Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's individual

Section 2

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Medal matches

Bronze medal match
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Event summary

Round of 64
In the first round of elimination on 15 August, archers competed head-to-head. Each fired six ends of three arrows. Winners advanced to the round of 32, while losers received a final ranking between 33 and 64 based on their score in the round. Sayami Matsushita

Sayami Matsushita

is an athlete from Japan. She competes in archery.Matsushita represented Japan at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 35th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 624. In the first round of elimination, she faced 30th-ranked Alexandra Fouace of France. Matsushita...

had the highest score of the round with 165.

The first big surprise of the round came when Tshering Chhoden

Tshering Chhoden

Tshering Chhoden is an athlete from Bhutan. She competes in archery.Chhoden represented Bhutan at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympic Games. In 2004 she placed 54th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 600. In the first round of elimination, she faced 11th-ranked Lin...

of Bhutan

Bhutan

Bhutan , officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked state in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalayas and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by the People's Republic of China...

, who had been ranked 54th, defeated 11th-ranked Lin Sang

Lin Sang

Lin Sang is an archer from the People's Republic of China.Lin represented China at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 11th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 647. In the first round of elimination, she faced 54th-ranked Tshering Chhoden of Bhutan...

of China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

. This set Chhoden up for a round of 32 match with 43rd-ranked Reena Kumari

Reena Kumari

Reena Kumari is an athlete from India who competes in archery.Kumari represented India at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 43rd in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 620. In the first round of elimination, she faced 22nd-ranked Kristine Esebua of Georgia...

of India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, who had also won in an upset. One archer from the top ten, Natalia Valeeva

Natalia Valeeva

Natalia Valeeva is a naturalized Italian archer.Natalia Valeeva is the top female archer in Italy. She is a five-time Olympian, and a native of Moldova, having represented the Unified Team, Moldova and Italy, at the Olympic Games of 1992, 96, 00, 04 and 08...

of Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

, lost in the first round, to 56th-ranked Jasmin Figueroa

Jasmin Figueroa

Jasmin Lanaran Figueroa is an athlete from the Philippines. She competes in archery....

of the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

.

Perhaps the most exciting match of the day was between Małgorzata Sobieraj and Thin Thin Khaing

Thin Thin Khaing

Thin Thin Khaing born 4 May 1978) is an athlete from Burma. She competes in archery.Thin represented Myanmar at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 38th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 622. In the first round of elimination, she faced 27th-ranked Małgorzata...

, who tied with 151. Each archer shot a 9 on the first tie-breaking arrow and another 9 on the second. When the third tie-breaker resulted in an 8 for each archer, it was not possible to separate the two archers, even by measuring the distance to the centre of the target. It was only the second time in Olympic history http://www.archery-gp.de/athens2004/press/press040815_01.htm that a fourth arrow was required to separate two archers, the first having been in Atlanta. Sobieraj's fourth arrow was better, giving her the win.

Round of 32
Held on 17 August, the second round of elimination, like the first, was a head-to-head competition in which each archer fired six ends of three arrows. Winners advanced to the round of 16, while losers received a final rank between 17 and 32 based on their scores in the round. Yun Mi-Jin

Yun Mi-Jin

Yun Mi-Jin is an archer from South Korea who has won three Olympic gold medals. She holds the Olympic record for a women's 18-arrow match, at 173 out of a possible 180...

of Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

scored 173 in the round, tying the Olympic record she set at the 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

.

52nd-ranked Kirstin Jean Lewis

Kirstin Jean Lewis

Kirstin Jean Lewis is a South African archer. She represented South Africa at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.In 2004 she placed 52nd in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 606. In the first round of elimination, she faced 13th-ranked Dola Banerjee of India...

pulled off her second upset of the tournament, defeating 20th-ranked Sumangala Sharma

Sumangala Sharma

Sumangala Sharma is an athlete from India. She competes in archery.Sharma represented India at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 20th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 638. In the first round of elimination, she faced 45th-ranked Chen Li Ju of Chinese Taipei...

to become the lowest ranked archer to advance. Jennifer Nichols

Jennifer Nichols

Jennifer Nichols is an archer from the United States.Nichols started archery when she was twelve years old. At fifteen, she won the National Youth Archery Competition.-2004 Summer Olympics:...

, ranked 19th, was the only other archer to win an upset, against 14th-ranked Tetyana Berezhna

Tetyana Berezhna

Tetyana Berezhna is an archer from Ukraine.Berezhna represented Ukraine at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 14th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 640. In the first round of elimination, she faced 51st-ranked Fotini Vavatsi of Greece...

. 4th-ranked He Ying

He Ying

He Ying is an archer from the People's Republic of China who has competed at three Summer Olympics.In 1996 Atlanta Olympics He won the silver in the women's individual event. She competed again in 2000 in Sydney but did not win a medal....

, however, nearly became the third upset victim and the only top ten archer of the day to fall when Melissa Jennison

Melissa Jennison

Melissa Jennison is an athlete from Australia. She competes in archery.Jennison represented Australia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. In 2004, she placed 29th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 628...

forced a tie-breaker that He won 9-8. Tshering Chhoden

Tshering Chhoden

, who had won a major upset in the first round, nearly pulled off another, forcing Reena Kumari

Reena Kumari

into a tie-breaker, which Kumari won.

Round of 16
The third round of elimination, on 18 August, was the final one that used the 18 arrow match. Winners advanced to the quarterfinals, while the losers received final rankings between 9 and 16 depending on their score in the round. Park Sung Hyun

Park Sung Hyun

Park Sung-Hyun is a world champion archer from South Korea. She holds the women's world record for a 70m 72-arrow round, set at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, and won a gold medal with her team in both the 2004 and 2008 Olympics...

had the highest score of the round, as the three Koreans

South Korea

continued to win.

The Chinese

People's Republic of China

women were handed another defeat at the hands of Alison Williamson

Alison Williamson

Alison Jane Williamson is an athlete from Great Britain. She competes in archery.Williamson, who is a member of the Long Mynd Archers, has represented Great Britain at five Olympic Games, from 1992-2008....

of Great Britain

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

, who at 21st was the only archer not from the top ten to qualify for the quarterfinals. The archers from Chinese Taipei

Chinese Taipei

Chinese Taipei is the designated name used by the Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan, to participate in some international organizations and almost all sporting events, such as the Olympics, Paralympics, Asian Games and Asian Para Games...

both continued into the quarterfinals, as did Evangelia Psarra

Evangelia Psarra

Evangelia Psarra is an archer from Greece. She represented Greece at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics....

of Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

.

Quarterfinals
With 8 archers left, the quarterfinal matches on 18 August consisted of each archer firing four ends of three arrows. Winners advanced to the semifinals while the losers received final rankings between 5 and 8. The highest score of the round again was notched by Park Sung Hyun

Park Sung Hyun

, with 111 points.

Alison Williamson

Alison Williamson

continued a great run, defeating 4th-ranked He Ying

He Ying

to advance to the semifinals. He missed the target with two arrows, but would have needed to score perfect 10s on each of those arrows to even tie Williamson and force a tie-breaker. Park Sung Hyun

Park Sung Hyun

easily defeated Evangelia Psarra

Evangelia Psarra

Evangelia Psarra is an archer from Greece. She represented Greece at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics....

, scoring no less than 27 in any end of three arrows. In two matches between Korea

South Korea

n archers and archers from Chinese Taipei

Chinese Taipei

, Yun Mi-Jin

Yun Mi-Jin

Yun Mi-Jin is an archer from South Korea who has won three Olympic gold medals. She holds the Olympic record for a women's 18-arrow match, at 173 out of a possible 180...

was the only Korean to lose so far in the women's competition, falling to Yuan Shu Chi

Yuan Shu Chi

Yuan Shu Chi is an athlete from the Republic of China. She competes in archery.-2004 Summer Olympics:Yuan represented the Republic of China at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 6th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 658. In the first round of elimination, she...

. Lee Sung Jin

Lee Sung Jin

Lee Sung-Jin is an archer from South Korea.Lee represented Korea at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 2nd in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 675. In the first round of elimination, she faced 63rd-ranked Lamia Bahnasawy of Egypt. Lee defeated Bahnasawy 164-127...

, however, was able to come from behind to defeat Wu Hui Ju

Wu Hui Ju

Wu Hui-ju is an athlete from Republic of China. She competes in archery.-2004 Summer Olympics:Wu represented the Republic of China at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 10th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 649. In the first round of elimination, she faced...

to keep Korea in contention for two medals.

Semifinals
With only four archers left, the semifinals featured 12-arrow matches. The two winners faced each other in the gold medal match, while the losers of the semifinals faced off for the bronze medal. For the third round in a row, Park Sung Hyun

Park Sung Hyun

posted the high score, this time with a 110.

Lee Sung Jin

Lee Sung Jin

and Yuan Shu Chi

Yuan Shu Chi

were the first two archers to compete. The first end resulted in a tie at 27. Lee began to pull away in the second end, scoring 26 to Shu's 24. In each of the third and fourth ends, Lee increased his lead, finishing with a safe 6 point victory to advance to the final. Park and Alison Williamson

Alison Williamson

were next. Williamson's surprising run for gold came to a crash, as Park continued to be nearly perfect. Once again, Park did not score lower than 27 in any end of three arrows, dominating each end and advancing to face fellow Korean Lee in the finals.

Bronze medal match
The bronze medal match pitted Yuan Shu Chi

Yuan Shu Chi

, who had started with a 6th place in the ranking round, against Alison Williamson

Alison Williamson

, who had started at 21st. Each archer fired four ends of three arrows, with the winner receiving a bronze medal while the loser would go home with a 4th place finish and no medal.

The first end was a good one for both archers, with Yuan scoring a 10 and two 9s while Williamson matched the score with two 10s and an 8. Yuan kept up the pace with another 28 in the second end, as Williamson faltered slightly and dropped 3 points behind with a 25. Williamson caught up in the third end, however, with a 27 to Yuan's 25. Yuan took the lead again with the first arrow of the last end, but again Williamson brought it back to a tie with the second arrow. With the score tied and one arrow remaining, Williamson shot an 8 to Yuan's 7, claiming the bronze medal.

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Final
The women's gold medal match pitted two Koreans

South Korea

against each other. The two had dominated the competition from the beginning, with Park Sung Hyun

Park Sung Hyun

placing 1st in the ranking round and Lee Sung Jin

Lee Sung Jin

placing 2nd.

In the first end, Park shot a rare 26, breaking a long string of ends no lower than 27. Lee matched the score, then hit a perfect 30 in the second end. Park returned to form in the second end with a 27, but this still left her 3 points behind. Park continued to build on her scores with a 28 in the third end, bringing the match to 2 points when Lee shot a 27. The fourth end was Park's best of the match while it was Lee's worst, as Park reversed the deficit with a 29-25 final end to take the gold, 110-108. Lee received a silver medal.

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