South Korea made a clean sweep of the gold medals at the Archery Olympics 2024. They finished with five golds, one silver, and one bronze medal. France and the United States won two medals each, a silver and a bronze.
South Korea has now become the most successful country in the archery Olympics. It has won 50 medals, including 32 gold, 10 silver, and 8 bronze in its 11 Olympics appearances.
These were the archery Olympics 2024 winners:
| Game Category | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Recurve Men | Kim Woo-jin (South Korea) | Brady Ellison (United States) | Lee Woo-seok (South Korea) |
| Recurve Women | Lim Si-hyeon (South Korea) | Nam Su-hyeon (South Korea) | Lisa Barbelin France) |
| Recurve Men Team | South Korea | France | Turkey |
| Recurve Women Team | South Korea | China | Mexico |
| Recurve Mixed Team | South Korea | Germany | United States |
Overview of the Events
The five archery events at the Pairs Olympics were: the men’s and women’s individual recurve, the men’s and women’s team recurve, and the mixed team recurve. All five events were recurve archery competitions, conducted according to World Archery regulations at a distance of 70 meters. Each event is conducted in a single-elimination tournament format, except for the semifinal runner-ups, who competed in the bronze medal match.
The individual events began with a ranking round, where each archer shot a maximum of 72 arrows. The scores from this round determined the seeding for the elimination rounds, with archers ranked from 1 to 64 based on their performance. The top seeds faced the lowest seeds in the first round of the knockout stage.
The top four seeded teams from the ranking round advanced directly to the quarterfinal stage in the team events. The other eight teams, seeded fifth to twelfth, competed against one another for the remaining quarterfinal spots. The team event utilizes the same Archery Olympic Round set system as the individual event; however, each set comprises six arrows (two arrows per team member), and only four sets are conducted.
In the mixed team event, the top 16 seeded teams from the ranking round participated in a single-elimination bracket. Like the men’s and women’s team events, the scoring system consists of two arrows per team member, totaling four arrows per National Olympic Committee (NOC) for the mixed team. A total of four sets were played.
Gold Medal Winners
Men’s Individual
Kim Woo-jin became the most successful South Korean Olympian after winning the gold medal in the individual event. He won following a tiebreaker against American archer Brady Ellison. This marked Kim’s fifth overall gold and his third Olympic gold. He also became the most successful Olympic archer in history.
Women’s Individual
South Korean archer Lim Si-hyeon made her Olympics debut in Paris and won the gold medal in the women’s individual event. She won gold in the team and mixed team events as well. Lim also set a world record in the preliminary round of the women’s individual event by scoring 694 out of a possible 720.
Men’s Team
The South Korean trio of Kim Je-deok, Kim Woo-jin, and Lee Woo-seok finished in first place in the qualifying round with a score of 2049. They went on to clinch the gold medal after defeating the French team.
Women’s Team
The South Korean team consisting of Jeon Hun-young, Lim Si-hyeon, and Nam Su-hyeon finished the ranking round in first place with a score of 2046, setting a new Olympic record. The previous best was set by another South Korean trio, An San, Jang Min-hee, and Kang Chae-young in Tokyo.
Jeon Hun-young, Lim Si-hyeon, and Nam Su-hyeon won the gold medal in the women’s team event in Paris after defeating China.
Mixed Team
The winners of the individual team event teamed up to participate in the mixed team event and went on to secure the gold medal. Kim Woo-jin and Lim Hyeon set an Olympic record with a score of 1380 in the ranking round. They defeated the German team of Florian Unruh and Michelle Kroppen in the final.
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Silver and Bronze Medalists
Men’s Individual
Brady Ellison from the United States finished in seventh place in the ranking round and went on to win the silver medal. Lee Woo-seok, another South Korean archer won the bronze medal after defeating Florian Unruh from Germany.
Women’s Individual
Nam Hyeon from South Korea won the silver medal in the individual event and finished second in the ranking round with a score of 688. South Korea had a chance to win all the medals in this event as another archer, Jeon Hun-young took on the French archer, Lisa Barbelin. However, Hun-young lost the bronze medal match and Barbelin finished with the medal.
Men’s Team
The French team consisting of Baptiste Addis, Thomas Chirault, and Jean-Charles Valladont won the silver medal in the team event. They lost the final against the South Korean team. Turkey’s Mete Gazoz, Berkim Tümer, and Abdullah Yıldırmış settled with the bronze medal after defeating the Chinese team.
Women’s Team
The Chinese trio of An Qixuan, Li Jiaman, and Yang Xiaolei finished with a silver after losing to South Korea in a shoot-out. The Mexican trio of Ángela Ruiz, Alejandra Valencia, and Ana Paula Vázquez defeated the Netherlands in the bronze medal match.
Mixed Team
Florian Unruh and Michelle Kroppen from Germany lost the final of the mixed team event against the South Korean team. In the bronze medal match, American archers Brady Ellison and Casey Kaufhold defeated the Indian team of Dhiraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat.
Prominent Figures Did Not Succeed in Making a Mark
Great Britain was one of the few teams that participated in all five archery events. In the individual events, no archer from Team GB managed to go past the round of 16 mark. The trio of Conor Hall, Tom Hall, and Alex Wise lost the preliminary round match in the men’s team event against Taiwan.
The women’s team had the same luck and were eliminated from the preliminary round after losing against Germany. They finished 19th in the mixed team event.
Brazil’s Marcus D’Almeida who won the silver medal at the World Cup in June was expected to have a decent outing. He faced Kim Woo-jin, the same opponent from the World Cup in the round of 16 match in Paris and was eliminated.
Mete Gazoz, Tokyo gold medallist in the individual event lost out to Woo-jin in the quarter-final. However, Gazoz, along with Berkim Tümer and Abdullah Yıldırmış won the bronze medal in the men’s team event
United States’ Casey Kaufhold finished in fourth place in the ranking round in the women’s individual event and was one of the strong contenders to win a medal. She lost the round of 32 match against Taiwan’s Lei Chien-ying, which marked her early exit from the tournament. In the team event, the United States lost to Taiwan in the preliminary round.
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