Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics

 

Four events were contested in archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. These events included team competitions for the first time in modern Olympic archery. Men's and women's individual competitions continued to be part of the schedule as well.

The format for the individual competition was altered for the first time since the 1972 Summer Olympics. In Seoul, instead of all archers using the double FITA round to determine rankings, a sort of elimination plan was introduced. Each archer shot a single FITA round to determine initial rankings. Most archers were cut from the competition after this, with only 24 advancing. These archers then shot one-fourth the number of arrows normal for a FITA round, with these scores being used to drop more archers. This process was repeated until only 8 archers finished the fourth segment of the second round.

Medallists

Event:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Men's individual:	Jay Barrs (USA)	Park Sung-Soo (KOR)	Vladimir Yesheyev (URS)
Men's team:	South Korea (KOR) Chun In-Soo Lee Han-Sup Park Sung-Soo	United States (USA) Jay Barrs Richard McKinney Darrell Pace	Great Britain (GBR) Steven Hallard Richard Priestman Leroy Watson
Women's individual:	Kim Soo-Nyung (KOR)	Wang Lee-Kyung (KOR)	Yun Young-Sook (KOR)
Women's team:	South Korea (KOR) Kim Soo-Nyung Wang Hee-Kyung Yun Young-Sook	Indonesia (INA) Lilies Handayani Nurfitriyana Saiman Kusuma Wardhani	United States (USA) Deborah Ochs Denise Parker Melanie Skillman

Top 8 table

Position	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	Total	Medals
1	Korea	3	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	7	6
2	United States	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	4	3
3	Indonesia	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
4	Soviet Union	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	1	5	1
5	Great Britain	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	3	1
6	Finland	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2
7	Sweden	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	3
8	Netherlands	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
9	West Germany	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2
10	Japan	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
11	Chinese Taipei	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
12	France	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1

Results

Men's individual

Men's individual preliminary round

Eventual medallists are highlighted in the color of their medal. Each archer shot a FITA round, consisting of 144 arrows split evenly between the distances of 90 metres, 70 metres, 50 metres, and 30 metres. The top 24 archers advanced to the 1/8 finals.

The United States, winners of the men's gold medal every year they had competed, advanced all of their archers. Korea also had all three archers qualify for the next round. Finland, Japan, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union each had two archers advance. All three medallists from 1984 moved on to the next round.

Rank	Name	Nation	Score
1	Vladimir Echeev	Soviet Union	1304
2	Park Sung-Soo	Korea	1303
3	Jay Barrs	United States	1294
4	Richard McKinney	United States	1288
5	Martinus Reniers	Netherlands	1286
6	Chun In-Soo	Korea	1284
7	Steven Hallard	Great Britain	1283
8	Goran Bjerendal	Sweden	1280
9	Tomi Poikolainen	Finland	1278
10	Olivier Heck	France	1277
11	Simon Fairweather	Australia	1276
12	Lee Han-Sup	Korea	1275
13	Pentti Vikstrom	Finland	1273
14	Hiroshi Yamamoto	Japan	1271
15	Takayoshi Matsushita	Japan	1266
16	Henrik Toft	Denmark	1263
17	John McDonald	Canada	1263
18	Darrell Pace	United States	1257
19	Vedat Erbay	Turkey	1257
20	Detlef Kahlert	West Germany	1254
21	Ilario di Buo	Italy	1251
22	Paul Vermeiren	Belgium	1250
23	K. Chkolny	Soviet Union	1250
24	Leroy Watson	Great Britain	1248
25	Jan Jacobsen	Denmark	1248
26	Jose Anchondo	Mexico	1248
27	Ismo Falck	Finland	1246
28	Andrea Parenti	Italy	1245
29	Juri Leontiev	Soviet Union	1245
30	Mats Nordlander	Sweden	1243
31	Hu Pei-Wen	Chinese Taipei	1243
32	Antonio Vazquez	Spain	1239
33	Giancarlo Ferrari	Italy	1237
34	Kerem Ersu	Turkey	1237
35	Gert Bjerendal	Sweden	1236
36	Sanjeeva Singh	India	1233
37	Thierry Venant	France	1233
38	Omar Bustani	Mexico	1232
39	Limba Ram	India	1232
40	T. Furuhashi	Japan	1229
41	C. Blake	Australia	1228
42	Yen Man-Sung	Chinese Taipei	1227
43	Renato Emilio	Brazil	1225
44	Patrick DeKoning	Belgium	1225
45	Chiu Ping-Kun	Chinese Taipei	1223
46	Doje Qoiying	China	1220
47	Liang Quizhong	China	1220
48	Syafrudin Mawi	Indonesia	1219
49	Adolfo Gonzalez	Mexico	1215
50	Avi Jiminex-Tar	Spain	1215
51	D. Desnoyers	Canada	1215
52	J. Holgado	Spain	1210
53	F. Noteboom	Belgium	1209
54	Manfred Barth	West Germany	1206
55	Ru Guang	China	1204
56	Niels Gammelgaard	Denmark	1203
57	Richard Priestman	Great Britain	1202
58	Denis Canuel	Canada	1201
59	B. Schulkowski	West Germany	1199
60	Paul Bamber	Zimbabwe	1197
61	Izzet Avci	Turkey	1192
62	Jorge Azevedo	Brazil	1191
63	Rodney Wagner	Australia	1184
64	Claude Franclet	France	1181
65	Gilles Cresto	Monaco	1180
66	Carlos Reis	Portugal	1176
67	Miguel Pedraza	Puerto Rico	1172
68	Rowel Merto	Philippines	1162
69	Joseph Malone	Ireland	1162
70	Rui Santos	Portugal	1160
71	Shyam Lal Meena	India	1150
72	Alan Bryant	Zimbabwe	1149
73	Thinley Dorji	Bhutan	1144
74	Noel Lynch	Ireland	1141
75	Claudio Pafundi	Argentina	1126
76	Pema Tshering	Bhutan	1124
77	Fok Ming Shan	Hong Kong	1108
78	Wrex Tarr	Zimbabwe	1092
79	Lai Chi Hung	Hong Kong	1079
80	Jigme Tshering	Bhutan	1070
81	Angel Bello	Argentina	1017
82	Sameer Jawdat	Saudi Arabia	964
83	Adel Aljabrin	Saudi Arabia	921
84	Derrick Tenai	Solomon Islands	505

