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Archery at the 1996 Summer Olympics

There were 4 Archery contests held at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, Georgia.

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.

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Medallists

Gold: Silver: Bronze:
Event:
Men's individual: Justin Huish, United States Magnus Petersson, Sweden Oh Kyo-moon , Korea
Women's individual: Kim Kyung-Wook , Korea He Ying, China Olena Sadovnycha , Ukraine
Men's team: United States
Justin Huish
Richard Johnson
Rod White
Korea
Jang Yong-ho
Kim Bo-ram
Oh Kyo-moon
Italy
Matteo Bisiani
Michele Frangilli
Andrea Parenti
Women's team: Korea
Kim Jo-Sun
Kim Kyung-Wook
Youn Hye-Young
Germany
Barbara Mensing
Cornelia Pfohl
Sandra Wagner
Poland
Iwona Dzieciol
Katarzyna Klata
Joanna Nowicka

Top 8 table

Gold Silver Bronze 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
Position Country Total Medals
1 Korea Korea 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 7 4
2 United States United States 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
3 China China 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 1
Sweden Sweden 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 1
5 Germany Germany 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1
6 Ukraine Ukraine 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 1
7 Italy Italy 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 1
8 Poland Poland 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
9 Turkey Turkey 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2
10 Australia Australia 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Belgium Belgium 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
12 Belarus Belarus 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Slovenia Slovenia 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
14 France France 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Finland Finland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1

Results

Men's individual

Final
Rank
Name Nation
1 Justin Huish United States
2 Magnus Petersson Sweden
3 Oh Kyo-moon Korea

Women's individual

Final
Rank
Name Nation
1 Kim Kyung-Wook Korea
2 He Ying China
3 Olena Sadovnycha Ukraine


Men's team

Final
Rank
Name Nation
1 Justin Huish
Richard Johnson
Rod White
United States
2 Jang Yong-ho
Kim Bo-ram
Oh Kyo-moon
Korea
3 Matteo Bisiani
Michele Frangilli
Andrea Parenti
Italy

Women's team

Final
Rank
Name Nation
1 Kim Jo-Sun
Kim Kyung-Wook
Youn Hye-Young
Korea
2 Barbara Mensing
Cornelia Pfohl
Sandra Wagner
Germany
3 Iwona Dzieciol
Katarzyna Klata
Joanna Nowicka
Poland
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