Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Archery at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Hwarang Archery Field
Dates	27 September – 1 October 1988
No. of events	4 (2 men, 2 women)
Competitors	146 from 41 nations
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Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Events Individual men women Team men women v t e

Four events were contested in archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. These events included team competitions for the first time in modern Olympic archery. Men's and women's individual competitions continued to be part of the schedule as well.^[1]

The format for the individual competition was altered for the first time since the 1972 Summer Olympics. In Seoul, instead of all archers using the double FITA round to determine rankings, a sort of elimination plan was introduced. Each archer shot a single FITA round to determine initial rankings. Most archers were cut from the competition after this, with only 24 advancing. These archers then shot one-fourth the number of arrows normal for a FITA round, with these scores being used to drop more archers. This process was repeated until only 8 archers finished the fourth segment of the second round.