Men's individual 1/8 final

Eventual medallists are highlighted in the color of their medal. Each archer shot one quarter of a FITA round, with the 36 arrows split evenly between the distances of 90 metres, 70 metres, 50 metres, and 30 metres. The top 18 archers advanced to the quarterfinal.

Korea and the United States again advanced all three archers. Finland and Japan were the nations having two archers qualify. The three medallists from 1984 continued to compete, though Darrell Pace of the United States, gold medallist in Los Angeles, only barely managed to take 18th place to advance.

Rank	Name	Nation	Score	Rank Change
1	Martinus Reniers	Netherlands	328	+4
2	Chun In-Soo	Korea	326	+4
3	Park Sung-Soo	Korea	322	-1
4	Simon Fairweather	Australia	322	+7
5	Ilario di Buo	Italy	322	+16
6	Richard McKinney	United States	321	-2
7	Hiroshi Yamamoto	Japan	316	+7
8	Goran Bjerendal	Sweden	315	0
9	Tomi Poikolainen	Finland	315	0
10	Lee Han-Sup	Korea	314	+2
11	Leroy Watson	Great Britain	314	+13
12	Vladimir Echeev	Soviet Union	313	-11
13	Jay Barrs	United States	313	-10
14	Paul Vermeiren	Belgium	313	+8
15	Pentti Vikstrom	Finland	312	-2
16	Takayoshi Matsushita	Japan	311	-1
17	Detlef Kahlert	West Germany	307	+3
18	Darrell Pace	United States	306	0
19	Olivier Heck	France	306	-9
20	K. Chkolny	Soviet Union	304	+3
21	Steven Hallard	Great Britain	303	-14
22	Vedat Erbay	Turkey	302	-3
23	Henrik Toft	Denmark	295	-7
24	John McDonald	Canada	292	-7

Men's individual quarterfinal

Eventual medallists are highlighted in the color of their medal. Each archer shot one quarter of a FITA round, with the 36 arrows split evenly between the distances of 90 metres, 70 metres, 50 metres, and 30 metres. The top 12 archers advanced to the semifinal.

Once again, the six Korean and American archers advanced, along with two Finnish archers. Pace, who won gold four years earlier, sprang from near-elimination in the 1/8 final to first place in the quarterfinal. It was bronze medal defender Hiroshi Yamamoto that barely escaped elimination in this round.

Rank	Name	Nation	Score	Rank Change
1	Darrell Pace	United States	329	+17
2	Martinus Reniers	Netherlands	328	-1
3	Richard McKinney	United States	327	+3
4	Jay Barrs	United States	326	+7
5	Park Sung-Soo	Korea	324	-2
6	Chun In-Soo	Korea	323	-4
7	Tomi Poikolainen	Finland	323	+2
8	Detlef Kahlert	West Germany	321	+9
9	Lee Han-Sup	Korea	320	+1
10	Vladimir Echeev	Soviet Union	320	+2
11	Pentti Vikstrom	Finland	320	+4
12	Hiroshi Yamamoto	Japan	318	-5
13	Ilario di Buo	Italy	317	-8
14	Takayoshi Matsushita	Japan	316	+2
15	Goran Bjerendal	Sweden	316	-7
16	Simon Fairweather	Australia	316	-12
17	Paul Vermeiren	Belgium	309	-3
18	Leroy Watson	Great Britain	304	-7

Men's individual semifinal

Eventual medallists are highlighted in the color of their medal. Each archer shot one quarter of a FITA round, with the 36 arrows split evenly between the distances of 90 metres, 70 metres, 50 metres, and 30 metres. The top 8 archers advanced to the final.

