Lusitania matched against top women's archer [1]
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 - 06:38. Updated on Wednesday, August 10, 2016 - 06:40.
Tonga's recurve archer, Karoline Lusitania Tatafu, was matched against #2 ranked Korean archer Hyejin Chang, this morning in the Women's Individual 1 /32 Eliminations at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.
Lusi who was ranked 63rd out of 64 archers, shot nine arrows scoring 61 to Chang's 82. However, Chang reached the required six match points after three sets to end the match.
The Women’s Individual Archery event is one of four archery events being held from 5-12 August 2016 at the 2016 Summer Olympics. It is a recurve archery event, held under the World Archery approved 70-meter distance and rules. 64 archers participated at at Sambódromo.
Competition began with a ranking round, in which each archer shot 72 arrows. The scores from the ranking round were used to seed the archers into a single-elimination bracket. The knockout matches consisted of up to 5 sets of 3 arrows per archer. The archer with the best score in each set won the set, earning 2 points. If the score was tied, each archer received 1 point. The first archer to 6 points won the match.