The men's individual archery event at the

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was part of the archery programme and took place at the

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. Ranking Round was scheduled for 9 August. First and second elimination rounds took place on 13 August, and eights, quarterfinal, semifinals and medals matches were staged on 15 August. All archery was done at a range of 70 metres, with targets 1.22 metres in diameter.

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was at Beijing to defend his Olympic Gold Medal won on

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but failed to qualify for the finals after being defeated in the Round of 32. Japanese Hiroshi Yamamoto, silver at the last

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did not participate at the Chinese Games. 64 archers from 37 countries qualified for the event at the Beijing Olympics. The

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, held in

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, 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.

Schedule

All times are

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Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. *''72 arrow ranking round'' *''12 arrow match'' The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Results

Ranking Round

Competition bracket

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4 Finals

External links

FITA

Results

References

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