The return from two 30s
Maël Lamouret opened the men’s individual archery final in Dakar with 10, 10 and 10. His 30 against Chen Pin-An’s 29 earned a 2-0 lead. Both archers then scored 28 and received one set point each, taking Lamouret ahead 3-1. Chen won the third set 29-28 to level the match at 3-3. Across those opening three sets, Lamouret had one win, one tie and one loss despite beginning with a perfect series.[1]
Lamouret shot three more tens in the fourth set. His second 30, against Chen’s 28, moved the match score to 5-3. Each perfect series had contributed two set points. The one-point arrow-score margin in the first set and the two-point margin in the fourth made equal contributions to the match score. Winning either series brought the same return, regardless of the size of the difference between the arrow totals.[1]
From 5-3 to gold
In the final set Chen shot 10, 10 and 8; Lamouret shot 8, 10 and 10. The arrows arrived in a different order but totalled 28 each. Each archer received another set point and Lamouret won 6-4. Beginning that last series with an 8 did not cost the French archer the set. The two tens that followed levelled the set. With a 5-3 lead already in place, the single set point from that tie secured gold.[1]
Adding the arrow scores across all five sets gives Lamouret 144 and Chen 142. In the set-point calculation that awarded the medal, Lamouret’s two wins supplied four points and his two ties supplied two; his third-set loss supplied none. That makes 6-4. The decisive distribution is clear: two scores of 30 established the advantage, and a final series of 28 converted it into the medal. Reading the last arrow alone leaves out the 5-3 match position that preceded it.[1]