Tonga’s recurve archer Hans Arne Jensen (18) gave a creditable performance this morning (Tonga time) when he was matched against a top-ranked archer, Sjef Van Den Berg (21) of the Netherlands in the Men’s Individual 70m archery contest at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.

Jensen ranked #61 and Van Den Berg ranked #4 in the Olympic ranking round over the weekend, met in the 1 /32 elimination round at Sambódromo.

Van Den Berg won the elimination 7-3 to go through to the next 1/16 elimination round.

Jensen challenged Van Den Berg in five rounds of a close contest with 129 match points to Van den Berg’s 133.

The Men’s Individual Archery event is one of four archery events 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.

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. If the match was tied 5-5 after 5 sets, a single tie-breaker arrow was used with the closest to center winning.

The recurve bows used in Olympic competition average a draw weight of nearly 49 pounds for the men and 33 pounds for the women.