One archer from each of the three nations with multiple archers fell in this round, leaving Korea and the United States with two archers advancing as Finland joined the Soviet Union, the Netherlands, and Japan in qualifying one archer for the final. Pace, the defending gold medallist, missed the cut by one place. Yamamoto, the defending silver medallist, avoided that fate by shooting two points better than Pace to place eighth.

Rank	Name	Nation	Score	Rank Change
1	Jay Barrs	United States	334	+3
2	Chun In-Soo	Korea	334	+4
3	Richard McKinney	United States	332	0
4	Park Sung-Soo	Korea	329	+1
5	Vladimir Echeev	Soviet Union	328	+5
6	Martinus Reniers	Netherlands	324	-4
7	Pentti Vikstrom	Finland	324	+4
8	Hiroshi Yamamoto	Japan	324	+4
9	Darrell Pace	United States	322	-8
10	Lee Han-Sup	Korea	321	-1
11	Tomi Poikolainen	Finland	321	-4
12	Detlef Kahlert	West Germany	311	-4

Men's individual final

The top three archers in the final earned medals. Each archer shot one quarter of a FITA round, with the 36 arrows split evenly between the distances of 90 metres, 70 metres, 50 metres, and 30 metres.

The United States and Korea, having vied for dominance throughout the competition, won a gold and silver medal, respectively. This continued the American men's streak of winning a gold medal in every men's archery competition in which they had taken part. The Soviet Union also earned a medal. McKinney and Yamamoto, the remaining defending medallists, placed only 6th and 8th, respectively.

Rank	Name	Nation	Score	Rank Change
1	Jay Barrs	United States	338	0
2	Park Sung-Soo	Korea	336	+2
3	Vladimir Echeev	Soviet Union	335	+2
4	Chun In-Soo	Korea	331	-2
5	Martinus Reniers	Netherlands	327	+1
6	Richard McKinney	United States	324	-3
7	Pentti Vikstrom	Finland	323	0
8	Hiroshi Yamamoto	Japan	321	0

Men's team

22 nations competed in the men's team event. The ranking round score for a team was the sum of the three scores earned by the individual archers in the individual ranking round. The top twelve nations competed in the semifinals, with the top eight advancing to the finals.

Men's team preliminary ranking

Rank	Nation	Score
1	Korea	3862
2	United States	3839
3	Soviet Union	3799
4	Finland	3797
5	Japan	3766
6	Sweden	3759
7	Italy	3733
8	Great Britain	3733
9	Denmark	3714
10	Mexico	3695
11	Chinese Taipei	3693
12	France	3691
13	Australia	3688
14	Turkey	3686
15	Belgium	3684
16	Canada	3679
17	Spain	3664
18	West Germany	3659
19	China	3644
20	India	3615
21	Zimbabwe	3438
22	Bhutan	3338

Men's team semifinal

In a surprise, the Korean team fell all the way to sixth place in the semifinal. The United States and Soviet Union each moved up one place into the top two, while Chinese Taipei gave a strong showing in third place. Britain also moved up substantially in the ranking.

Rank	Nation	Score	Rank Change
1	United States	992	+1
2	Soviet Union	976	+1
3	Chinese Taipei	968	+8
4	Great Britain	965	+4
5	Sweden	964	+1
6	Korea	960	-5
7	Finland	960	-3
8	Japan	958	-3
9	Italy	957	-2
10	France	948	+1
11	Denmark	938	-2
12	Mexico	917	2

Men's team final

Korea returned to top form in the final, making full use of the clean slate that each round afforded to win the gold medal. The Americans continued to shoot well, but were unable to keep up with the Koreans, taking home the silver. The Soviets and the Chinese Taipei team both fell out of medal contention, while Britain continued its climb right up into the bronze medal win.

Rank	Nation	Score	Rank Change
1	Korea	986	+5
2	United States	972	-1
3	Great Britain	968	+1
4	Finland	956	+3
5	Soviet Union	949	-3
6	Japan	948	+2
7	Chinese Taipei	937	-4
8	Sweden	925	-3

Women's individual

Women's individual preliminary round

Eventual medallists are highlighted in the color of their medal. Each archer shot a FITA round, consisting of 144 arrows split evenly between the distances of 70 metres, 60 metres, 50 metres, and 30 metres. The top 24 archers qualified for the next round.

The Korean women, who had begun to show strength in the sport four years earlier, completely dominated the preliminary round. They took the three top places as Kim Soo-Nyung shattered the previous Olympic record for a FITA round. The Soviet Union also qualified three archers for the next round when all three placed in the top eight. Chinese Taipei, the United States, China, Sweden, Indonesia, and Great Britain had two archers advance.

Rank	Name	Nation	Score
1	Kim Soo-Nyung	Korea	1331 (OR)
2	Wang Hee Kyung	Korea	1298
3	Yun Young-Sook	Korea	1296
4	Jenny Sjöwall	Sweden	1294
5	Joanne Franks	Great Britain	1281
6	Lioudmila Arjannikova	Soviet Union	1279
7	Tatyana Mountian	Soviet Union	1272
8	Natalya Boutouzova	Soviet Union	1267
9	Liu Pi-Yu