Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's team

The Men's team at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the archery programme were held at the Panathinaiko Stadium.

Men's team
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Panathinaiko Stadium, where the event was held
VenuePanathinaiko Stadium
Date21 August
Competitors39 from 13 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Im Dong-hyun
Jang Yong-ho
Park Kyung-mo
 South Korea
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Chen Szu-yuan
Liu Ming-huang
Wang Cheng-pang
 Chinese Taipei
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Dmytro Hrachov
Viktor Ruban
Oleksandr Serdyuk
 Ukraine
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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.

Ranking round edit

The team ranking round consisted merely of summing the scores of the team's three competitors from the individual ranking round.

Seed Team Score
1 2 3 Total
1   South Korea (KOR) 687 672 671 2030
2   Chinese Taipei (TPE) 663 663 659 1985
3   Italy (ITA) 672 659 654 1985
4   Ukraine (UKR) 671 660 654 1985
5   Japan (JPN) 664 660 646 1970
6   Sweden (SWE) 673 653 637 1963
7   Australia (AUS) 663 658 641 1962
8   Mexico (MEX) 651 646 645 1942
9   Netherlands (NED) 661 646 633 1940
10   India (IND) 657 647 634 1938
11   United States (USA) 660 639 637 1936
12   France (FRA) 663 626 622 1911
13   Greece (GRE) 647 601 585 1833

Competition bracket edit

The United States and the Netherlands both pulled off minor upsets in the first round of competition, the round of 16. The Korean, Italian, and Taiwanese teams sat out due to their high rankings.

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.

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.

The final turned out to be the easiest victory for the Korean team in the entire tournament, a 6-point win over Chinese Taipei.

Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
  South Korea (KOR)
Bye   South Korea (KOR) 250
  Netherlands (NED) 244   Netherlands (NED) 249
  Mexico (MEX) 234   South Korea (KOR) 242
  Japan (JPN) 254   Ukraine (UKR) 239
  France (FRA) 241   Ukraine (UKR) 242
  Ukraine (UKR) 243   Japan (JPN) 236
  Greece (GRE) 225   South Korea (KOR) 251
  Italy (ITA)   Chinese Taipei (TPE) 245
Bye   United States (USA) 243
  United States (USA) 246   Italy (ITA) 240
  Sweden (SWE) 242   Chinese Taipei (TPE) 244
  Australia (AUS) 248   United States (USA) 243
  India (IND) 236   Chinese Taipei (TPE) 250
  Chinese Taipei (TPE)   Australia (AUS) 247
Bye

Bronze Medal Match:   Ukraine (UKR) def.   United States (USA) 237-235

References edit

  • "Men's team archery results". BBC. 11 August 2004. Retrieved 20 February 2007.