The men's team was an

archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a Bow and arrow, bow to shooting, shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting ...

event held as part of the Archery at the 1992 Summer Olympics programme.

Results

The score for the team ranking round was the sum of the three archers' scores in the individual ranking round. No further shooting was done to determine team rankings.

Ranking round

Knockout stage

Round of 16 The top sixteen teams in the qualifying round earned the opportunity to compete in the head-to-head elimination matches. Quarterfinals All four of the top-ranked teams fell in the quarterfinals, eliminating them from medal contention and leaving such surprise contenders as #10-ranked host nation Spain. Semifinals The host nation continued an impressive run by knocking off the #6-ranked British team in a close match. Final After having defeated #7-ranked Denmark, #2-ranked Unified Team, and #6-ranked Great Britain, Spain was able to pull off one more astonishing upset, this time against #5-ranked Finland, to claim the

gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have b ...

on their home turf. It was Spain's first Olympic medal in archery.

References

Sources

* Official Report * {{DEFAULTSORT:Archery at the 1992 Summer Olympics - Men's team Archery at the 1992 Summer Olympics Men's events at the 1992 Summer Olympics