RANKING ROUND: THE FACTS
All 128 archers shot a qualifying round of 72 arrows at 70 metres in 12 ends of six arrows, which took around two hours to complete. The women’s ranking was held in the morning and the men’s in the afternoon (it alternates every Summer Games).
Three Olympic records were set and Korea were seeded first in all five events. In the morning session, An San broke the women’s Olympic record, which had stood for 25 years since Atlanta 1996, by seven points and led the Korean women to a new Olympic team record, too, with 2032.
For the first time since the quota system was introduced in 1996, there was a cut to eliminate athletes in the mixed team event after the qualifying round. Only 16 of the 29 eligible nations progressed to the brackets.