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Archery At The 2000 Summer Olympics
Archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held at Sydney International Archery Park in Sydney, Australia with ranking rounds on 16 September and regular competition held from 17 to 20 September. One hundred twenty-eight archers from forty-six nations competed in the four gold medal events—individual and team events for men and for women—that were contested at these games. The Korean team won three out of the four gold medals contested. Eight Olympic records and three world records were broken at these games. Qualification and format There were four ways for National Olympic Committees (NOCs) to qualify berths for individual archers for the Olympics in archery. No NOC was allowed to enter more than three archers. For each gender, the host nation (Australia) was guaranteed three spots. The 1999 World Target Competition's top 8 teams (besides the host nation) each received three spots, and the 19 highest ranked archers after the team qualifiers were removed also received spot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney International Archery Park
The Sydney International Archery Park was specially designed for Archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics, archery during the 2000 Summer Olympics. The stadium is located in Sydney Olympic Park. It was designed by Peter Stutchbury, Stutchbury and Pape.Philip Goad, Goad, Philip: ''New Directions in Australian Architecture'', Pesaro, 2001 The Archery Centre is located opposite the Waterfront Apartments on Bennelong Parkway, and is about 3 km from Sydney Olympic Park town centre. The venue hosts a wide range of events, such as school holiday programs for kids, beginners' courses, school programs, casual archers and professional coaching. There are facilities available for corporate team building, as well as laser clay pigeon shooting. The venue sports a 100 x 10 metre Archery pavilion, and has parking spaces for bicycles and 80 motor vehicles. Simon Fairweather won the first ever gold medal for Australia during the Sydney 2000 Olympic games. See also * 2000 Summer Olympics venues * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kateryna Serdyuk (archer)
Kateryna Valeriyivna Serdyuk ( uk, Катерина Валеріївна Сердюк; born January 22, 1983) is a Ukrainian archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In mo .... She won a silver medal in the team competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics. In the individual event she placed 16th. ReferencesProfileat Database Olympics 1983 births Living people Ukrainian female archers Archers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic archers of Ukraine Olympic silver medalists for Ukraine Olympic medalists in archery Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics 21st-century Ukrainian women {{Ukraine-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olena Sadovnycha
Olena Anatoliïvna Sadovnycha ( uk, Олена Анатоліївна Садовнича; born November 4, 1967) is an archer from Ukraine who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 .... In Atlanta she won the bronze medal in the individual event. Four years later she won the silver medal as part of the Ukrainian team. References 1967 births Living people Sportspeople from Kyiv Armed Forces sports society (Ukraine) athletes Ukrainian female archers Archers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic archers of Ukraine Olympic silver medalists for Ukraine Olympic bronze medalists for Ukraine Olympic medalists in archery Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nataliya Burdeyna
Nataliya Andriyivna Burdeyna ( ua, Наталія Андріївна Бурдейна, born 30 January 1974) is a Ukrainian archer. She was born in Odessa. Burdeyna was part of the Ukrainian team at the 2000 Summer Olympics, where they won the silver medal. In the individual competition she finished 17th after losing the round of 32. She again represented Ukraine at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 12th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 643. In the first round of elimination, she faced 53rd-ranked Sayoko Kawauchi of Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north .... Burdeyna, in a major upset, lost 137-129 in the 18-arrow match, dropping to 55th overall in women's individual archery. Burdeyna was also a member of the 6th-p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Soo-nyung
Kim Soo-nyung (born April 5, 1971 in Chungcheongbuk-do) is a former member of the South Korean Olympic archery team in 1988, 1992, and 2000. She has earned a total of four gold medals at the Olympics, one for the individual event in 1988 and three for the team event in 1988, 1992 and 2000. She won a further silver medal in 1992 and a bronze in 2000, both for the individual events. She retired after the 1992 Olympics to marry and raise two children, resuming her training in 1999, in the lead up to the 2000 Summer Olympics. She competed at the 1986 Asian Games winning a gold medal in the team event and a bronze in the individual. She also won two consecutive individual and team world championships in 1989 and 1991. In 2011, Kim was declared the ''Female Archer of the 20th Century'' by the International Archery Federation (FITA). See also *Korean archery *Archery *List of South Korean archers South Korean archers have been dominant in modern competitive arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Nam-soon
