheron	France	665	29	11
28	Dmytro Hrachov	Ukraine	665	28	11
29	Juan René Serrano	Mexico	665	28	7
30	Luis Álvarez	Mexico	665	26	8
31	Tarundeep Rai	India	664	29	12
32	Daniel Pineda	Colombia	664	29	10
33	Wang Cheng-pang	Chinese Taipei	663	31	12
34	Juan Carlos Stevens	Cuba	663	28	7
35	Yavor Hristov	Bulgaria	663	26	10
36	Marco Galiazzo	Italy	662	28	8
36	Michele Frangilli	Italy	662	28	8
38	Witthaya Thamwong	Thailand	662	26	7
39	Milad Vaziri	Iran	662	23	6
40	Kuo Cheng-wei	Chinese Taipei	660	31	10
41	Elías Cuesta	Spain	660	29	5
42	Alan Wills	Great Britain	660	29	3
43	Viktor Ruban	Ukraine	660	26	10
44	Hideki Kikuchi	Japan	659	27	10
45	Cheng Chu Sian	Malaysia	658	26	7
46	Rahul Banerjee	India	655	20	8
47	Dan Olaru	Moldova	654	27	3
48	Haziq Kamaruddin	Malaysia	654	23	11
49	Jeff Henckels	Luxembourg	654	22	10
50	Simon Terry	Great Britain	654	21	8
51	Daniel Xavier	Brazil	653	25	7
52	Camilo Mayr	Germany	653	24	9
53	Jayanta Talukdar	India	650	22	6
54	Chen Yu-Cheng	Chinese Taipei	649	23	7
55	Mark Javier	Philippines	649	22	7
56	Nay Myo Aung	Myanmar	646	19	7
57	Ahmed El-Nemr	Egypt	644	21	6
58	Klemen Štrajhar	Slovenia	639	21	8
59	Philippe Kouassi	Ivory Coast	638	19	7
60	Lee Kar Wai	Hong Kong	637	20	7
61	Mohammed Milon	Bangladesh	636	21	7
62	Axel Müller	Switzerland	633	18	5
63	Rob Elder	Fiji	615	12	4
64	Emanuele Guidi	San Marino	589	10	5

Men's Team

 Italy’s golden arrow secures Team Competition victory

An inner gold finish from Michele Frangilli won the gold medal for Italy in the Team Competition at the magnificent Lord’s Cricket Ground. The Italian kept his nerve to snatch victory over the USA with Archery’s equivalent of one run in the last over. Italy, silver medallists at Beijing 2008, came into the London 2012 Games ranked 9th in the world, but beat the USA, ranked world number one, 219–218. Frangilli, who has written a book about archery techniques and who once shot a strawberry off a cheesecake in a New York promotional event, confessed that he closed his mind to both the blustery weather conditions and the noise of the crowd. ‘I have been chasing this medal for 16 years,’ he declared, ‘and the arrow at the 10, that was a dream.’ The young USA team had knocked out the favourites and defending champions Korea in the
semi-final. This major shock saw the Koreans fail to make the Team Competition final for the first time since Barcelona 1992, despite breaking two world records in the ranking round and equalling their world record score of 227, set at Beijing 2008, in their quarter-final match against Ukraine. Korea eventually beat Mexico to win the bronze medal by 224–219.

The men's team archery competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 27–28 July at Lord's Cricket Ground.

Italy won the gold medal with Michele Frangilli, Marco Galiazzo and Mauro Nespoli. The United States won silver and South Korea won bronze.

Competition format

The teams were ranked 1st to 12th based on the three team members' ranking round results and this was used to seed them into a head-to-head knockout bracket.^[2] Each member of the team shot eight arrows in a match (for a total of 24 arrows per team) and the team with the highest total won the match. The winner advanced to the next round while the loser was eliminated from the competition.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. The ranking round records were broken during the 2012 competition by the South Korean team.

• 216 arrow ranking round

World record	South Korea Im Dong-Hyun, Kim Bub-Min, Oh Jin-Hyek	2069	Antalya, Turkey	2 May 2012
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 Bub-Min, Oh Jin-Hyek	233	London, United Kingdom	4 October 2011
Olympic record	South Korea Im Dong-Hyun, Lee Chang-hwan, Park Kyung-Mo	227	Beijing, China	11 August 2008

Competition bracket

	First round					Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Final
						1	South Korea (KOR)	227
						9	Ukraine (UKR)	220
	8	Great Britain (GBR)	212
	9	Ukraine (UKR)	223
											1	South Korea (KOR)	219
										4	United States (USA)	224
	5	Japan (JPN)	214(29)
	12	India (IND)	214(27)
						5	Japan (JPN)	219
						4	United States (USA)	220
																4	United States (USA)	218
																6	Italy (ITA)	219
						3	China (CHN)	216							Third place
						6	Italy (ITA)	220
	11	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	206													1	South Korea (KOR)	224
	6	Italy (ITA)	216													7	Mexico (MEX)	219
											6	Italy (ITA)	217
										7	Mexico (MEX)	215
	7	Mexico (MEX)	216
	10	Malaysia (MAS)	211
						7	Mexico (MEX)	220
						2	France (FRA)	212