Check out the top 10 Archers of the Olympics in this article. An Archer is person (Male or Female) who use a bow and an arrow in real live hunting or as a sport. Practicing this is called archery. Archery in modern days mostly sports. Events held on different occasions. One of these events is Olympics. Each player is ranked on the basis of their points called “Ranking Points”. Here’s a list of archers based on their points in the Olympics:
Pierre Julien Deloche.
Pierre born in France. is a number one world champion in archery male or female with a gold and silver WAC medals. Pierre is an archer since 04 and in a national team since 07. Pierre was nervous as a child his parent thought that archery might help him calm down and it did. Pierre likes to archer in the south side of France as the weather is best for archery practice. Having the highest ranking points in the Olympics Pierre is on the top of the list with 332500 points.
Lee Seung-yun.
Born in 95 Lee is the far youngest male archer yet, born in South Korea. Was the first to be selected by the South Korean archer team that he led to the 2013 Archery World Cup and medals. Not only that but he other medals and position in archery world cups also in the Olympics. Coming second on this list is Lee having ranking points of 311500 quite close to the number one on our list.
Xu Jing.
Xu is a Chinese female archer born in 1990. Xu plays individually and for the Chinese women’s team. She was at the 2012 Olympics competing as a team member of her country. She is the number one female archer in the world with 269500 ranking points in the Olympics and some medals in the Archery World Cup
Erika Jones.
Erica is the former number one Female archer and currently the second best female archer in the world and the youngest female or male archer to win a championship at the age of 13. Erica won many national and international championships she’ also the one to have won both the “World Archery Competition” and “Archery World Cup”. Erica is the fourth amongst the male and the female archers with 268325 ranking points.
Oh Jin-Hyek.
Jin is in first Korean archer to ever win an Olympics’ individual gold medal in a championship. Till last year he was the number one ranked male archer in the world. Currently Jin is the third ranked male archer. Along with his gold medal other medals and team cups he has a ranking point of 260500 points making him the fifth on this list among the male and female archers.
Reo Wilde.
Reo is second best United States archer of time. Reo is an individual archer and has been competing recurve bow for about six years now but he’s spent more than 10 years on compound bow. Reo’ actual dream was to focus all of his time and energy on into shooting with no other job came true when he became a professional archer since 06. His inspiration is his father who led him to become a well known archer with many medals and to get to be sixth on this list with 250550 ranking points in Olympics.
Yun Ok-Hee.
Is another South Korean archer who is a former Asian number one archer back in the days. Yun won a Gold medal as a member of the South Korean team and a Silver medal as an individual archer. Currently Yun is the fourth ranked Asian archer, the third ranked female archer and the seventh on this worldwide. Yun has 243250 ranking points in the Olympics. Yun also won many champion ships as in the Archery World Cup and others.
Sara Lopez.
Being born in 95 also makes her the same age as Lee and the youngest female archer ever. Sara is the number third ranked United States archer and the second female American archer. Sara has spent 4 years in archery after seeing her brother archer. She quit volleyball to become an archer. Learning from her mentor and coach she became one of the best archers not only by having two gold medals also by having a ranking point of 234200 in the Olympics.
Rick van der ven.
Rick was interested in archery as a child, at the age of 8 he wanted to learn swimming and scuba diving but he wasn’t allowed till he was 13. He the started to learn arching as he became 13 he no longer wanted to swim continuing archery Rick became good at it. After 14 years of archery Rick is the fourth American male archer and he ninth on this list. Along with having two champion ships Rick has a ranking point of 233000 points in the Olympics.
Peter Elzinga.
A Dutch male archer Peter has many records one of them is shooting arrows for 22 years and 18 years in a team. Other than that Peter’s record at fita is 1419 and he’s the 6 times European and 2 individual and 4 time team champion. Being the number one Dutch archer and former number one archer worldwide in 04. Along with winning the 06 and 09 FIAT Championship peter in tenth on this list and eight male archer worldwide Peter has ranking points of 224500 points in the Olympics. Now you know who are the top 10 Olympic archers of 2014.
