SYDNEY (AP) -- A South Korean trio set a world record in the opening round of the women's archery event at the Olympics on Saturday, breaking the four-year-old mark of another South Korean team.
The team of Kim Nam-soon, Yun Mi-jin and Kim Soo-nyung scored 1,994 points to break the mark of 1,984 set by Kim Jo-sun, Kim Kyung-wook and Yoon Hye-young at the Atlanta Games. It was the third straight Olympics that a South Korean team broke the world record in the ranking round.
The South Korean team placed first, third and fourth in the individual rankings with Kim Soo-nyung having the top score of 671 out of a possible 720.
Italian Natalia Valeeva was second with 667 ahead of the other two South Koreans.
The event continues throughout the week with the team medal being decided on Sept. 22. The ranking in the preliminary round determines which archers face each other in the eliminations.
Results
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Results Saturday from the archery competition at the Summer Olympics:
Men
Individual 70m
Ranking Round
1, Jang Yong-Ho, South Korea, 665.
2, Oh Kyo-Moon, South Korea, 660.
3, Kim Chung-Tae, South Korea, 655.
4, Rod White, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, 651.
5, Stanislav Zabrodskiy, Kazakstan, 649.
6, Magnus Petersson, Sweden, 646.
7, Victor Wunderle, Mason City, Ill., 643.
8, Simon Fairweather, Australia, 642.
9, Simon Needham, Britain, 641.
10, Nico Hendrickx, Belgium, 640.
11, Lionel Torres, France, 639.
12, Wietse van Alten, Netherlands, 638.
13, Serdar Satir, Turkey, 637.
14, Ozdemir Akbal, Turkey, 636.
15, Alexandr Li, Kazakstan, 635.
16, Fu Shengjun, China, 635.
17, Baljinima Tsyrempilov, Russia, 635.
18, Matteo Bisiani, Italy, 634.
19, Michele Frangilli, Italy, 634.
20, Henk Vogels, Netherlands, 634.
21, Grzegorz Targonski, Poland, 633.
22, Yang Bo, China, 632.
23, Vadim Shikarev, Kazakstan, 632.
24, Igor Parkhomenko, Ukraine, 632.
25, Jocelyn de Grandis, France, 632.
26, Serhiy Antonov, Ukraine, 631.
27, Matthew Gray, Australia, 631.
28, Niklas Eriksson, Sweden, 629.
29, Fred van Zutphen, Netherlands, 627.
30, Ilario di Buo, Italy, 627.
31, Butch Johnson, Woodstock, Conn., 627.
32, Hasan Orbay, Turkey, 626.
33, Juan Carlos Manjarrez Godinez, Mexico, 625.
34, Peter Koprivnikar, Slovenia, 624.
35, Yuji Hamano, Japan, 623.
36, Jari Lipponen, Finland, 622.
37, Rob Rusnov, Canada, 622.
38, Tang Hua, China, 619.
39, Bair Badenov, Russia, 618.
40, Iouri Leontiev, Russia, 617.
41, Ismely Arias, Cuba, 616.
42, Mattias Eriksson, Sweden, 616.
43, Viktor Kurchenko, Ukraine, 615.
44, Takayoshi Matsushita, Japan, 614.
45, Baard Nesteng, Norway, 613.
46, Lars Erik Humlekjaer, Norway, 613.
47, Martinus Grov, Norway, 613.
48, Peter Ebden, New Zealand, 607.
49, Bartosz Mikos, Poland, 606.
50, Masafumi Makiyama, Japan, 604.
51, Scott Hunter-Russell, Australia, 603.
52, Sebastien Flute, France, 603.
53, Miika Aulio, Finland, 603.
54, Christian Stubbe, Germany, 596.
55, Jubzang, Bhutan, 596.
56, Ken Uprichard, New Zealand, 596.
57, Juan Carlos Stevens, Cuba, 595.
58, Cristobal Antonio Merlos, El Salvador, 588.
59, Nuno Pombo, Portugal, 572.
60, Essam Sayed, Egypt, 556.
61, Francois Latil, Vanuatu, 546.
62, Yehya Bundhun, Mauritius, 537.
63, Dominic John Rebelo, Kenya, 500.
64, Kuresa Tupua, American Samoa, 419.
Women
Individual 70m
Ranking Round
1, Kim Soo-Nyung, South Korea, 671.
2, Natalia Valeeva, Italy, 667.
3, Kim Nam-Soon, South Korea, 662.
4, Yun Mi-Jin, South Korea, 661.
5, Olena Sadovnycha, Ukraine, 658.
6, Sayoko Kawauchi, Japan, 654.
7, Ok Sil Choe, North Korea, 649.
8, Pi-Yu Liu, Taiwan, 647.
9, Petra Ericsson, Sweden, 646.
10, Kateryna Serdyuk, Ukraine, 644.
11, Hui Yu, China, 643.
12, Yi-Yin Lin, Taiwan, 640.
13, Elif Altinkaynak, Turkey, 638.
14, Ying He, China, 638.
15, Hamdiah, Indonesia, 637.
16, Janet Dykman, El Monte, Calif., 636.
17, Natalia Nasaridze, Turkey, 636.
18, Jill Borresen, South Africa, 635.
19, Cornelia Pfohl, Germany, 635.
20, Alison Williamson, Britain, 635.
21, Natalia Bolotova, Russia, 634.
22, Karen Scavotto, Enfield, Conn., 634.
23, Barbara Mensing, Germany, 634.
24, Joanna Nowicka, Poland, 633.
25, Yang Jianping, China, 633.
26, Nataliya Burdeyna, Ukraine, 632.
27, Kate Fairweather, Australia, 630.
28, Anna Lecka, Poland, 630.
29, Anna Karaseva, Belarus, 629.
30, Chia-Ling Wen, Taiwan, 628.
31, Sandra Sachse, Germany, 628.
32, Melissa Jennison, Australia, 628.
33, Khatuna Lorigi, Georgia, 627.
34, Karin Larsson, Sweden, 626.
35, Sylvie Pissis, France, 625.
36, Almudena Gallardo, Spain, 625.
37, Yelena Plotnikova, Kazakstan, 623.
38, Khatuna Phutkaradze, Georgia, 623.
39, Zekiye Satir, Turkey, 622.
40, Mayumi Asano, Japan, 621.
41, Olga Moroz, Belarus, 620.
42, Alexandra Fouace, France, 619.
43, Denise Parker, Salt Lake City, 619.
44, Evangelia Psarra, Greece, 618.
45, Kristina Nordlander, Sweden, 618.
46, Vladlena Priestman, Britain, 618.
47, Cristina Ioriatti, Italy, 618.
48, Kirstin Lewis, South Africa, 615.
49, Michelle Tremelling, Australia, 615.
50, Tshering Chhoden, Bhutan, 614.
51, Wenche-Lin Hess, Norway, 613.
52, Jennifer Chan, Philippines, 613.
53, Asmat Diasamidze, Georgia, 612.
54, Yaremis Perez Ruiz, Cuba, 612.
55, Irene Franchini, Italy, 611.
56, Edisbel Martinez, Cuba, 611.
57, Katja Brix Poulsen, Denmark, 609.
58, Katri Suutari, Finland, 608.
59, Denisse Astrid van Lamoen, Chile, 605.
60, Agata Bulwa, Poland, 603.
61, Erika Reyes Evaristo, Mexico, 597.
62, Thi Thi Win, Myanmar, 567.
63, Henriette Youanga, Central Africa, 490.
64, Margaret Tumusiime, Uganda, 474.