Archery at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's team

Women's team; at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
	View of Lord's Cricket Ground during a first round match between Denmark and India
Venue	Lord's Cricket Ground
Dates	27–29 July
Competitors	36 from 12 nations
Medalists

The women's team archery competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 27 to 29 July at Lord's Cricket Ground.^[1]

The gold medal was won by South Korea. This was the third consecutive Olympics that China lost to South Korea in the final. Japan won the bronze medal over Russia.

Competition format

The teams were ranked 1st to 12th based on the three team members' ranking round results and this was used to seed the teams into a head-to-head knockout bracket.^[2] Each member of the team shot eight arrows in a match (for a total of 24 arrows per team) and the team with the highest total won the match. The winner advanced to the next round while the loser was eliminated from the competition.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).

Date	Time	Round
Friday, 27 July 2012	13:00–15:00	Ranking round
Sunday, 29 July 2012	09:00–10:40	Round of 16
Sunday, 29 July 2012	15:00–16:40	Quarter-finals
Sunday, 29 July 2012	16:40–17:30	Semi-finals
Sunday, 29 July 2012	17:31–18:26	Final

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

216 arrow ranking round

World record	South Korea Park Sung-Hyun, Lee Sung-Jin, Yun Mi-Jin	2030^[3]	Athens, Greece	12 August 2004
Olympic record	South Korea Park Sung-Hyun, Yun Ok-Hee, Joo Hyun-Jung	2004	Beijing, China	9 August 2008

24 arrow match

World record	South Korea Park Sung-Hyun, Yun Ok-Hee, Joo Hyun-Jung	231	Beijing, China	10 August 2008
Olympic record	South Korea Park Sung-Hyun, Yun Ok-Hee, Joo Hyun-Jung	231	Beijing, China	10 August 2008

Results

Ranking round

Rank^[4]	Nation	Archer	Score	10s	Xs
1	South Korea	Lee Sung-Jin Ki Bo-Bae Choi Hyeonju	1993	84	26
2	United States	Miranda Leek Khatuna Lorig Jennifer Nichols	1979	83	19
3	Chinese Taipei	Le Chien-Ying Lin Chia-En Tan Ya-Ting	1976	76	20
4	Mexico	Mariana Avitia Aída Román Alejandra Valencia	1974	72	21
5	Japan	Kaori Kawanaka Ren Hayakawa Miki Kanie	1965	79	23
6	Russia	Ksenia Perova Kristina Timofeeva Inna Stepanova	1962	82	22
7	China	Fang Yuting Cheng Ming Xu Jing	1946	70	19
8	Denmark	Louise Laursen Maja Jager Carina Christiansen	1946	65	16
9	India	Bombayala Devi Deepika Kumari Chekrovolu Swuro	1938	64	21
10	Italy	Pia Carmen Lionetti Natalia Valeeva Jessica Tomasi	1937	68	20
11	Great Britain	Naomi Folkard Amy Oliver Alison Williamson	1874	50	15
12	Ukraine	Tetyana Dorokhova Kateryna Palekha Lidiia Sichenikova	1868	44	15

Competition bracket

First round			Quarter-finals			Semi-finals				Final


			1	South Korea (KOR)	206

			8	Denmark (DEN)	195
8	Denmark (DEN)	211

9	India (IND)	210
						1	South Korea (KOR)	221

						5	Japan (JPN)	206
5	Japan (JPN)	207

12	Ukraine (UKR)	192
			5	Japan (JPN)	219

			4	Mexico (MEX)	209



										1	South Korea (KOR)	210

										7	China (CHN)	209



			3	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	216²⁶				Third place

			6	Russia (RUS)	216²⁸
11	Great Britain (GBR)	208								5	Japan (JPN)	209

6	Russia (RUS)	215								6	Russia (RUS)	207
						6	Russia (RUS)	207

						7	China (CHN)	208
7	China (CHN)	200

10	Italy (ITA)	199
			7	China (CHN)	218

			2	United States (USA)	213

References

↑ Archery at the 2012 Summer Olympics
↑ "Team competition format". London 2012 Organising Committee. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
↑ This result is not recognized by the International Olympic Committee as an Olympic record, as the ranking round took place on 12 August, before the 2004 opening ceremony.
↑ "Archery: Results & Schedules".

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[1] Archery at the 2012 Summer Olympics

[format-2] "Team competition format". London 2012 Organising Committee. Retrieved 13 June 2012.

[3] This result is not recognized by the International Olympic Committee as an Olympic record, as the ranking round took place on 12 August, before the 2004 opening ceremony.

[4] "Archery: Results & Schedules".