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Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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The official logo of the Russian Olympic Committee used during the 2020 and 2022 Olympic Games.

Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics was a fun part of the games in Tokyo. The events happened in a park named Yumenoshima Park.

For the first time, there was a mixed team event. In this event, men and women worked together as a team.

The Olympic games were planned for 2020. They were moved to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Archers from many countries came to compete. Archery is a sport where players use a bow and arrow to hit a target far away. It was one of the sports fans enjoyed during the Olympics.

Qualification

There were 128 spots for archers at the 2020 Summer Olympics: 64 for men and 64 for women. Each country could send up to six archers, with three men and three women. Countries that qualified teams could send three archers per team event, and each of those archers could also compete in the individual event. Japan, as the host country, had six reserved spots, and four more spots were decided by a special commission. The rest of the spots were earned through a qualification process.

For the mixed team event, there was no separate qualification. Instead, the top 16 countries with both a man and a woman who scored well in the early ranking rounds would qualify for the mixed team competition.

Competition format

A total of 128 athletes were expected to compete in five archery events at the 2020 Summer Olympics: men's individual, women's individual, men's team, women's team, and mixed team. The mixed team event was new for these games.

All events used recurve archery under World Archery rules at a 70-meter distance. The competition began with a ranking round where each archer shot 72 arrows to determine their seed from 1 to 64. This ranking also decided the seeds for the team events and the 16 pairs for the mixed team event.

Each event used a single-elimination tournament format, with the semi-final losers competing for the bronze medal.

Individual events

All 64 competitors started in the first round, with the draw based on the ranking round results. Matches were scored using the Archery Olympic Round, with five sets of three arrows each. The winner of each set earned two points, and a tie gave each archer one point. If tied 5–5 after five sets, a single arrow shoot-off decided the winner.

Men's and women's team events

The top four teams from the ranking round received a bye to the quarter-finals. The next eight teams, seeded 5th to 12th, competed for the remaining quarter-final spots. The team event used the same set system as the individual event but with six arrows per set (two per team member) and only four sets.

Mixed team event

The top 16 seeded teams from the ranking round competed in a single-elimination bracket. Each set used two arrows per team member (four arrows per team) and had four sets in total.

Schedule

All times for the archery events at the 2020 Summer Olympics were set in Japan Standard Time, which is UTC+9.

DayDateStartFinishEventPhase
Day 0Friday 23 July 20219:0011:00Women's individualRanking round
13:0015:00Men's individualRanking round
Day 1Saturday 24 July 20219:3012:05Mixed teamRound of 16
14:1517:25Mixed teamEliminations Rounds/Medal Rounds
Day 2Sunday 25 July 20219:3011:05Women's teamRound of 16
13:4517:25Women's teamEliminations Rounds/Medal Rounds
Day 3Monday 26 July 20219:3011:05Men's teamRound of 16
13:4517:25Men's teamEliminations Rounds/Medal Rounds
Day 4Tuesday 27 July 20219:3013:25Men's individualRound of 64/Round of 32
Women's individualRound of 64/Round of 32
16:0019:55Men's individualRound of 64/Round of 32
Women's individualRound of 64/Round of 32
Day 5Wednesday 28 July 20219:3013:25Men's individualRound of 64/Round of 32
Women's individualRound of 64/Round of 32
16:0018:40Men's individualRound of 64/Round of 32
Women's individualRound of 64/Round of 32
Day 6Thursday 29 July 20219:3013:25Men's individualRound of 64/Round of 32
Women's individualRound of 64/Round of 32
16:0018:40Men's individualRound of 64/Round of 32
Women's individualRound of 64/Round of 32
Day 7Friday 30 July 20219:3011:15Women's individualRound of 16
14:4517:20Women's individualElimination Rounds/Medal rounds
Day 8Saturday 31 July 20219:3011:15Men's individualRound of 16
14:4517:20Men's individualElimination Rounds/Medal rounds

Participating nations

128 archers from 51 nations took part. They qualified through tournaments like the 2019 World Archery Championships and other events.

Competitors

Main article: List of archers at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Records

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 2020 Summer Olympics and List of Olympic records in archery

EventRoundNameNationScoreDateRecord
Women's individualRanking roundAn San South Korea68023 JulyOR
Women's teamRanking roundAn San, Jang Min-hee, Kang Chae-young South Korea203223 JulyOR
Mixed teamRanking roundKim Je-deok, An San South Korea136824 JulyOR

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Medalists

RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 South Korea4004
2 Turkey1001
3 ROC0202
4 Italy0112
5 Chinese Taipei0101
 Netherlands0101
7 Japan*0022
8 Germany0011
 Mexico0011
Totals (9 entries)55515

Related articles

2020 Summer Olympics
Tokyo
COVID-19 pandemic

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