The men's individual archery competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 27 July to 3 August at Lord's Cricket Ground.

Oh Jin-Hyek of South Korea won the gold medal, followed by Takaharu Furukawa from Japan with silver and Dai Xiaoxiang, representing China, with the bronze.

Competition format The competitors were ranked 1st to 64th based on their ranking round results and seeded into a head-to-head knockout bracket based on this ranking. The 2012 Olympics introduced a new format for the knockout rounds. Each head-to-head match was a best-of-five sets match where each competitor shot three arrows per set. Competitors received two points for winning the set and one point for a draw, with the first competitor to reach six points winning 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 RoundFriday, 27 July 2012 09:00–11:00 Ranking roundMonday, 30 July 2012Tuesday, 31 July 2012Wednesday, 1 August 2012 09:00–12:5515:00–17:40 Round of 64, Round of 32Friday, 3 August 2012 09:00–10:45 Round of 16Friday, 3 August 2012 14:00–14:52 Quarter-finalsFriday, 3 August 2012 14:52–15:05 Semi-finalsFriday, 3 August 2012 15:21–15:50 Finals

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. Im Dong-Hyun broke both records.Men's Individual Records .

72 arrow ranking round

NB: Im Dong-Hyun broke the world record at the 2004 Olympics with a score of 687. It was not recognized by the International Olympic Committee as an Olympic record because the ranking round took place on 12 August, before the 2004 opening ceremony. Im's 2012 ranking round score is recognized as an Olympic record, despite having been shot before the opening ceremony.

Results

Ranking round RankArcherNationScore10sXs 1 Im Dong-Hyun 699 (WR)51The LOCOG website lists Im's 10s at 50 (which would not be possible, in order for the overall score to result in 699. However, the World Archery results tracker, which provides the results of every arrow, shows 51 10s and 21 9s. This provides the correct total score of 699.22 2 Kim Bub-Min 698 5026 3 Oh Jin-Hyek 690 4527 4 Larry Godfrey 680 369 5 Takaharu Furukawa 679 3710 6 Gaël Prevost 679 3213 7 Dai Xiaoxiang 678 3512 8 Crispin Duenas 678 3511 9 Romain Girouille 677 3412 10 Brady Ellison 676 3316 11 Mauro Nespoli 674 3314 12 Jacob Wukie 673 3311 13 Xing Yu 673 3213 14 Rafał Dobrowolski 672 3313 15 Yu Ishizu 671 358 16 Rick van der Ven 671 2714 17 Denis Gankin 670 3412 18 Jake Kaminski 670 339 19 Jantsangiin Gantögs 669 3114 20 Khairul Anuar Mohamad 669 3010 21 Bård Nesteng 669 276 22 Liu Zhaowu 668 3312 23 Taylor Worth 668 2812 24 Markiyan Ivashko 667 3412 25 Elías Malavé 666 339 26 Eduardo Vélez 665 3113 27 Thomas Faucheron 665 2911 28 Dmytro Hrachov 665 2811 29 Juan René Serrano 665 287 30 Luis Álvarez 665 268 31 Tarundeep Rai 664 2912 32 Daniel Pineda 664 2910 33 Wang Cheng-pang 663 3112 34 Juan Carlos Stevens 663 287 35 Yavor Hristov 663 2610 36 Marco Galiazzo 662 288 37 Michele Frangilli 662 288 38 Witthaya Thamwong 662 267 39 Milad Vaziri 662 236 40 Kuo Cheng-wei 660 3110 41 Elías Cuesta 660 295 42 Alan Wills 660 293 43 Viktor Ruban 660 2610 44 Hideki Kikuchi 659 2710 45 Cheng Chu Sian 658 267 46 Rahul Banerjee 655 208 47 Dan Olaru 654 273 48 Haziq Kamaruddin 654 2311 49 Jeff Henckels 654 2210 50 Simon Terry 654 218 51 Daniel Xavier 653 257 52 Camilo Mayr 653 249 53 Jayanta Talukdar 650 226 54 Chen Yu-Cheng 649 237 55 Mark Javier 649 227 56 Nay Myo Aung 646 197 57 Ahmed El-Nemr 644 216 58 Klemen Štrajhar 639 218 59 Philippe Kouassi 638 197 60 Lee Kar Wai 637 207 61 Mohammed Milon 636 217 62 Axel Müller 633 185 63 Rob Elder 615 124 64 Emanuele Guidi 589 105

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