summer olympics summer olympics held stadium athens greece ranking rounds august regular competition held august august nations competed gold medal events individual team events men women contested games stadium called notable site olympic games earlier ancient greeks games hosted behest president events held historic stadium hoping history natural beauty attract public sport fourth place finisher men individual event remarked stadium inspired pride american spoke saying great honor privilege able compete inside olympic stadium korean team won gold medals contested olympic records world records broken games despite poor weather conditions preliminary rounds competition qualification format ways qualify individual olympics gender host nation greece guaranteed spots world target competition teams including host nation received spots highest ranked team removed received spots remaining eighteen spots divided equally olympic continents allocation continental tournaments spots gender determined sex took olympics able enter maximum events olympics stand metres target target consists concentric circles total diameter earn points based circle arrow landed points awarded hitting center circle point awarded hitting circle ranking rounds archer shot ends groups arrows end score round determined match ups elimination rounds high ranking facing low ranking rounds elimination ends arrows field final rounds semifinals medal matches ends arrows thirteen men women teams competed team competitions teams consisted country individual round team initial ranking determined members scores individual ranking round round consisted team firing arrows archer medal summary event summary sixth olympics row south korean team came clear victor taking gold medals athens korean set new world records women individual team park ranking rounds men individual ranking round scores counted olympic records ranking round held opening ceremony olympic records broken men women arrow rounds combined korea men arrow match korea arrow finals rounds combined men events korean team shot maximum scores win gold medal chinese losing points united_states failed fend ukraine team capture bronze event causing upset men individual event korean team won failed clinch defending champion ousted competition round loss weather conditions wind caused like point shots strength caused miss targets completely final matches event saw competitors coming close score italian beating japanese points win gold closer bronze medal match britain seventeen year old australian managed semifinals point woman individual event fell easily won event continuously summer olympics los_angeles swept medals olympics gold silver fell korean captured bronze medal giving britain medal team event korean women beat chinese team win gold medal making eleventh straight women team championship win taiwan easily took bronze medal france participating nations nations contributed compete events list competing nations number national competitors medal table korea continued domination sport winning gold medals silver won men individual competition earning italy nation gold medal olympic blocking attempt win japan gold medal won medal won silver bronze
Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics