Archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's team

The men's team was an archery event held as part of the archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

Men's team
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
The Sydney International Archery Park, where the event took place
VenueSydney International Archery Park
Date16–22 September
Competitors42 from 14 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jang Yong-Ho
Kim Chung-tae
Oh Kyo-Moon
 South Korea
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Matteo Bisiani
Ilario Di Buò
Michele Frangilli
 Italy
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Butch Johnson
Rod White
Vic Wunderle
 United States
← 1996
2004 →

A total of 14 teams competed in the third appearance of the Olympic team round archery event. The ranking round, which determined the seeds for all teams, doubled as the ranking round for the individual competition and was held on 16 September 2000. Each archer shot 72 arrows, and the scores of the three archers for each team were summed to give a team ranking round score. A single-elimination head-to-head tournament was held on 22 September. During each round of competition, each archer shot nine arrows for a team score based on 27 arrows. The losers of the semifinals faced off in a bronze medal match, while teams defeated before then were assigned rankings within the group of other teams defeated in their round based on their score in that round.

The South Korean team, which had swept the top three places in the ranking round but had seen each of its members suffer upsets in the individual knock-out rounds, won by comfortable margins in the team knock-out rounds to take the gold medal. The trio set a new world record for a 27-arrow team match in the quarterfinals, with a score of 258 of a possible 270.[2] Italy and Russia each managed to defeat two higher-seeded teams before falling to the Koreans; this gave Italy the silver medal and put Russia in the bronze medal match against the United States. The Russians forced the first Olympic team match tiebreaker against the Americans in that match, losing 29-26 in that tiebreaker.

Ranking round

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The ranking for the men's teams was determined by summing the ranking round scores of the three members.

Rank Nation Archer Score
1   South Korea (KOR) Jang Yong-Ho
Kim Chung-tae
Oh Kyo-Moon
1980
2   United States (USA) Butch Johnson
Rod White
Vic Wunderle
1921
3   Kazakhstan (KAZ) Aleksandr Li
Vadim Shikarev
Stanislav Zabrodsky
1916
4   Turkey (TUR) Özdemir Akbal
Hasan Orbay
Serdar Şatır
1899
5   Netherlands (NED) Wietse van Alten
Fred van Zutphen
Henk Vogels
1899
6   Italy (ITA) Matteo Bisiani
Ilario Di Buò
Michele Frangilli
1895
7   Sweden (SWE) Mattias Eriksson
Niklas Eriksson
Magnus Petersson
1891
8   China (CHN) Fu Shengjun
Tang Hua
Yang Bo
1886
9   Ukraine (UKR) Serhiy Antonov
Viktor Kurchenko
Ihor Parkhomenko
1878
10   Australia (AUS) Simon Fairweather
Matthew Gray
Scott Hunter-Russell
1876
11   France (FRA) Sébastien Flute
Jocelyn de Grandis
Lionel Torres
1874
12   Russia (RUS) Bair Badënov
Yuri Leontiev
Balzhinima Tsyrempilov
1870
13   Japan (JPN) Yuji Hamano
Masafumi Makiyama
Takayoshi Matsushita
1841
14   Norway (NOR) Martinus Grov
Lars Erik Humlekjær
Bård Nesteng
1839

Knockout stage

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Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
1   South Korea (KOR) 258
9   Ukraine (UKR) 244 9   Ukraine (UKR) 236
8   China (CHN) 235 1   South Korea (KOR) 240
12   Russia (RUS) 248 12   Russia (RUS) 229
5   Netherlands (NED) 241 12   Russia (RUS) 247
4   Turkey (TUR) 253 4   Turkey (TUR) 245
13   Japan (JPN) 231 1   South Korea (KOR) 255
3   Kazakhstan (KAZ) 246 6   Italy (ITA) 247
14   Norway (NOR) 241 3   Kazakhstan (KAZ) 244
6   Italy (ITA) 250 6   Italy (ITA) 249
11   France (FRA) 239 6   Italy (ITA) 244 Bronze medal match
7   Sweden (SWE) 241 2   United States (USA) 241
10   Australia (AUS) 238 7   Sweden (SWE) 244 2   United States (USA) 23929
2   United States (USA) 255 12   Russia (RUS) 23926

In the first team round tie-breaker in Olympic archery history, the United States won the bronze medal, defeating Russia by shooting a near-perfect 29 to the Russians' 26.

References

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  1. ^ "Archery at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Team". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  2. ^ Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad, Volume 3: Results (PDF) (in English and French). pp. AR 81. ISBN 0-9579616-0-X. Archived from the original (CD-ROM) on 27 September 2007.

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