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August
09, 2008
The
world's top archers battled it out at the Beijing Olympic Green Archery
Field from August 9 to 15, 2008. The archery competition consisted of four
events, including men's and women's individual and team categories.
The preliminary
round of the Olympic archery competition has begun on Saturday August
9, 2008 with all 128 archers in contention; 64 women from 35
countries competed in the first session 12:00-2:00 p.m. local time
and 64 men from 37 countries in the second session 3:00-5:00 p.m.
The
ranking round consisted of 72 arrows shot in 12 ends of six arrows at a
distance of 70 meters on a 122cm target face. A perfect score is 720. The
shooting time limit has been four minutes for each end of six arrows.
From
the scores shot in the ranking round, archers
has been ranked 1-64 and teams has been ranked 1-16. Then the 64 ranked
archers entered the elimination round,
where No 1 was matched against No 64, No 2 against No 63, and so on. The
Women's Team elimination rounds has begun Sunday, August 10, 2008.
Source:
Beijing 2008 |
