Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's individual


The women's individual archery event at the 2008 Summer Olympics was part of the archery programme. It took place at the Olympic Green Archery Field. [|Ranking Round] was on 9 August 2008. First and second elimination rounds took place on 12 August, and eights, quarterfinal, semifinals and medals matches were on 14 August. All archery was done at a range of 70 metres, with targets 1.22 metres in diameter.
Park Sung-hyun tried to defend her Olympic Gold Medal won in Athens, along with British Alison Williamson, winner of the bronze medal in 2004.
64 archers from 37 countries qualified for the event at the Beijing Olympics. The 44th Outdoor Archery World championship, held in Leipzig, Germany, plus 5 continental qualification tournaments and a Final World Qualification Tournament selected 61 slots for the event, along with 3 Tripartite Commission Invitations.
The competition began with the ranking round. Each archer fired 72 arrows. This round was done entirely to seed the elimination brackets; all archers moved on to them. The elimination rounds used a single-elimination tournament, with fixed brackets based on the ranking round seeding. In each round of elimination, the two archers in each match fired 12 arrows; the archer with the higher score advanced to the next round while the other archer was eliminated. Unlike in previous years, in which the first three rounds used an 18-arrow match, the 12-arrow match was used throughout the 2008 tournament.
The Chinese archer Zhang Juanjuan defeated South Korean Park Sung-hyun by a margin of 1 point, ending the Koreans' dominance in the women's individual archery event, which dated back to the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time
DateTimeRound
Saturday, 9 August 200812:00-14:00Ranking Round
Tuesday, 12 August 200810:00-12:35
15:30-18:05		 Round of 64, Round of 32
Thursday, 14 August 200810:30-12:15 Round of 16
Thursday, 14 August 200816:00-16:52 Quarterfinals
Thursday, 14 August 200816:52-17:20 Semifinals
Thursday, 14 August 200817:21-17:50 Finals

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
DateRecordRoundNameNationalityScoreORWR
14 August12 arrow matchRound of 16Park Sung-hyun115OR

Ranking Round

RankArcherNation1st Half2nd Half10sXsScore
1Park Sung-hyun3363373412673
2Yun Ok-Hee3363313014667
3Joo Hyun-Jung3393253210664
4Khatuna Narimanidze3303332812663
5Kwon Un Sil324332329656
6Yuan Shu Chi334318237652
7Alison Williamson325326223651
8Naomi Folkard329322216651
9Nami Hayakawa326323229649
10Ana Rendón319328226647
11Natalia Erdyniyeva3243232111647
12Aida Román319327245646
13Małgorzata Ćwienczek3233222710645
14Bérengère Schuh323322249645
15Chen Ling330315187645
16Zekiye Keskin Satir317327216644
17Kristine Esebua332311245643
18Natalia Sánchez328315205643
19Justyna Mospinek321322166643
20Mariana Avitia328313226641
21Viktoriya Koval318323206641
22Laishram Bombaya Devi319318229637
23Miroslava Dagbaeva318319182637
24Jennifer Nichols320317156637
25Guo Dan322314218636
26Khatuna Lorig319316189635
27Zhang Juanjuan3233121610635
28Jane Waller312322217634
29Wu Hui Ju320314195634
30Natalia Valeeva316318142634
31Dola Banerjee319314208633
32Sophie Dodemont313319132632
33Anja Hitzler318311177629
34Marie-Pier Beaudet319309186628
35Anastassiya Bannova320308166628
36Leidys Brito311317163628
37Pranitha Vardhineni321306183627
38Tetyana Berezhna314313135627
39Virginie Arnold310316227626
40Charlotte Burgess312311133623
41Ika Yuliana Rochmawati313308124621
42Rina Dewi Puspitasari317303196620
43Iwona Marcinkiewicz308312135620
44Barbora Horáčková313307124620
45Son Hye Yong308310114618
46Sayoko Kitabatake317299175616
47Katsiaryna Muliuk311305142616
48Yuki Hayashi306310134616
49Elpida Romantzi309305175614
50Evangelia Psarra308305199613
51Pia Carmen Lionetti310303187613
52Louise Laursen295310135605
53Veronique D'Unienville304301133605
54Nathalie Dielen289312134601
55Elena Tonetta300295106595
56Elena Mousikou293296104589
57Soha Abed Elaal28929891587
58Wei Pi-Hsiu291294101585
59Lexie Feeney29428694580
60Najmeh Abtin278290126568
61Dorji Dema28328482567
62Sigrid Romero27927281551
63Albina Kamaletdinova294253107547
64Khadija Abbouda27026974539

Competition bracket

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Finals