Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's individual

Men's individual archery at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Hwarang Archery Field
Dates	September 27—30
Competitors	84 from 34 nations
Medalists
Jay Barrs   United States   Park Sung-soo   South Korea   Vladimir Yesheyev   Soviet Union

Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Individual		men		women
Team		men		women

The men's Individual was one of two events for men out of four total events in Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Preliminary round

Each archer shot a FITA round, consisting of 144 arrows split evenly between the distances of 90 metres, 70 metres, 50 metres, and 30 metres. The top 24 archers advanced to the 1/8 finals.

The United States, winners of the men's gold medal every year they had competed, advanced all of their archers. Korea also had all three archers qualify for the next round. Finland, Japan, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union each had two archers advance. All three medallists from 1984 moved on to the next round.

1/8 final

Each archer shot one quarter of a FITA round, with the 36 arrows split evenly between the distances of 90 metres, 70 metres, 50 metres, and 30 metres. The top 18 archers advanced to the quarterfinal.

Korea and the United States again advanced all three archers. Finland and Japan were the nations having two archers qualify. The three medallists from 1984 continued to compete, though Darrell Pace of the United States, gold medallist in Los Angeles, only barely managed to take 18th place to advance.

Quarterfinal

Each archer shot one quarter of a FITA round, with the 36 arrows split evenly between the distances of 90 metres, 70 metres, 50 metres, and 30 metres. The top 12 archers advanced to the semifinal.

Once again, the six Korean and American archers advanced, along with two Finnish archers. Pace, who won gold four years earlier, sprang from near-elimination in the 1/8 final to first place in the quarterfinal. It was bronze medal defender Hiroshi Yamamoto that barely escaped elimination in this round.

Semifinal

Each archer shot one quarter of a FITA round, with the 36 arrows split evenly between the distances of 90 metres, 70 metres, 50 metres, and 30 metres. The top 8 archers advanced to the final.

One archer from each of the three nations with multiple archers fell in this round, leaving Korea and the United States with two archers advancing as Finland joined the Soviet Union, the Netherlands, and Japan in qualifying one archer for the final. Pace, the defending gold medallist, missed the cut by one place. Yamamoto, the defending silver medallist, avoided that fate by shooting two points better than Pace to place eighth.

Final

The top three archers in the final earned medals. Each archer shot one quarter of a FITA round, with the 36 arrows split evenly between the distances of 90 metres, 70 metres, 50 metres, and 30 metres.

The United States and Korea, having vied for dominance throughout the competition, won a gold and silver medal, respectively. This continued the American men's streak of winning a gold medal in every men's archery competition in which they had taken part. The Soviet Union also earned a medal. McKinney and Yamamoto, the remaining defending medallists, placed only 6th and 8th, respectively.

