- Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's individual
The Men's individual archery event at the
2004 Summer Olympics was part of the archery programme. Its final was held onAugust 19 at thePanathinaiko Stadium .Medalists
Event summary
;Round of 64The first round of elimination, held on
16 August , narrowed the field from 64 archers to 32 in a standard single-elimination bracket. The loser of each match received a final rank between 33 and 64, depending on his score in the round. Each archer fired six ends of three arrows, for a total possible score of 180.Oleksandr Serdyuk ofUkraine had the highest score in the round, with 164.The first upset of the day belonged to 43rd-ranked
Vic Wunderle of theUnited States , who defeated 22nd-rankedMajhi Sawaiyan ofIndia . The United States were on the losing end of an even larger upset, though, whenButch Johnson lost toRon van der Hoff of theNetherlands . The biggest upset occurred when 52nd-rankedTashi Peljor ofBhutan defeated 13th-rankedJocelyn de Grandis ofFrance to become the lowest ranked archer to advance.;Round of 32As in the round of 64, archers who advanced to the round of 32 fired six ends of three arrows in the second round of elimination. This round, on
18 August , narrowed the field from 32 to 16 archers, with winners advancing and losers receiving a final rank between 17 and 32 depending on their score in the round.Im Dong-hyun of Korea scored the highest in the round, missing the Olympic record by 1 point with a score of 171. 48th-rankedSatyadev Prasad ofIndia was the lowest ranked archer to advance.Vic Wunderle of theUnited States continued to have success in head-to-head competition, eliminating 11th-rankedWang Cheng-pang ofChinese Taipei . In an astonishing match, 31st-ranked Laurence Godfrey,Great Britain eked out a victory over 2nd-rankedMagnus Petersson ofSweden . Two other top-ten-ranked archers fell when 27th-rankedXue Haifeng of China defeated 6th-rankedDmytro Hrachov ofUkraine and 25th-rankedHasse Pavia Lind lost toOleksandr Serdyuk . One of the Korean archers,Park Kyung-mo , nearly fell toKazakhstan iStanislav Zabrodskiy when Zabrodskiy tied Park through the first 18 arrows and scored a 10 on the first tie-break. Park also scored a 10, and followed it up with a second 10 which Zabrodskiy could not match. A tie-break was also needed in the match betweenViktor Ruban ofUkraine andWang Cheng-pang ofChinese Taipei , which Ruban won 9-8.;Round of 16The round of 16 was held on
19 August and followed the same 18-arrow format as the previous two rounds as it narrowed the field to eight quarterfinalists.;QuarterfinalsThe first round of 12-arrow matches was the quarterfinals on
19 August . Winners advanced to the semifinals while losers received a final rank between 5 and 8 depending on score in the quarterfinals. The high score of the round was notched byTim Cuddihy , with 112. In a see-saw battle,Marco Galiazzo took a lead overVic Wunderle in the third end. In a tense final end, Wunderle closed the gap. Galiazzo, needing an 8 to tie on the last arrow, shot a 9 to advance and end Wunderle's run. In a surprise, both of the remaining Korean archers fell to Hiroshi Yamamoto andTim Cuddihy in 1-point matches eliminating them from medal contention. Laurence Godfrey had the most decisive victory of the round, a still-close 2-point victory ofChen Szu Yuan .;SemifinalsYamamoto and Cuddihy both tied the
Olympic record for a 12-arrow match (set byOh Kyo-moon in1996 ) by tying their semifinal match at 115 on19 August . In the tie-breaker, Yamamoto shot first and hit a 10. Cuddihy was unable to match this, shooting a 9 to drop out of gold medal contention.;Bronze medal matchThe
bronze medal match was held on19 August as well. The winner received the bronze medal while the loser took fourth place. Cuddihy defeated Godfrey in a close match.;FinalThe gold medal match on
19 August pitted a first-time-Olympian Italian against a veteranJapan ese archer, with the favored Koreans being conspicuously absent. The match consisted of 12 arrows, with the winner taking gold and the loser receiving a silver medal.With a pair of 10s in the first end, Hiroshi Yamamoto took a quick lead of 1 point over
Marco Galiazzo . In the second end, Galiazzo missed perfection by only 1 point, scoring 29 to Yamamoto's 27 to reverse the lead. He hit another pair of 10s in the third end, increasing his lead to 2 points going into the final end. Galiazzo maintained the lead through the final three arrows, winning Italy's first Olympic gold medal in archery. Yamamoto's silver was his second Olympic medal, joining the bronze medal that he won in1984 .References
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