Archery at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held at the archery range, located at the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre (Krylatskoye district, Moscow). The archery schedule began on 30 July and ended on 2 August. Two archery events were contested: men's individual and women's individual. Points were in a format called the double FITA round, which included 288 arrows shot over four days at four different distances: 70 meters, 60 meters, 50 meters, 30 meters for women; 90 meters, 70 meters, 50 meters, 30 meters for men.

Medallists

Event:
Men's individual:	Tomi Poikolainen , Finland	Boris Isachenko , Soviet Union	Giancarlo Ferrari , Italy
Women's individual:	Keto Losaberidze , Soviet Union	Natalya Butuzova , Soviet Union	Paivi Meriluoto , Finland

Top 8 table

Position	Country	Total	Medals
1	Soviet Union	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	3
2	Finland	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	2
3	Italy	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
4	Czechoslovakia	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
4	Great Britain	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
6	Hungary	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
6	DPR Korea	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
8	Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
9	Poland	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
10	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1

Results

Men's individual

Rank	Name	Nation	Round 1 Score	Round 1 Rank	Round 2 Score	Round 2 Rank	Total Score
1	Tomi Poikolainen	Finland	1220	5	1235	2	2455
2	Boris Isachenko	Soviet Union	1217	8	1235	1	2452
3	Giancarlo Ferrari	Italy	1215	9	1234	3	2449
4	Mark Blenkarne	Great Britain	1224	2	1222	6	2446
5	Bela Nagy	Hungary	1225	1	1221	8	2446
6	Vladimir Yesheyev	Soviet Union	1222	3	1210	10	2432
7	Kyoesti Laasonen	Finland	1212	10	1207	11	2419
8	Martinus Reniers	Netherlands	1205	12	1213	9	2418
9	Robert Cogniaux	Belgium	1218	7	1196	13	2414
10	Krzysztof Wlosik	Poland	1178	19	1232	4	2410
11	Zoran Matkovic	Yugoslavia	1187	16	1223	5	2410
12	Goran Bjerendal	Sweden	1187	17	1221	7	2408
13	Dennis Savory	Great Britain	1220	4	1187	16	2407
14	Sante Spigarelli	Italy	1205	13	1200	12	2405
15	Andrei Berki	Romania	1200	15	1189	15	2389
16	Andre Braun	Luxembourg	1218	6	1168	20	2386
17	Willy van den Bossche	Belgium	1210	11	1174	18	2384
18	Romeo Frigo	Switzerland	1171	21	1193	14	2364
19	Niamtseren Biambasuren	Mongolia	1178	20	1183	17	2361
20	Rolf Svensson	Sweden	1184	18	1173	19	2357
21	Peter Mitterer	Austria	1169	23	1167	21	2336
22	Kim Gye Yong	DPR Korea	1203	14	1128	26	2331
23	Tserendorjin Dagvadorj	Mongolia	1171	22	1147	23	2318
24	Frantisek Hadas	Czechoslovakia	1148	25	1157	22	2305
25	Mihai Birzu	Romania	1146	26	1134	24	2280
26	Scott Dumbrell	Australia	1142	27	1129	25	2271
27	Renato Emilio	Brazil	1139	28	1125	27	2264
28	Istvan Balasz	Hungary	1123	29	1118	28	2241
29	Antonio Vazquez	Spain	1149	24	1091	32	2240
30	Petio Kichev	Bulgaria	1117	30	1116	29	2233
31	William Swords	Ireland	1106	32	1106	31	2212
32	Patrick Jopp	Switzerland	1077	34	1113	30	2190
33	Francisco Peralta	Spain	1111	31	1070	35	2181
34	David Campbell Milne	Zimbabwe	1088	33	1058	36	2146
35	Juan Wedel	Costa Rica	1075	35	1071	34	2146
36	Jorge Murillo	Costa Rica	1041	36	1086	33	2127
37	James Conroy	Ireland	1017	37	1041	37	2058
38	Leo Portelli	Malta	860	38	947	38	1807

Women's individual

For the first time in Olympic archery history, the women's gold medalist outscored the men's. In fact, both of the Soviet women who earned medals in the women's competition had higher scores than the winner of the men's competition. Finland, which had earned gold in the men's competition, also won bronze in the women's.

Rank	Name	Nation	Round 1 Score	Round 1 Rank	Round 2 Score	Round 2 Rank	Total Score
1	Keto Losaberidze	Soviet Union	1257	1	1234	1	2491
2	Natalya Butuzova	Soviet Union	1251	2	1226	3	2477
3	Paivi Meriluoto	Finland	1217	3	1232	2	2449
4	Zdenka Padevetova	Czechoslovakia	1206	4	1199	5	2405
5	Gwang Sun O	DPR Korea	1195	5	1206	4	2401
6	Catherina Floris	Netherlands	1186	7	1196	6	2382
7	Maria Szeliga	Poland	1190	6	1175	8	2365
8	Lotti Tschanz	Switzerland	1184	8	1162	13	2346
9	Terene Donovan	Australia	1172	10	1171	10	2343
10	Franca Capetta	Italy	1164	12	1178	7	2342
11	Jadwiga Wilejto	Poland	1165	11	1163	12	2328
12	Judit Kovacs	Hungary	1155	13	1168	11	2323
13	Aurora Chin	Romania	1174	9	1145	17	2319
14	Capita Jussila	Finland	1140	15	1158	15	2298
15	Carole Toy	Australia	1123	17	1162	14	2285
16	Anna-Lisa Berglund	Sweden	1140	14	1143	18	2283
17	Sok Chang Suk	DPR Korea	1119	18	1150	16	2269
18	Erika Ulrich	Switzerland	1069	27	1171	9	2240
19	Hazel Greene	Ireland	1123	16	1106	22	2229
20	Jitka Dolejsi	Czechoslovakia	1102	21	1117	20	2219
21	Margit Szobi	Hungary	1082	26	1134	19	2216
22	Gillian Patterson	Great Britain	1114	19	1102	23	2216
23	Chagdar Biambasuren	Mongolia	1108	20	1108	21	2216
24	Terezia Preda	Romania	1097	22	1098	26	2195
25	Christine Harris	Great Britain	1087	24	1100	25	2187
26	Arci Kempner	Brazil	1084	25	1102	24	2186
27	Tzvetanka Stoytcheva	Bulgaria	1089	23	1055	29	2144
28	Joanna Agius	Malta	1052	29	1067	27	2119
29	Tsedendorj Bazarsuren	Mongolia	1053	28	1059	28	2112