1988 in Archery - Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics, Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Men's Individual (Paperback)

Chapters: Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics, Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Men's Individual, Archery at the 1988 Summer Paralympics. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Four events were contested in archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. These events included team competitions for the first time in modern Olympic archery. Men's and women's individual competitions continued to be part of the schedule as well. The format for the individual competition was altered for the first time since the 1972 Summer Olympics. In Seoul, instead of all archers using the double FITA round to determine rankings, a sort of elimination plan was introduced. Each archer shot a single FITA round to determine initial rankings. Most archers were cut from the competition after this, with only 24 advancing. These archers then shot one-fourth the number of arrows normal for a FITA round, with these scores being used to drop more archers. This process was repeated until only 8 archers finished the fourth segment of the second round. Eventual medallists are highlighted in the color of their medal. 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. Eventual medallists are highlighted in the color of their medal. Each archer shot one quarter of a FITA round, with the 36 arrows split evenly between the distances of 90 met...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=340818