SA archer Roux makes Olympics debut, sets up eliminator with South Korea's Kim
Individual competitions at the Olympics begin with the ranking round, where each of the 64 archers shoot 72 arrows to determine their ranking for the single-elimination bracket.
Archer Wian Roux will represent South Africa at the Paris Olympics. Picture:@USSAstudent/X.
JOHANNESBURG - South African archer Wian Roux made his Olympics debut on Thursday.
The athlete finished the day ranking 63rd in the men's individual event with 601 points.
Individual competitions at the Olympics begin with the ranking round, where each of the 64 archers shoots 72 arrows to determine their ranking for the single-elimination bracket.
The athletes compete in this knockout system until the final according to their ranking, with the top-ranked archer facing off against the 64th-ranked archer, the second-ranked against the 63rd-ranked, and so on.
This means that the 21-year-old South African will compete against Korea's Kim Je-deok, who finished second in the ranking round.
The Korean archer competed at the Tokyo Olympic Games where he took home two gold medals.
"There are 64 men and only three medals, obviously, a medal would be good but to perform as good as possible with whatever happens then happens. It's a brutal game with the one-versus-one knockout. Anything can happen. You can win some, you can lose some. So, if I do my part and I lose, if I do my part and I win either way, I'll be happy," said Roux earlier on Thursday.
Roux represented South Africa at the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2018, where he finished 17th in both the individual and mixed team competitions. He’s the 2022 African Championships gold medallist and African silver medallist.
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