After the first team completes its group, the second team shoots. Finally, both teams repeat the process for a second group. The team with the highest score receives two set points. If tied, each team receives a point. Like in the individual competition, the first team to six set points wins the match. The match consists of four ends of two arrows each for each archer. This means a total of 24 arrows are shot. The team has two minutes to shoot all six arrows. In the event of a tie, each team is allowed one minute for each team member to shoot an arrow.
The team with the highest total score is the winner. Archers must be at least 16 years old to compete in the Olympic Games. NOCs earn qualification spots in two ways, by team or by individual.
For each gender, an NOC can send three archers to compete with a team qualification spot. Each of those archers will also compete in the individual events. NOCs earning individual qualification spots are limited to a single archer in that event. There are a total of 12 team qualification spots for each gender.
The host nation automatically gets a spot, and the top eight teams from the World Archery Championships get slots.
An additional 28 individual qualification spots are up for grabs for each gender, bringing the total number of competitors in each individual event to Between five and eight of these spots are awarded at the World Archery Championships. Additional spots are awarded through continental qualifying tournaments, and at least three spots are allocated to a Final World Individual Qualification Tournament. Finally, three places for each gender are reserved for the Tripartite Commission invitations.
From until , the first elimination round would pit the first-ranked archer against the 64th, the second against the 63rd, and so on. Archers would simultaneously shoot 18 arrows in three-arrow ends. The archer with the highest score after 18 arrows would move on to the next round, while the loser would be eliminated.
During the quarterfinals, semifinals, and medal matches, called the finals rounds, things changed. Each archer would shoot 12 arrows, again in ends of three. Instead of shooting simultaneously, archers in the match would alternate by arrow.
The losers of the quarterfinals were eliminated, while the losers of the semifinals would compete against each other to determine the bronze medal and fourth place. The winners of the semifinals would face each other in the gold medal match, with the winner taking the gold and the loser earning the silver medal.
In , all matches were completed using the finals round format utilized from until , shooting arrow matches alternating by arrow. The ranking round is followed by the elimination rounds three rounds, followed by the quarterfinals and semifinals , and the bronze medal and gold medal matches.
These matches are decided using a "set system", where each archer shoots three arrows in the individual event. An archer receives two points for winning each set, and in case both competitors finish the set with equal scores, both receive one point each.
The first archer to win six points wins the match. If a match is tied on five points, then the winner is decided through a single arrow shoot-off, where the arrow that lands closest to bullseye wins. Team events comprise three archers of the same gender, while mixed team events comprise one archer from each gender.
The teams are seeded on the basis of the total scores of each athlete in the individual qualification round. After the first round, the teams advance to the quarterfinals. In regular team events, a team receives two points for winning a set, which comprises six arrows -- two arrows per archer in a team. Similarly, in mixed team events, a team receives two points for winning a set, which consists of four arrows, two arrows per archer. The first team to win five set points wins the match.
A shoot-off is conducted in case the competing teams are tied on four set points, wherein every archer in a team shoots one arrow each. The team with the higher total wins. In both recurve and compound events, the eliminations continue till there are four athletes remaining to compete in the semifinals.
From July 23 to July Archery was first included in the second edition of the Olympics in and in three later Games. Yet too many local variations led to archery being dropped from the Olympic programme. After the global body of archery was formed, the sport made a return to the Olympics at Munich in , with recurve events being the accepted form.
At present, 64 men and 64 women compete in the individual, team and mixed team archery programme at the Olympics. The team events were introduced in Before releasing each arrow, archers must calm their heart rate, increase their concentration and overcome their nerves.
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