Result

Rank	Name	Nation	Open round	Rank	Eighth final	Rank	Quarter final	Rank	Semi final	Rank	Grand final
	Jay Barrs	United States	1294	3	313	13	326	4	334	2	338
	Park Sung-soo	South Korea	1303	2	322	4	324	5	329	4	336
	Vladimir Yesheyev	Soviet Union	1304	1	313	14	320	9	328	5	335
4	Chun In-soo	South Korea	1284	6	326	2	323	6	334	1	331
5	Martinus Reniers	Netherlands	1286	5	328	1	328	2	324	8	327
6	Richard McKinney	United States	1288	4	321	6	327	3	332	3	324
7	Pentti Vikstrom	Finland	1273	13	312	15	320	10	324	7	323
8	Hiroshi Yamamoto	Japan	1271	14	316	7	318	12	324	6	321
9	Darrell Pace	United States	1257	19	306	18	329	1	322	9
10	Lee Han-sup	South Korea	1275	12	314	10	320	11	321	10
11	Tomi Poikolainen	Finland	1278	9	315	9	323	7	321	11
12	Detlef Kahlert	West Germany	1254	20	307	17	321	8	311	12
13	Ilario Di Buò	Italy	1251	21	322	5	317	13
14	Takayoshi Matsushita	Japan	1266	15	311	16	316	14
15	Göran Bjerendal	Sweden	1280	8	315	8	316	15
16	Simon Fairweather	Australia	1276	11	322	3	316	16
17	Paul Vermeiren	Belgium	1250	22	313	12	309	17
18	Leroy Watson	Great Britain	1248	24	314	11	304	18
19	Olivier Heck	France	1277	10	306	19
20	Kostiantyn Shkolniy	Soviet Union	1250	23	304	20
21	Steven Hallard	Great Britain	1283	7	303	21
22	Vedat Erbay	Turkey	1257	18	302	22
23	Henrik Toft	Denmark	1263	17	295	23
24	John McDonald	Canada	1263	16	292	24
25	Jan Jacobsen	Denmark	1248	25
26	José Anchondo	Mexico	1248	26
27	Ismo Falck	Finland	1246	27
28	Andrea Parenti	Italy	1245	28
29	Juri Leontiev	Soviet Union	1245	29
30	Mats Nordlander	Sweden	1243	30
31	Hu Pei-Wen	Chinese Taipei	1243	31
32	Antonio Vázquez	Spain	1239	32
33	Giancarlo Ferrari	Italy	1237	33
34	Kerem Ersu	Turkey	1237	34
35	Gert Bjerendal	Sweden	1236	35
36	Sanjeeva Singh	India	1233	36
37	Thierry Venant	France	1233	37
38	Omar Bustani	Mexico	1232	38
39	Limba Ram	India	1232	39
40	Terushi Furuhashi	Japan	1229	40
41	Christopher Blake	Australia	1228	41
42	Yen Man-Sung	Chinese Taipei	1227	42
43	Renato Emilio	Brazil	1225	43
44	Patrick de Koning	Belgium	1225	44
45	Chiu Ping-kun	Chinese Taipei	1223	45
46	Duoji Qiuyun	China	1220	46
47	Liang Qiuzhong	China	1220	47
48	Syafrudin Mawi	Indonesia	1219	48
49	Adolfo González	Mexico	1215	49
50	Manuel Jiménez	Spain	1215	50
51	Daniel Desnoyers	Canada	1215	51
52	Juan Holgado	Spain	1210	52
53	Francis Notenboom	Belgium	1209	53
54	Manfred Barth	West Germany	1206	54
55	Ru Guang	China	1204	55
56	Niels Gammelgaard	Denmark	1203	56
57	Richard Priestman	Great Britain	1202	57
58	Denis Canuel	Canada	1201	58
59	Bernhard Schulkowski	West Germany	1199	59
60	Paul Bamber	Zimbabwe	1197	60
61	Izzet Avci	Turkey	1192	61
62	Jorge Azevedo	Brazil	1191	62
63	Rodney Wagner	Australia	1184	63
64	Claude Franclet	France	1181	64
65	Gilles Cresto	Monaco	1180	65
66	Carlos Reis	Portugal	1176	66
67	Miguel Pedraza	Puerto Rico	1172	67
68	Rowel Merto	Philippines	1162	68
69	Joseph Malone	Ireland	1162	69
70	Rui Santos	Portugal	1160	70
71	Shyam Lal Meena	India	1150	71
72	Alan Bryant	Zimbabwe	1149	72
73	Thinley Dorji	Bhutan	1144	73
74	Noel Lynch	Ireland	1141	74
75	Claudio Pafundi	Argentina	1126	75
76	Pema Tshering	Bhutan	1124	76
77	Fok Ming Shan	Hong Kong	1108	77
78	Wrex Tarr	Zimbabwe	1092	78
79	Lai Chi Hung	Hong Kong	1079	79
80	Jigme Tshering	Bhutan	1070	80
81	Angel Bello	Argentina	1017	81
82	Sameer Jawdat	Saudi Arabia	964	82
83	Adel Aljabrin	Saudi Arabia	921	83
84	Derrick Tenai	Solomon Islands	505	84

References

• Official Olympic Report