Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's team

Women's team archery
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Women's team archery; at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Green Archery Field
Dates	August 9–10
Competitors	30 from 10 nations
Winning score	224
Medalists
	← 2004 2012 →

The Women's team archery event at the 2008 Summer Olympics was part of the archery programme and took place at the Olympic Green Archery Field. Ranking Round was scheduled for August 9 and elimination rounds and Finals took place on August 10. All archery is done at a range of 70 metres, with targets 1.22 metres in diameter.

As the defending Olympic champions, South Korea defended the title with only one remaining archer from the previous Games, Park Sung-Hyun, winner of two gold medals. China, silver at the last Games, participated at the team event with only one Athens medalist, Zhang Juanjuan and tried to bring the gold medal to the hosts. Chinese Taipei, bronze in Athens, brought Yuan Shu Chi and Wu Hui Ju back to the Games.

10 teams qualified for the event at the Beijing Olympics: host China, plus the top 8 teams at the 44th Outdoor Archery World championship, held in Leipzig, Germany, and one other NOC that qualified three athletes for the Games.

The competition begins with the same ranking round used to determine the individual event seeding. Each archer fires 72 arrows, with the scores of the team's three members summed to give the team score. The elimination rounds use a single-elimination tournament, with fixed brackets based on the ranking round seeding. Highly ranked teams get byes through to the quarterfinals. In each round of elimination, the two teams each fire 24 arrows (with each individual archer accounting for 8 of them). The higher scoring team moves on, while the lower scoring team is eliminated. The two semifinal losers face off for the bronze medal.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. The change from the prior 27 arrow match to a 24 arrow match for the XXIX Olympiad meant that there was no standing Olympic record in the team match.

216 arrow ranking round

World record	South Korea Park Sung-Hyun, Lee Sung-Jin, Yun Mi-Jin	2030^[1]	Athens, Greece	12 August 2004
Olympic record	South Korea Kim Soo-Nyung, Kim Nam-Soon, Yun Mi-Jin	1994	Sydney, Australia	16 September 2000

24 arrow match

World record	South Korea Lee Tuk-Young, Yun Ok-Hee, Yun Mi-Jin	228	Shanghai	29 September 2006
Olympic record	New record classification	–	–	–

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Record	Round	Name	Nationality	Score	OR	WR
9 August	216 arrow ranking round	Ranking Round	Park Sung-Hyun Yun Ok-Hee Joo Hyun-Jung	South Korea	2004	OR
10 August	24 arrow match	First Round	Natalia Valeeva Pia Carmen Maria Lionetti Elena Tonetta	Italy	215	OR
10 August	24 arrow match	Quarterfinals	Bérengère Schuh Sophie Dodemont Virginie Arnold	France	218	OR
10 August	24 arrow match	Quarterfinals	Park Sung-Hyun Yun Ok-Hee Joo Hyun-Jung	South Korea	231	OR	WR

World rankings entering Olympics

Rank	Team
1	South Korea (KOR)
2	Great Britain (GBR)
3	China (CHN)
4	Italy (ITA)
5	Poland (POL)
7	Chinese Taipei (TPE)
11	India (IND)
13	Japan (JPN)
15	France (FRA)
17	Colombia (COL)

