The Archery events at the 2012 Summer Olympics is scheduled to be held over an eight day period from 27 July to 3 August. Four events will be held, and all events shall take place at Lord's Cricket Ground in London in front of a temporary stand built to accommodate 6,500 spectators.
128 athletes shall compete across the four medal events: men's individual, women's individual, men's team and women's team.
All four events shall be recurve archery events, and shall be held under the FITA-approved 70-metre distance and rules. An initial ranking round involving all 128 archers shall take place, before competitors move on to the 'Olympic round', which will be played in a tournament or single elimination format in each event. In each individual event, all 64 archers of each gender shall participate; in each team competition, there shall be a field of 12 teams, each consisting of three archers.
The ranking round will be used to seed both individual and team events, the latter by aggregating the individual scores for the members of each team; from there, the Olympic round will be conducted in tournament, single-elimination format where one loss will eliminate the competitor, save for the semifinals. In that round, the losers will move on to bronze medal competition; the winners will move on to compete for the gold medal.
Individual events
In the individual events, all 64 competitors shall enter the competition at the first round, the round of 64.
Team events
In the team events, the top four seeded teams from the ranking round shall receive a bye to the quarter-final round. The remaining eight teams, seeded 5th to 12th, shall compete for the remaining four places in the quarterfinal round.
