Dates July 31 — August 3 | Competitors 75 from 34 nations | |
Venue Camp Olímpic de Tir amb Arc | ||
The men's individual was an archery event held as part of the Archery at the 1992 Summer Olympics programme. The event took place between July 31 and August 3, 1992. 75 archers competed. As with other archery events at the Olympics, the event featured the recurve discipline.
The competition format was completely revamped from prior Games. Head-to-head competition was introduced, after a ranking round. Furthermore, all archery was now done at a range of 70 metres whereas previously multiple distances were used.
The competition began with a 144-arrow ranking round. The top 32 individual archers were seeded into a single-elimination tournament called the "Olympic round". For each match, the archers shot 12 arrows. In all matches, losers were eliminated and received a final rank determined by their score in that round, with the exception of the semifinals. The losers of the semifinals competed in the bronze medal match. The scores of the ranking round were also used to determine the team ranks for the team competition.