The individual archery competition for women at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held from August 5 to August 11, 2016 in the Sambodromo . 64 athletes from 40 countries took part in the competition.
One athlete each from Germany and Austria took part in this competition. The German Lisa Unruh won the silver medal. In contrast, the Austrian Laurence Baldauff was eliminated in the first elimination round . No athletes from Switzerland or Liechtenstein took part in the competition.
In the final, Chang Hye-jin from South Korea defeated the German Lisa Unruh . In the duel for the bronze medal, the defending champion Ki Bo-bae was able to prevail against the Mexican Alejandra Valencia , who had to be satisfied with the ungrateful fourth place.
The individual archery competition is divided into two sections. The first part is the placement round, which forms the basis for the subsequent knockout round . Each shooter has a total of 72 arrows and shoots at the target. All points are added together and the ranking list is created using this. Records can also be set in this part of the competition and before the 2016 Summer Olympics the following records were current:
The second part is the elimination round, which is carried out in the knockout system. Four groups are formed. The pairings of the archers resulted from the previous placement round, the first placed against the archer in 64th place, the second placed against the archer in 63rd place and so on. Each shooter shot a series of three arrows. The winner of the series received two points and one point if there was a tie. A maximum of five series were shot. The shooter, who first scored six points, moved into the second round, then into the eighth, quarter and semi-finals, as well as the final or the duel for the bronze medal. If it was still a draw after five series, a decisive shot was fired that decided between victory and defeat.
With the Olympic victory, Chang Hye-jin was able to win her first major international title. After the silver medal at the Asian Games in 2014, it was only her second individual medal. The German Lisa Unruh was able to win the first medal in archery for the DOSB . Ki Bo-bae missed her first Olympic title defense in archery due to the semi-final defeat against the later Olympic champion .