Archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's team

The men's team was an archery event held as part of the archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics programme.^[1]

Men's team at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
The Sydney International Archery Park, where the event took place
Venue	Sydney International Archery Park
Date	16–22 September
Competitors	42 from 14 nations
Medalists
Jang Yong-Ho Kim Chung-tae Oh Kyo-Moon  South Korea Matteo Bisiani Ilario Di Buò Michele Frangilli  Italy Butch Johnson Rod White Vic Wunderle  United States
← 1996 2004 →

A total of 14 teams competed in the third appearance of the Olympic team round archery event. The ranking round, which determined the seeds for all teams, doubled as the ranking round for the individual competition and was held on 16 September 2000. Each archer shot 72 arrows, and the scores of the three archers for each team were summed to give a team ranking round score. A single-elimination head-to-head tournament was held on 22 September. During each round of competition, each archer shot nine arrows for a team score based on 27 arrows. The losers of the semifinals faced off in a bronze medal match, while teams defeated before then were assigned rankings within the group of other teams defeated in their round based on their score in that round.

The South Korean team, which had swept the top three places in the ranking round but had seen each of its members suffer upsets in the individual knock-out rounds, won by comfortable margins in the team knock-out rounds to take the gold medal. The trio set a new world record for a 27-arrow team match in the quarterfinals, with a score of 258 of a possible 270.^[2] Italy and Russia each managed to defeat two higher-seeded teams before falling to the Koreans; this gave Italy the silver medal and put Russia in the bronze medal match against the United States. The Russians forced the first Olympic team match tiebreaker against the Americans in that match, losing 29-26 in that tiebreaker.

Ranking round

The ranking for the men's teams was determined by summing the ranking round scores of the three members.

Rank	Nation	Archer	Score
1	South Korea (KOR)	Jang Yong-Ho Kim Chung-tae Oh Kyo-Moon	1980
2	United States (USA)	Butch Johnson Rod White Vic Wunderle	1921
3	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	Aleksandr Li Vadim Shikarev Stanislav Zabrodsky	1916
4	Turkey (TUR)	Özdemir Akbal Hasan Orbay Serdar Şatır	1899
5	Netherlands (NED)	Wietse van Alten Fred van Zutphen Henk Vogels	1899
6	Italy (ITA)	Matteo Bisiani Ilario Di Buò Michele Frangilli	1895
7	Sweden (SWE)	Mattias Eriksson Niklas Eriksson Magnus Petersson	1891
8	China (CHN)	Fu Shengjun Tang Hua Yang Bo	1886
9	Ukraine (UKR)	Serhiy Antonov Viktor Kurchenko Ihor Parkhomenko	1878
10	Australia (AUS)	Simon Fairweather Matthew Gray Scott Hunter-Russell	1876
11	France (FRA)	Sébastien Flute Jocelyn de Grandis Lionel Torres	1874
12	Russia (RUS)	Bair Badënov Yuri Leontiev Balzhinima Tsyrempilov	1870
13	Japan (JPN)	Yuji Hamano Masafumi Makiyama Takayoshi Matsushita	1841
14	Norway (NOR)	Martinus Grov Lars Erik Humlekjær Bård Nesteng	1839

Knockout stage

	Round of 16					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Final
						1	South Korea (KOR)	258
	9	Ukraine (UKR)	244			9	Ukraine (UKR)	236
	8	China (CHN)	235								1	South Korea (KOR)	240
	12	Russia (RUS)	248								12	Russia (RUS)	229
	5	Netherlands (NED)	241			12	Russia (RUS)	247
	4	Turkey (TUR)	253			4	Turkey (TUR)	245
	13	Japan (JPN)	231													1	South Korea (KOR)	255
	3	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	246													6	Italy (ITA)	247
	14	Norway (NOR)	241			3	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	244
	6	Italy (ITA)	250			6	Italy (ITA)	249
	11	France (FRA)	239								6	Italy (ITA)	244			Bronze medal match
	7	Sweden (SWE)	241								2	United States (USA)	241
	10	Australia (AUS)	238			7	Sweden (SWE)	244								2	United States (USA)	23929
						2	United States (USA)	255								12	Russia (RUS)	23926

In the first team round tie-breaker in Olympic archery history, the United States won the bronze medal, defeating Russia by shooting a near-perfect 29 to the Russians' 26.

References

1. "Archery at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Team". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
2. Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad, Volume 3: Results (PDF) (in English and French). pp. AR 81. ISBN 0-9579616-0-X. Archived from the original (CD-ROM) on 27 September 2007.

Sources

• Official Report
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 18 January 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2008.