How to Run an Olympic Round of Archery

Olympic-level archery pits the most accurate archers in the world against each other in order to crown a single champion. If you are looking to replicate the Olympic format for your archery competition, there are two different types of rounds used during the competition. The opening round is used to seed the archers and create the bracket for the second phase, the elimination rounds. While the Olympics narrow down to a 64-archer bracket after the opening round, you can reduce to a smaller number if needed to match your entrants, provided you cut to a multiple of two.

Things You'll Need

  • Archery targets
Show More

Instructions

  1. Opening Round

    • 1

      Fire shots in sets of six, with one archer taking the six shots, then the second archer and so on until every archer has taken six shots.

    • 2

      Repeat 11 times, for a total of 12 rounds, or 72 arrows for each archer.

    • 3

      Total each archer's score from the 12 rounds of shooting.

    • 4

      Rank the archers from the most points scored to the fewest.

    Elimination Rounds

    • 5

      Place the archers that qualify in the opening round into a tournament bracket, with the top scorer against the lowest-qualifying scorer, the second scorer against the second lowest and so on.

    • 6

      Compete in head-to-head matches with each archer attempting only to beat the score of his opponent.

    • 7

      Shoot arrows in sets of three, with six sets total shot in each match for a total of 18 arrows per archer.

    • 8

      Advance the shooter that has the highest score in each head-to-head match-up to the next round and another head-to-head pairing.