| | Event type
Team, Men
| Date | 28 July – 2 August 1996 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Stone Mountain Archery Center, Stone Mountain, Georgia | |
| Participants | 45 from 15 countries | |
| Format | Teams consisted of three archers. Ranking rounds scores based on scores carried over from individual ranking round. Tie-breaking for the final placements was done by the following method. Losers in each round were ranked according to the score they shot in that round. Ties in that round were broken by the number of 10s shot in that round and then the number of 9s shot in that round. If still tied the score in the preceding round was used as the tie-breaker, followed by number of 10s, and then number of 9s in the preceding round. Team event shot entirely at 70 metres. Matches consisted of 27 arrows, 9 per archer. | |
By 1996 Korea was the top archery country in the world. They had been World Champions in 1995, although in 1993 France won a surprising victory. Korea led the ranking round with a world record and in the finals, faced their arch-rivals, the United States, with the USA winning a surprising 251-249 victory for the gold medal. Italy, which would win the 1999 World Championship, placed third in Atlanta, defeating Australia in the bronze medal match.
| Pos | Competitors | NOC | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States |  USA | Gold | |||||
| Justin Huish • Butch Johnson • Rod White | ||||||||
| 2 | Republic of Korea |  KOR | Silver | |||||
| Jang Yong-Ho • Kim Bo-Ram • Oh Gyo-Mun | ||||||||
| 3 | Italy |  ITA | Bronze | |||||
| Matteo Bisiani • Michele Frangilli • Andrea Parenti | ||||||||
| 4 | Australia |  AUS | ||||||
| Simon Fairweather • Jackson Fear • Matt Gray | ||||||||
| 5 | Slovenia |  SLO | ||||||
| Peter Koprivnikar • Matevž Krumpeštar • Samo Medved | ||||||||
| 6 | Sweden |  SWE | ||||||
| Göran Bjerendal • Mikael Larsson • Magnus Petersson | ||||||||
| 7 | Ukraine |  UKR | ||||||
| Oleksandr Yatsenko • Valeriy Yevetskyi • Stanislav Zabrodskiy | ||||||||
| 8 | Finland |  FIN | ||||||
| Jari Lipponen • Tomi Poikolainen • Tommi Tuovila | ||||||||
| 9 | France |  FRA | ||||||
| Sébastien Flûte • Damien Letulle • Lionel Torrés | ||||||||
| 10 | Chinese Taipei |  TPE | ||||||
| Cho Sheng-Ling • Hsieh Sheng-Feng • Wu Tsung-Yi | ||||||||
| 11 | Russian Federation |  RUS | ||||||
| Bair Badyonov • Andrey Podlazov • Balzhinima Tsyrempilov | ||||||||
| 12 | People's Republic of China |  CHN | ||||||
| Luo Hengyu • Shen Jun • Tang Hua | ||||||||
| 13 | Kazakhstan |  KAZ | ||||||
| Vadim Shikarev • Sergey Martynov • Vitaly Shin | ||||||||
| 14 | India |  IND | ||||||
| Changte Lalremsaga • Skalzang Dorje • Limba Ram | ||||||||
| 15 | Canada |  CAN | ||||||
| Jeannot Robitaille • Rob Rusnov • Kevin Sally | ||||||||
Ranking Round
| Date | 28 July 1996 — 14:00 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ranking round for placement into single-elimination tournament. |
Round One
| Date | 2 August 1996 |
|---|---|
| Format | Winner of each match advanced to the quarter-finals. |
| Match | Date/Time | Competitors | NOC | Result | Competitors | NOC | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Match #1 | 02 Aug | Republic of Korea | KOR | bye | |||
| Match #2 | 02 Aug | Slovenia | SLO | 242 – 241 | Russian Federation | RUS | |
| Match #3 | 02 Aug | Sweden | SWE | 247 – 239 | Kazakhstan | KAZ | |
| Match #4 | 02 Aug | Australia | AUS | 243 – 240 | People's Republic of China | CHN | |
| Match #5 | 02 Aug | United States | USA | 251 – 235 | India | IND | |
| Match #6 | 02 Aug | Ukraine | UKR | 238 – 225 | Canada | CAN | |
| Match #7 | 02 Aug | Finland | FIN | 245 – 244 | France | FRA | |
| Match #8 | 02 Aug | Italy | ITA | 244 – 243 | Chinese Taipei | TPE |
Quarter-Finals
| Date | 2 August 1996 |
|---|---|
| Format | Winner of each match advanced to the semi-finals. |
| Match | Date/Time | Competitors | NOC | Result | Competitors | NOC | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Match #1 | 02 Aug | Republic of Korea | KOR | 251 – 249 | Slovenia | SLO | |
| Match #2 | 02 Aug | Australia | AUS | 253 – 241 | Sweden | SWE | |
| Match #3 | 02 Aug | United States | USA | 251 – 240 | Ukraine | UKR | |
| Match #4 | 02 Aug | Italy | ITA | 252 – 236 | Finland | FIN |
Semi-Finals
| Date | 2 August 1996 |
|---|---|
| Format | Winner of each match advanced to the final round. |
| Match | Date/Time | Competitors | NOC | Result | Competitors | NOC | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Match #1 | 02 Aug | Republic of Korea | KOR | 250 – 234 | Australia | AUS | |
| Match #2 | 02 Aug | United States | USA | 251 – 247 | Italy | ITA |
Final Round
| Date | 2 August 1996 |
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| Match | Date/Time | Competitors | NOC | Result | Competitors | NOC | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Match 1/2 | 02 Aug | United States | USA | 251 – 249 | Republic of Korea | KOR | |
| Match 3/4 | 02 Aug | Italy | ITA | 248 – 244 | Australia | AUS |