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Archery at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad | |
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Venue | Stone Mountain Park Archery Center |
Dates | 28 July – 2 August 1996 |
No. of events | 4 (2 men, 2 women) |
Competitors | 128 from 41 nations |
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Archery at the 1996 Summer Olympics |
Archery at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta consisted of four events. The events were held in neighboring Stone Mountain. All archery was done at a range of 70 metres. 64 archers competed in each the men's individual and women's individual competitions. They began with a 72-arrow ranking round. This was followed by three elimination rounds, in which archers competed head-to-head in 18-arrow matches. After these rounds, there were 8 archers left in each gender. The quarterfinals, semifinals, and medal matches (collectively termed the "finals round") were 12-arrow matches. In all matches, losers were eliminated and received a final rank determined by their score in that round, with the exception of the semifinals. The losers of the semifinals competed in the bronze medal match.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual |
Justin Huish United States |
Magnus Petersson Sweden |
Oh Kyo-moon South Korea |
Team |
United States (USA) Justin Huish Butch Johnson Rod White |
South Korea (KOR) Jang Yong-ho Kim Bo-ram Oh Kyo-moon |
Italy (ITA) Matteo Bisiani Michele Frangilli Andrea Parenti |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual |
Kim Kyung-Wook South Korea |
He Ying China |
Olena Sadovnycha Ukraine |
Team |
South Korea (KOR) Kim Jo-Sun Kim Kyung-Wook Yoon Hye-Young |
Germany (GER) Barbara Mensing Cornelia Pfohl Sandra Wagner-Sachse |
Poland (POL) Iwona Dzięcioł Katarzyna Klata Joanna Nowicka |
Forty-one nations contributed archers to compete in the events.
Nation | Men's Individual | Men's Team | Women's Individual | Women's Team | Total |
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Australia | 3 | X | 2 | 5 | |
Belarus | 2 | 2 | |||
Belgium | 1 | 1 | |||
Bhutan | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
Bulgaria | 1 | 1 | |||
Canada | 3 | X | 3 | ||
China | 3 | X | 3 | X | 6 |
Chinese Taipei | 3 | X | 3 | X | 6 |
Estonia | 1 | 1 | |||
Finland | 3 | X | 3 | ||
France | 3 | X | 1 | 4 | |
Georgia | 1 | 1 | |||
Germany | 3 | X | 3 | ||
Great Britain | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
Hungary | 2 | 2 | |||
India | 2 | 2 | |||
Indonesia | 3 | X | 3 | ||
Ireland | 1 | 1 | |||
Italy | 3 | X | 3 | X | 6 |
Japan | 2 | 3 | X | 5 | |
Kazakhstan | 3 | X | 3 | X | 6 |
Kenya | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
Mexico | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
Moldova | 1 | 1 | |||
Mongolia | 1 | 1 | |||
Netherlands | 2 | 2 | |||
New Zealand | 1 | 1 | |||
Norway | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
Poland | 1 | 3 | X | 4 | |
Portugal | 1 | 1 | |||
Puerto Rico | 1 | 1 | |||
Russia | 3 | X | 3 | X | 6 |
San Marino | 1 | 1 | |||
Slovenia | 3 | X | 3 | ||
South Africa | 3 | X | 3 | ||
South Korea | 3 | X | 3 | X | 6 |
Spain | 1 | 1 | |||
Sweden | 3 | X | 3 | X | 6 |
Turkey | 1 | 3 | X | 4 | |
Ukraine | 3 | X | 3 | X | 6 |
United States | 3 | X | 3 | X | 6 |
Total athletes | 64 | 45 | 64 | 45 | 128 |
Total NOCs | 31 | 15 | 29 | 15 | 41 |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | South Korea (KOR) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
2 | United States (USA) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
3 | China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Germany (GER) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
6 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (8 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |