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The winner of the Gold Medal: Marco Galiazzo from Italy
The winner of the Silver Medal: Hiroshi Yamamoto from Japan
The winner of the Bronze Medal: Tim Cuddihy from Australia
"South Korea's Park Sung-hyun defeated countrywoman Lee Sung-jin in the final of the archery competition at Panathinaiko stadium.
Tied at 100 after 11 shots, Park scored a 10 with her final arrow. Lee was unable to answer, scoring an 8, to give Park the gold.
Britain's Alison Williamson, competing in her fourth Olympics, defeated Taiwan's Yuan Shu Chi to win the bronze medal."
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"South Korea's Park Sung-hyun won the first Olympic gold medal at ancient Panathinaiko Stadium on Wednesday, beating countrywoman Lee Sung-jin in the final of the archery competition.
The two Korean archers went down to the last shot to determine the individual champion. Tied at 100 after 11 shots, Park scored a 10 with her final arrow. Lee was unable to answer, scoring an 8, to give Park the gold. Still, Lee recognized the special history of her environs.
"It is a huge privilege for me to be here," she said through an interpreter."
Read more at S. Korea's Park Wins First Archery Gold
The winner of the Gold Medal: Park Sung Hyun from Korea, South
The winner of the Silver Medal: Lee Sung Jin from Korea, South
The winner of the Bronze Medal: Alison Williamson from United Kingdom (Great Britain)
"Defending women's archery champion Yun Mi-jin of South Korea set a new Olympic record for 36 arrows Wednesday on her way to qualification for the quarterfinals.
Yun's combined score of 341 for the 1/16 and 1/8 elimination rounds was six points better than the record she set in Sydney four years ago.
Yun's score of 173 in the 1/16 round also equaled her own 18-arrow Olympic record."AP Wire | 08/18/2004 | South Korean Sets 36-Arrow Archery Record
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"There are few sports in the Athens Olympic Games with more of an historic background and few venues in the world steeped in history more than the 2 300-year-old Panathinaiko Stadium, situated at the foot of the Ardittou Hill, near the National Gardens. This is the home of the archery competition.
The ancient history and the pure white marble of the open ended stadium make it a hot, intimidating venue, possibly more so than any other venue in the Greek capital.
And it is here that Manchester-based but Roodepoort-born and Cape Town-raised, South African archer, 53rd-ranked Kirsten Lewis caused an upset and moved into the last sixteen of the five-day long competition, with a 157 to 153 victory over 20th-ranked Sumangala Sharma from India."
Read more at SA's Lewis shoots her way into last 16
"Australian reigning Olympic champion Simon Fairweather became the first major casualty of the strong winds which have dogged the archery at the Athens Games when he lost in the first round of the men's individual contest on Monday.
The Australian, beaten by Anton Prylepav of Belarus 141-137, said the winds were the worst he had encountered in the past five Olympics.
"You've got the head wind here coming straight down the stadium and there's not much you can do to hide from it," he said."
Read more at Fairweather a shock first round loser
"A few hundred spectators were on hand to witness the homecoming and to watch the first arrows fly in the archery competition at one of the world's most heralded sporting venues.
Site of an ancient arena and venue for the Games revival in 1896, the elegant stadium is a showpiece for unprecedented media coverage of the ancient skill of archery and will provide the marathon finish line.
Fotini Vavatsi of Greece was appropriately among the first archers to retrace the footsteps of the first modern Olympians when she strode down the ancient 100-meter tunnel into the horseshoe of terraces.
A fraction of the fans were on hand to witness the historic moment compared to the last Olympic competition at the stadium in 1896."
Read more at Olympics-Archery-Arrows Fly as Modern Games Return Home
It's only the ranking round of the Olympic archery competition and already world records are falling.
South Korean Park Sung-hyun set an individual world record of 682 points on Thursday at the Athens Summer Games, breaking the 72-arrow mark of 679, set in May 2004 by Italy's Natalia Valeeva.
CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - CBC Sports: South Koreans set archery records in Olympic preliminaries
"South Korean Park Sung-hyun set an individual world record of 682 points Thursday during the ranking round of the Olympic archery competition. Park broke the 72-arrow mark of 679, set in May by Italian Natalia Valeeva.
The team of Park, Lee Sung-jin and Yun Mi-jin also set a world record of 2,030 for the 216-arrow ranking round. The mark of 1,994 also was set by South Korea, at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Yun was a member of that team.
Lee was second in the competition with 675, and Yun was third with 673.
Jennifer Nichols of Cheyenne, Wyo., was the top American, finishing 19th with 638. Stephanie White-Arnold of Portland, Ind., was 36th with 623. Janet Dykman of El Monte, Calif., was 44th.
In the ranking round, each athlete shoots 72 arrows from a distance of 70 meters. The round determines the seeding for the single-elimination individual tournament, which starts Sunday at Panathinaiko Stadium."
Read more at South Korean Sets Olympic Archery Record.
"Korean athletes are expected to dominate the archery events at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games which begin with the men’s and women’s Qualification Rounds at the Dek Archery Field on Thursday 12 August.
Korea has won 11 Olympic gold medals since 1984, picking up three of the four golds on offer in Sydney four years ago.
Korean women have won gold in the last five individual archery events at the Olympic Games and all four team gold medals since the team event was introduced in 1988.
Leading the Korean women’s team in Athens will be reining champion YUN Mi Jin.
No archer has been able to defend the individual title since the sport was re-introduced into the Olympic programme in 1972.
But YUN, who is still only 21, remains at the top of the sport, winning the World Championships in New York last year.
YUN’s closest rival is likely to be compatriot PARK Sung Hyun, the 2001 world champion and losing finalist in 2003."
Read more at Korea the team to beat in Men’s and Women’s Archery
"For a sport that draws on the imagery of fantasy, few events match archery for its cut-throat intensity.
The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy is responsible for a boom in interest in the sport, but in competition there is no room for romantic delusions. Archery is about mental toughness and technical proficiency, an event where millimetres count.
At the Olympic Games, organisers have made it even tougher. In days gone by, the individual event was something of a marathon, with shooters lining up for four days of competition, accumulating as many points as possible.
Now, it is a nerve-racking contest in which the strong are pitted against the weak, where opponents are given one chance of victory or elimination.
All competitors shoot a first round of 72 arrows to earn a ranking of one to 64. From there, a knock-out competition begins where No 1 is matched against No 64, No 2 against No 63, and so on."
Read more at Arrows aimed at Athens bullseye.
"Drawing inspiration from a second-place finish in the world junior archery championships, the Indian contingent for the Athens Olympics is hoping to win a medal in the team event. The non-playing captain of the Indian team, Pareshnath Mukherjee, said that they have a 50-50 chance of winning a medal in the mega show.
“Most countries could not represent themselves in the team events since they don’t have a good number of quality archers. Hence, we are hoping to do well in that category,” Mukherjee said at a press conference at the Calcutta Sports Journalists’ Club (CSJC) on Tuesday.
The men’s team consists of Satyadev Prasad, Tarundeep Rai and Majhi Sawaiyan while the women’s outfit comprises Dola Banerjee, Reena Kumari and Sumangala.
Mukherjee maintained that it is a great achievement that India have booked berths in both the men’s and women’s sections by virtue of superb show in the world championships in the United States in July, 2003." Source - India pin hopes on team events - Olympic archery l There’s no reason why I won’t produce my best in Athens: Dola
KGVO has a good preview of Archery at the Athens Olympics including a history of Olympic Archery and some suggestions of who to look out for in Athens.
'With respect to the women's records set in Olympic competition, all but one of them, the 72 Arrow Ranking Round, held by Lina Herasymenko with 673 in 1996, is held by a member of the Korean team, with all but one of those marks being established in Sydney. Needless to say, the Korean women are again the favorites to hit the mark in Greece this summer.
As with the women, the Korean men have also been dominant in the sport over the last couple of Olympics, with the U.S. holding its own in the 54 Arrow Finals combination in Atlanta in 1996. The Korean men will again be the favorite this time around, but that's not to say that the United States is out of the hunt altogether.
In terms of medals won previously in archery, Korea has the most gold (11) and silver (six), as well as the most overall with 21. The United States is the only other nation to have won more than one gold medal, having tallied eight, and coming up with 13 medals overall entering the 2004 event.
Russia has been the only other dominant participant in the sport, coming away with nine total medals (no other nation has more than four), with five of those coming in the bronze category.
The last gold medal for the U.S. came in 1996 when the men (Justin Huish, Richard Johnson and Rod White) won the team title.'
Australian teenager Tim Cuddihy warmed up for the Athens Olympics by taking gold at the World Junior Archery Championships at Lilleshall.
The 17-year-old star beat Luxembourg's Gilles Decker in the final of the junior men's recurve championship.
"I'm having a great year and now can't wait to go out to Athens next month," said Cuddihy.
"But as for winning a gold medal, well, it's an aspiration, but the competition will be really intense."
Cuddihy is one of two teenagers in Australia's three-man archery squad for Athens, along with 18-year-old David Barnes, who is also tipped for great things. Source - Wonderboy eyes Athens gold
Melissa Jennison has been selected at the last minute to compete in Australia's Archery team in Athens after Jade Betty withdrew from the team due to injury. Read the full story at The Age
The British Archery Team are focussing more and more heavily upon the Athens Olympics and will compete in a final Grand Prix event in Turkey next week.
'Alison Williamson, Naomi Folkard, Helen Palmer and Larry Godfrey will be among the world's top performers in Antalya.' Read More at - Archers Eye Turkish Delight
John Magera did not expect to make this year's US Olympics Archery Team - but in only his fourth archery competition ever he impressed selectors with his ability.
'Magera, a lifelong bow hunter, who picked up an Olympic style recurve bow for the first time 16 months ago, stunned the field at the Olympic trials in June by finishing third and securing the final spot on the U.S. team headed to Athens this summer. It was his fourth tournament ever.
"My goal wasn't to make the Olympic team," Magera said. "I was using the trials as a way to improve my ranking. I was actually aiming for the 2005 U.S. team."
Obviously, Magera's aim is better than even he expected.
For the past 25 years, Magera, a wildlife refuge manager, enjoyed bow hunting as a family pastime. He says he loved the beauty of the outdoors, the challenge of learning an animal's habits, and on occasion, when he did take aim and shoot, the fundamentally appealing arc of his arrow's flight.' Read more at 'Road to Athens - Archery
'Tarundeep Rai and Sumangala were among the six archers who clinched the Olympic berth after topping the men's and women's rankings at the end of fifth and final leg of Rs 4 lakh-prize money National Ranking tournament here today.
India had won three Olympic quotas in the men's and the women's category each in various international qualifying meets. These berths were awarded based on the performance in a series national ranking tournaments conducted by the Archery Association of India. 'Read more of - Tarundeep Rai, Sumangala clinch Olympic berth
Archery at the Athens Olympics runs between 15-21 August.
Keep in touch with the latest Olympics Archery News.
Archery is being held at the Panathinaiko Stadium and consists of four events - two individual Archery Gold Medals and two team Archery Gold Medals will be awarded.
South Korea won men's and women's team competitions in 2000, and swept the podium in women's individual. Italy boasts some top men's archers. Jennifer Nichols is the top U.S. woman, while 2000 silver medalist Vic Wunderle is back for the U.S. men.
Men's Team Archery
Women's Team Archery
Korea will be difficult to beat in each of the other Archery events having won Gold Medals in both team competitions and the Women's individual event in Sydney.
10:30 AM
Men's Team
Quarterfinals
3:45 PM
Men's Team
Semifinals
4:44 PM
Men's Team
Bronze Medal Match
5:14 PM
Men's Team
Gold Medal Match
Friday, August 20
8:30 AM
Women's Team
1/8 Eliminations
10:30 AM
Women's Team
Quarterfinals
3:45 PM
Women's Team
Semifinals
4:44 PM
Women's Team
Bronze Medal Match
5:14 PM
Women's Team
Gold Medal Match
