Archery at the 2024 Summer Olympics facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Archery at the Games of the Olympiad
Archery pictogram for the 2024 Summer Olympics
Venue	Les Invalides
Dates	25 July – 4 August 2024
No. of events	5 (2 men, 2 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors	128 from 53 nations
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Archery is a sport where athletes shoot arrows at a target using a bow. The archery competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were held from July 25 to August 4, 2024. The events took place at Les Invalides, a famous historical site in Paris.

A total of 128 archers competed in five different events. There were events for men, women, and a special mixed team event. This mixed team event was also part of the previous Olympics in Tokyo.

How Athletes Qualified

To compete in the Olympics, archers had to earn a spot, called a quota place. The rules for qualifying were set by the International Olympic Committee and World Archery. These rules made sure that archers from many different countries had a chance to participate.

A total of 128 spots were available, with an equal number for men and women. Each country could send a maximum of six archers: three men and three women. If a country qualified a team, they could send three archers for that team.

Spots were earned at big international and continental competitions. For example, the 2023 World Championships in Berlin, Germany, offered many spots. Continental games like the European Games and Asian Games also provided qualification chances.

The host nation, France, automatically received three spots for men and three for women. They also got a spot for the mixed team event. A few extra spots were given out to countries that usually don't get to send many athletes to the Olympics. This helps make the Games more worldwide.

Competition Rules

There were five archery events at the Paris 2024 Olympics:

• Men's individual
• Women's individual
• Men's team
• Women's team
• Mixed team

All events used a type of bow called a recurve bow. The targets were placed 70 meters away from the archers. The competition started with a "ranking round" for all archers. In this round, each archer shot 72 arrows. Their scores decided their rank from 1st to 64th.

The ranking round also helped set up the team events. The scores of team members were added together to rank the teams. For the mixed team event, the best male and female scores from each country were combined. This helped decide which 16 mixed teams would compete.

After the ranking round, most events used a single-elimination tournament style. This means if an archer or team lost a match, they were out of the competition. However, the archers or teams who lost in the semifinals played one more match to decide who won the bronze medal.

Individual Events

Men's Individual Archery at the Les Invalides venue.

In the individual events, all 64 archers started in the first round. The archers were matched up based on their ranking round scores. For example, the archer ranked 1st shot against the archer ranked 64th.

Each match was played in a "best-of-five sets" format. In each set, archers shot three arrows. The archer with the higher score in a set got two points. If they tied, each archer got one point. The first archer to reach 6 points won the match. If the score was tied at 5-5 after five sets, they had a "shoot-off." Each archer shot one arrow, and the one closest to the center won.

Team Events

For the men's and women's team events, the top four teams from the ranking round went straight to the quarterfinals. The other eight teams (ranked 5th to 12th) played matches to see who would fill the remaining quarterfinal spots.

Team matches also used a set system, similar to individual events. However, each set had six arrows (two from each team member). Only four sets were played in total.

Mixed Team Event

The mixed team event was introduced at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The top 16 mixed teams from the ranking round competed in a single-elimination bracket. Like the other team events, each set involved two arrows per team member, making it four arrows per country in total. Four sets were played.

Competition Schedule

Participating Nations

Archers from 53 different countries (National Olympic Committees) qualified to compete in Paris.

Records Set

New records were set during the archery competitions at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Event	Round	Name	Nation	Score	Date	Record
Women's individual	Ranking round	Lim Si-hyeon	South Korea	694	25 July	WR
Women's team	Ranking round	Jeon Hun-young Lim Si-hyeon Nam Su-hyeon	South Korea	2046	25 July	OR
Mixed team	Ranking round	Kim Woo-jin Lim Si-hyeon	South Korea	1380	25 July	OR

Medal Summary

Medal Table

This table shows which countries won medals in archery.

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	5	1	1	7
2	France*	0	1	1	2
	United States	0	1	1	2
4	China	0	1	0	1
	Germany	0	1	0	1
6	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Turkey	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		5	5	5	15

Medalists

Here are the athletes who won medals in each archery event.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual details	Kim Woo-jin  South Korea	Brady Ellison  United States	Lee Woo-seok  South Korea
Men's team details	South Korea Kim Je-deok Kim Woo-jin Lee Woo-seok	France Baptiste Addis Thomas Chirault Jean-Charles Valladont	Turkey Mete Gazoz Berkim Tümer Abdullah Yıldırmış
Women's individual details	Lim Si-hyeon  South Korea	Nam Su-hyeon  South Korea	Lisa Barbelin  France
Women's team details	South Korea Jeon Hun-young Lim Si-hyeon Nam Su-hyeon	China An Qixuan Li Jiaman Yang Xiaolei	Mexico Ángela Ruiz Alejandra Valencia Ana Paula Vázquez
Mixed team details	South Korea Kim Woo-jin Lim Si-hyeon	Germany Florian Unruh Michelle Kroppen	United States Brady Ellison Casey Kaufhold

See Also

In Spanish: Tiro con arco en los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024 para niños

• Archery at the 2022 Asian Games
• Archery at the 2023 European Games
• Archery at the 2023 Pan American Games
• Archery at the 2024 Summer Paralympics