2000 Summer Olympics / Archery

Archery at the XXVII. Summer Olympics
information
Attendees:	128 athletes
Participating nations:	46 (men: 32; women: 34)
Date:	September 16 - September 22
Venue:	Sydney
Competition location:	Sydney International Archery Park
Decisions:	4th
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At the 2000 Summer Olympics in the Australian metropolis of Sydney , four archery competitions were held from September 16 to September 20 .

The venue was the Sydney International Archery Park .

The competitions were held individually and in teams. The competition distance for both sexes was 70 meters. Both sexes also shot at target faces with a diameter of 1.22 meters. 128 athletes, 64 men and women each, from 46 nations took part in the tournament. The ruling nation was South Korea, which won three of the four gold medals as well as one silver and one bronze medal.

Men

singles

space	country	athlete
1	Australia	Simon Fairweather
2	United States	Vic Wunderle
3	Netherlands	Wietse van Alten
4th	Sweden	Magnus Petersson
5	South Korea	Kim Chung-tae
6th	South Korea	Oh Kyo-moon
7th	Russia	Balschinima Zyrempilov
8th	France	Sébastien Flute

Christian Stubbe started for Germany . In the preliminary round, he finished 54th. In the first elimination round he then surprisingly defeated the French Lionel Torres , number two in the world rankings. In the second elimination round, however, he was defeated by the Chinese Bo Yang and finished 25th in the final ranking. Starters from Austria or Switzerland had not been able to fight for a place in the tournament.

team

space	country	athlete
1	South Korea	Jang Yong-ho Kim Chung-tae Oh Kyo-moon
2	Italy	Matteo Bisiani Ilario Di Buò Michele Frangilli
3	United States	Butch Johnson Rodney White Vic Wunderle
4th	Russia	Balschinima Zyrempilow Yuri Leontjew Bair Badjonow
5	Turkey	Hasan Orbay Serdar Satir Ozdemir Akbal
6th	Sweden	Magnus Petersson Niklas Eriksson Mattias Eriksson
7th	Kazakhstan	Vadim Sjikarev Stanislav Zabrodski Alexander Li
8th	Ukraine	Sergej Antonov Igor Parchomenko Viktor Koertsjenko

Women

singles

space	country	Athlete
1	South Korea	Yun Mi-jin
2	South Korea	Kim Nam-soon
3	South Korea	Kim Soo-nyung
4th	North Korea	Choe Ok-sil
5	Japan	Sayoko Kawauchi
6th	Russia	Natalia Bolotova
7th	Italy	Natalia Valeeva
8th	Poland	Joanna Nowicka

In the women's race, Barbara Mensing , Cornelia Pfohl and Sandra Sachse started for Germany . While the tournament was over for Sandra Sachse, ranked 54th, after the first elimination round, the other two German starters reached the second elimination round. In the second elimination round, the Olympic individual tournament ended for Mensing, with rank 29, and Pfohl, with margin 25. As with the men, the NOCs from Austria and Switzerland did not have any starting places for the tournament.

team

space	country	Athlete
1	South Korea	Kim Nam-soon Kim Soo-nyung Yun Mi-jin
2	Ukraine	Natalija Burdejna Olena Sadownytscha Kateryna Serdyuk
3	Germany	Barbara Mensing Cornelia Pfohl Sandra Sachse
4th	Turkey	Elif Altınkaynak Zekiye Satır Natalia Nasaridze
5	United States	Karen Scavotto Denise Parker Janet Dykman
6th	People's Republic of China	He Ying Yang Jianping Yu Hui
7th	Italy	Natalia Valeeva Cristina Ioriatti Irene Franchini
8th	Chinese Taipei	Wen Chia-ling Liu Pi-yu Lin Yi-yin

Medal table

Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	Total
1	South Korea	3	1	1	5
2	Australia	1	-	-	1
3	United States	-	1	1	2
4th	Italy	-	1	-	1
4th	Ukraine	-	1	-	1
6th	Germany	-	-	1	1
6th	Netherlands	-	-	1	1

See also

• List of Olympic champions in archery

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Games of the XXVII Olympiad - Official Results Book. (PDF; 491 kB) International Olympic Committee, August 21, 2004, accessed on July 14, 2014 (English).