The Women's team 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 August 9 and elimination rounds and Finals took place on August 10. All archery is done at a range of 70 metres, with targets 1.22 metres in diameter. As the defending Olympic champions,

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defended the title with only one remaining archer from the previous

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, Park Sung-hyun, winner of two gold medals.

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, silver at the last Games, participated at the team event with only one Athens medalist,

Zhang Juanjuan Zhang Juanjuan (; born January 2, 1981 in Qingdao, Shandong, People's Republic of China) is an archer from the People's Republic of China. Early and personal life Zhang was born on 2 January 1982 in the Chinese city of Qingdao in Shandong P ...

and tried to bring the gold medal to the hosts.

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, bronze in Athens, brought

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and

Wu Hui Ju Wu Hui-ju (; born 12 November 1982 in Tainan) is an athlete from Republic of China. She competes in archery. 2004 Summer Olympics Wu represented the Republic of China (as Chinese Taipei "Chinese Taipei" is the term used in various ...

back to the Games. 10 teams qualified for the event at the Beijing Olympics: host

, plus the top 8 teams at the 44th Outdoor Archery World championship, held in

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, and one other NOC 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

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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

Elimination round

Final standings

Final Match Details

References

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