The men's team archery event at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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was part of the
archery programme and took place at the
Olympic Green Archery Field
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The field occupied 9.22 hectares
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. Ranking Round was scheduled for August 9 and elimination rounds and Finals took place on August 11. All archery is done at a range of 70 metres, with targets 1.22 metres in diameter.
As the defending
Olympic champions,
South Korea
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defended the title with two archers from the past
Games
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,
Im Dong-Hyun
Im Dong-hyun (; ; born 12 May 1986) is a South Korean archer. He competes for the South Korean national team and is a former world number one. He has 20/200 vision in his left eye and 20/100 vision in his right eye, meaning he needs to be 1 ...
and
Park Kyung-Mo
Park Kyung-mo (; born August 15, 1975) is an archer from South Korea. He has won gold medals at the three major World Archery Federation events (Olympics, World Archery Championships and World Cup finals) and is a former w ...
.
Chinese Taipei
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Due to the One-China principle stipulated by the ...
, silver at the last Games, participated at the event with only one Athens medalist,
Wang Cheng Pang.
Ukraine
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, bronze in Athens, brought
Viktor Ruban and
Oleksandr Serdyuk back at the Games.
12 teams
qualified for the event at the Beijing Olympics: host
China
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, plus the top 8 teams at the
44th Outdoor Archery World championship, held in
Leipzig
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, Germany, and 3 other NOCs that qualified three athletes for the Games.
The competition begins with the same ranking round used to determine the individual event seeding. Each archer fires 72 arrows, with the scores of the team's three members summed to give the team score. The elimination rounds use a single-elimination tournament, with fixed brackets based on the ranking round seeding. Highly ranked teams get byes through to the quarterfinals. In each round of elimination, the two teams each fire 24 arrows (with each individual archer accounting for 8 of them). The higher scoring team moves on, while the lower scoring team is eliminated. The two semifinal losers face off for the bronze medal.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. The change from the prior 27 arrow match to a 24 arrow match for the XXIX Olympiad meant that there was no standing Olympic record in the team match.
*''216 arrow ranking round''
*''24 arrow match''
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
World Rankings Entering Olympics
Ranking Round
Source
Elimination round
Source
Arrow by Arrow - Men's team
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Final Match Details
References
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Men's events at the 2008 Summer Olympics