Ranking Round

Rank	Team	1st Half	2nd Half	10s	Xs	Score
1	South Korea (KOR)	1011	993	96	36	2004 OR
	Park Sung-Hyun (KOR)	336	337	34	12	673
	Yun Ok-Hee (KOR)	336	331	30	14	667
	Joo Hyun-Jung (KOR)	339	325	32	10	664
2	Great Britain (GBR)	983	959	56	12	1925
	Alison Williamson (GBR)	325	326	22	3	651
	Naomi Folkard (GBR)	329	322	21	6	651
	Charlotte Burgess (GBR)	312	311	13	3	623
3	China (CHN)	975	941	55	25	1916
	Chen Ling (CHN)	330	315	18	7	645
	Guo Dan (CHN)	322	314	21	8	636
	Zhang Juanjuan (CHN)	323	312	16	10	635
4	Poland (POL)	952	956	56	21	1908
	Małgorzata Ćwieńczek (POL)	323	322	27	10	645
	Justyna Mospinek (POL)	321	322	16	6	643
	Iwona Marcinkiewicz (POL)	308	312	13	5	620
5	France (FRA)	946	957	59	18	1903
	Bérengère Schuh (FRA)	323	322	24	9	645
	Sophie Dodemont (FRA)	313	319	13	2	632
	Virginie Arnold (FRA)	310	316	22	7	626
6	India (IND)	959	938	60	20	1897
	Laishram Bombaya Devi (IND)	319	318	22	9	637
	Dola Banerjee (IND)	319	314	20	8	633
	Pranitha Devi (IND)	321	306	18	3	627
7	Japan (JPN)	949	932	52	18	1881
	Nami Hayakawa (JPN)	326	323	22	9	649
	Sayoko Kitabatake (JPN)	317	299	17	5	616
	Yuki Hayashi (JPN)	306	310	13	4	616
8	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	945	926	52	13	1871
	Yuan Shu Chi (TPE)	334	318	23	7	652
	Wu Hui Ju (TPE)	320	314	19	5	634
	Wei Pi-Hsiu (TPE)	291	294	10	1	585
9	Italy (ITA)	926	916	42	15	1842
	Natalia Valeeva (ITA)	316	318	14	2	634
	Pia Carmen Maria Lionetti (ITA)	310	303	18	7	613
	Elena Tonetta (ITA)	300	295	10	6	595
10	Colombia (COL)	926	915	50	12	1841
	Ana Rendón (COL)	319	328	22	6	647
	Natalia Sánchez (COL)	328	315	20	5	643
	Sigrid Romero (COL)	279	272	8	1	551

Elimination Round

First Round			Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Finals

			1	South Korea (KOR)	231 (WR)

			9	Italy (ITA)	217
8	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	211

9	Italy (ITA)	215
						1	South Korea (KOR)	213

						5	France (FRA)	184



			5	France (FRA)	218

			4	Poland (POL)	211



									1	South Korea (KOR)	224

									3	China (CHN)	215



			3	China (CHN)	211

			6	India (IND)	206



						3	China (CHN)	208

						2	Great Britain (GBR)	202
7	Japan (JPN)	206							Third place

10	Colombia (COL)	199
			7	Japan (JPN)	196				5	France (FRA)	203

			2	Great Britain (GBR)	201				2	Great Britain (GBR)	201

Final standings

Rank	Team
	South Korea (KOR)
	China (CHN)
	France (FRA)
4	Great Britain (GBR)
5	Italy (ITA)
6	Poland (POL)
7	India (IND)
8	Japan (JPN)
9	Chinese Taipei (TPE)
10	Colombia (COL)

Final Match Details

Team Athletes	End	Arrows			Score
South Korea	24-Match Total				224
Joo Hyun-Jung Yun Ok-Hee Park Sung-Hyun	1	9	9	9	27
	1	8	9	10	27
	2	10	10	9	29
	2	9	9	10	28
	3	10	10	8	28
	3	9	9	10	28
	4	9	9	10	28
	4	10	9	10	29
China	24-Match Total				215
Chen Ling Guo Dan Zhang Juan Juan	1	9	7	10	26
	1	10	8	8	26
	2	9	8	10	27
	2	9	9	9	27
	3	10	9	10	29
	3	8	7	9	24
	4	9	10	9	28
	4	9	10	9	28

References

^ This result is not recognized by the International Olympic Committee as an Olympic record, as the ranking round took place on 12 August, before the 2004 opening ceremony.

[1] This result is not recognized by the International Olympic Committee as an Olympic record, as the ranking round took place on 12 August, before the 2004 opening ceremony.

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