The men's individual archery event was one of 4 archery events at the

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. The medals were presented by

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, Turkey and Tom Dielen, Secretary General of the

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Competition format

As with the other archery events, the men's individual was a recurve archery event, held under the

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-approved 70-meter distance and rules. 64 archers participated. Competition began with a ranking round, in which each archer shot 72 arrows. The scores from the ranking round were used to seed the archers into a single-elimination bracket. The knockout matches used the set system introduced in 2012. Each match consisted of up to 5 sets of 3 arrows per archer. The archer with the best score in each set won the set, earning 2 points. If the score was tied, each archer received 1 point. The first archer to 6 points won the match. If the match was tied 5-5 after 5 sets, a single tie-breaker arrow was used with the closest to center winning.

Schedule

All times are

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Records

Prior to the competition, the world and Olympic records were as follows.

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broke both records. *''72 arrow ranking round''

Results

Ranking round

* WR: World record * OR: Olympic record

Competition bracket

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4 Finals

References

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