Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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{{Infobox Olympic event

| event = Archery

| games = 1988 Summer

| image = Archery pictogram.svg

| image_size = 100

| venue = Hwarang Archery Field

| dates = 27 September – 1 October 1988

| num_events = 4 (2 men, 2 women)

| competitors = 146

| nations = 41

| prev = 1984

| next = 1992

}}

{{Archery at the Olympics|1988}}

Four events were contested in archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. These events included team competitions for the first time in modern Olympic archery. Men's and women's individual competitions continued to be part of the schedule as well.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1988/ARC/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417044107/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1988/ARC/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Archery at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games |access-date=28 March 2020 |work=Sports Reference}}

The format for the individual competition was altered for the first time since the 1972 Summer Olympics. In Seoul, instead of all archers using the double FITA round to determine rankings, a sort of elimination plan was introduced. Each archer shot a single FITA round to determine initial rankings. Most archers were cut from the competition after this, with only 24 advancing. These archers then shot one-fourth the number of arrows normal for a FITA round, with these scores being used to drop more archers. This process was repeated until only 8 archers finished the fourth segment of the second round.