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The Men's individual archery event at the 2004
Summer Olympics was part of the archery programme.
Its final was held on August 19 at the Panathinaiko Stadium.
Ranking
round
The Korean
archers, medal favorites in both men's and women's competition,
ranked 1st (Im Dong-hyun), 4th (Park Kyung-mo), and 5th (Jang
Yong-ho) in the men's individual ranking round. Im's score of
687 set a new world record for 72 arrows, breaking the previous one
set in 1995 by fellow Korean Shim Young-sung. It is not recognized
by the International Olympic
Committee as an Olympic record, however, as the ranking round
took place on 12 August, before the 2004 opening ceremony. The
round was held at Dekelia Air Force Base.
The bracket setup (with 4th- and 5th-ranked archers facing off
in the quarterfinals if undefeated and the winner of that match
facing the 1st-ranked archer in the semifinals) meant that the
Korean men could do no better than gold and bronze. Marco Galiazzo of
Italy in 2nd and Magnus
Petersson of Sweden in 3rd
rounded out the top five, with Dmytro Hrachov in 6th with the same
score as 5th-ranked Jang of Korea.
The three medalists of the 2000 Summer Olympics, Simon
Fairweather, Vic
Wunderle, and Wietse van Alten, all competed in
2004. None placed higher than 14th in the ranking round (van Alten)
and only Wunderle made it to the quarterfinals.
Competition
bracket
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Medal
matches
Event
summary
- Round of 64
The first round of elimination, held on 16 August, narrowed the
field from 64 archers to 32 in a standard single-elimination
bracket. The loser of each match received a final rank between 33
and 64, depending on his score in the round. Each archer fired six
ends of three arrows, for a total possible score of 180. Oleksandr
Serdyuk of Ukraine had
the highest score in the round, with 164.
The first upset of the day belonged to 43rd-ranked Vic Wunderle of the
United States,
who defeated 22nd-ranked Majhi Sawaiyan of India. The United States were on the losing end
of an even larger upset, though, when Butch Johnson lost to Ron van der
Hoff of the Netherlands. The biggest upset occurred
when 52nd-ranked Tashi
Peljor of Bhutan defeated
13th-ranked Jocelyn de Grandis of France to become the lowest
ranked archer to advance.
- Round of 32
As in the round of 64, archers who advanced to the round of 32
fired six ends of three arrows in the second round of elimination.
This round, on 18 August, narrowed the field from 32 to 16 archers,
with winners advancing and losers receiving a final rank between 17
and 32 depending on their score in the round. Im
Dong-hyun of Korea scored the highest in the round,
missing the Olympic record by 1 point with a score of 171.
48th-ranked Satyadev Prasad of India was the lowest ranked archer to
advance.
Vic Wunderle of
the United
States continued to have success in head-to-head competition,
eliminating 11th-ranked Wang Cheng-pang of Chinese Taipei.
In an astonishing match, 31st-ranked Laurence Godfrey, Great Britain eked
out a victory over 2nd-ranked Magnus Petersson of Sweden. Two other top-ten-ranked archers fell
when 27th-ranked Xue
Haifeng of China defeated 6th-ranked Dmytro Hrachov of
Ukraine and 25th-ranked Hasse Pavia
Lind lost to Oleksandr Serdyuk. One of the Korean archers, Park Kyung-mo, nearly fell to Kazakhstani Stanislav
Zabrodskiy when Zabrodskiy tied Park through the first 18
arrows and scored a 10 on the first tie-break. Park also scored a
10, and followed it up with a second 10 which Zabrodskiy could not
match. A tie-break was also needed in the match between Viktor Ruban of Ukraine and Wang Cheng-pang
of Chinese
Taipei, which Ruban won 9-8.
- Round of 16
The round of 16 was held on 19 August and followed the same
18-arrow format as the previous two rounds as it narrowed the field
to eight quarterfinalists.
- Quarterfinals
The first round of 12-arrow matches was the quarterfinals on 19
August. Winners advanced to the semifinals while losers received a
final rank between 5 and 8 depending on score in the quarterfinals.
The high score of the round was notched by Tim Cuddihy, with 112. In a see-saw battle,
Marco Galiazzo
took a lead over Vic
Wunderle in the third end. In a tense final end, Wunderle
closed the gap. Galiazzo, needing an 8 to tie on the last arrow,
shot a 9 to advance and end Wunderle's run. In a surprise, both of
the remaining Korean
archers fell to Hiroshi Yamamoto and Tim Cuddihy in 1-point
matches eliminating them from medal contention. Laurence Godfrey had the most
decisive victory of the round, a still-close 2-point victory of Chen Szu Yuan.
- Semifinals
Yamamoto and Cuddihy both tied the Olympic record for a 12-arrow match (set
by Oh Kyo-moon in 1996) by tying their semifinal match at 115 on 19
August. In the tie-breaker, Yamamoto shot first and hit a 10.
Cuddihy was unable to match this, shooting a 9 to drop out of gold
medal contention.
- Bronze medal match
The bronze
medal match was held on 19 August as well. The winner received
the bronze medal while the loser took fourth place. Cuddihy
defeated Godfrey in a close match.
- Final
The gold medal match on 19 August pitted a first-time-Olympian
Italian against a veteran Japanese archer, with the favored
Koreans being
conspicuously absent. The match consisted of 12 arrows, with the
winner taking gold and the loser receiving a silver medal.
With a pair of 10s in the first end, Hiroshi Yamamoto took a quick
lead of 1 point over Marco Galiazzo. In the second end,
Galiazzo missed perfection by only 1 point, scoring 29 to
Yamamoto's 27 to reverse the lead. He hit another pair of 10s in
the third end, increasing his lead to 2 points going into the final
end. Galiazzo maintained the lead through the final three arrows,
winning Italy's first Olympic gold medal in archery. Yamamoto's
silver was his second Olympic medal, joining the bronze medal that
he won in 1984.
References
Im
Dong-hyun (KOR)
Yehya
Bundhun (MRI)
A.
Karageorgiou (GRE)
Tarundeep
Rai (IND)
Yuji Hamano (JPN)
Ron van der
Hoff (NED)
Butch
Johnson (USA)
Franck
Fisseux (FRA)
Michele
Frangilli (ITA)
Lockoneco
Lockoneco (INA)
Oleksandr
Serdyuk (UKR)
Felipe López (ESP)
Hasse Pavia
Lind (DEN)
Ismail
Essam (EGY)
Yong Fujun (CHN)
Cuddihy (AUS)
Michael
Frankenberg (GER)
Dmitry Nevmerzhitskiy (RUS)
Tashi
Peljor (BHU)
Prylepau (BLR)
Stanislav
Zabrodskiy (KAZ)
Rob Elder (FIJ)
Sifa
Taumoepeau (TGA)
Juan Rene Serrano (MEX)
Mattias
Eriksson (SWE)
Ricardo
Merlos (ESA)
Liu
Ming-huang (TPE)
Ken
Uprichard (NZL)
Yavor
Hristov (BUL)
Jacek
Proć (POL)
Jeff
Henckels (LUX)
Godfrey (GBR)
Jonathan
Ohayon (CAN)
Hasan Orbay (TUR)
P. Thiamphasone (LAO)
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