Kim Nam-soon (born May 7, 1980) was a member of the South Korean Olympic archery team. She won both a gold and a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. See also *Korean archery *Archery *List of South Korean archers South Korean archers have been dominant in modern competitive archery, particularly in the Archery at the Summer Olympics, Olympic Recurve bow, recurve discipline, since the 1980s, thanks to a mixture of public interest, domestic competition, coach ... References 1980 births Living people South Korean female archers Archers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic archers of South Korea Olympic gold medalists for South Korea Olympic silver medalists for South Korea Olympic medalists in archery Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics {{SouthKorea-archery-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yun Mi-jin
Yun Mi-jin (윤미진; born April 30, 1983) is an archer from South Korea who has won three Olympic gold medals and is a former world number one. She holds the Olympic record for a women's 18-arrow match, at 173 out of a possible 180. Yun set the record in Sydney, Australia at the 2000 Summer Olympics and matched it in 2004 in Athens, Greece. In Sydney Yun placed 4th in the individual ranking round with a score of 661. In the first elimination round she beat Erika Reyes of Mexico 168-157. In the round of 32, she defeated Anna Karaseva of Belarus 162-152. In round 16, she broke the Olympic record in women's 18-arrow match in defeat of Alison Williamson of Great Britain 173 to 164. In the quarterfinals, Yun defeated Natalia Bolotova of Russia 110-105 in a 12-arrow match, and in the semi-finals the eventual bronze-medalist and compatriot Kim Soo-nyung 107-105. In the final, she captured the gold by a mere point, when Yun defeated Kim Nam-soon 107-106. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod White
Rodney E. "Rod" White (born March 1, 1977) is an American archer. He competed in the 1996 Olympic Games and the 2000 Olympic Games. In the 1996 team competition he won gold with Justin Huish and Butch Johnson. In 2000 the American team (with Johnson and Vic Wunderle) won the bronze medal. He was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, lives in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. White is also accredited with inspiring the legendary hunter Scott Eddy to pursue bow hunting. See also List of Pennsylvania State University Olympians The List of Pennsylvania State University Olympians is a list of former or current Penn State students (129) and coaches/faculty members (12) that have made an appearance as athletes or medaled at the Olympic Games, plus one athlete for the boycott ... References * * 1977 births American male archers Archers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic gold medalists for the United States in archery Olympic bronze medalists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butch Johnson
Richard Andrew "Butch" Johnson (born August 30, 1955 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an archer from Woodstock, Connecticut in the United States. He has competed in the Summer Olympics five times, and was a part of the gold medal U.S. team at the 1996 Olympics and the bronze medal U.S. team in the 2000 Olympics. 2004 Summer Olympics At the 2004 Olympics, he was surprisingly eliminated by Ron van der Hoff with 135-145 in the round of 64, placing 52nd overall in men's individual archery. He later placed 4th as a member of the United States team. 2008 Summer Olympics At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Johnson finished his ranking round with a total of 653 points. This gave him the 40th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Andrey Abramov in the first round. Both scored 109 points in the regular match and they had to go to an extra round. In this extra round Abramov scored 25 points, while Johnson advanced to the second round with 26 points. There he faced eig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Frangilli
Michele Frangilli (born 1 May 1976) is an Italian archer. Biography He was born in Gallarate. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery, finishing in 6th place and winning the bronze medal in the team event. He also competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery, finishing in 10th place and winning the silver medal in the team event. In 2003 he has won the World Target Archery Championships for Recurve (Olympic) Division in New York. Frangilli competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ... in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32. In the second round of elimination, he was defeated by Hiroshi Yamamoto of Japan, the eventual silver medalist. His fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilario Di Buò
Ilario Di Buò (born 13 December 1965 in Trieste) is an archer from Italy, who was formerly ranked number one in the world. Di Buò won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the team archery competition. He placed 20th in the individual competition. 2004 Summer Olympics Di Buò competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32. In the second round of elimination, he was again victorious and advanced to the round of 16. The third match was Di Buò's downfall, as he lost to fellow Italian and eventual gold medalist Marco Galiazzo. Di Buò placed 16th overall. He was also a member of the 7th-place Italian men's archery team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. 2008 Summer Olympics At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Di Buò finished his ranking round with a total of 670 points, nine points behind leader Juan René Serrano. This gave him the 9th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Mart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
