No. 1 seed Park Sung-Hyun of South Korea shot 115 points to set a new 12-arrow Olympic record in the women's individual 1/8 elimination at the Olympic archery field on Thursday.
Park and her teammates Yun Ok-Hee and Joo Hyun-Jung all advanced as expected to the quarterfinals.
The previous record was 114 points made by Kim Soo-Nyung, another South Korean, at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
The Korean trio, already gold medalists for the women's team on Sunday, are primed to sweep the women's individual.
The potential sweep would be a flash-back to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games where three South Korean women took home all three individual medals.
In the most riveting match of the morning, 14-year-old Mariana Avitia from Mexico showed she is ready to challenge the Koreans for a medal after taking out the No. 4 seed Khatuna Narimanidze of Georgia in the 1/8 elimination. Avitia won the match on her final arrow, 109-108.
Leading archers who qualified for the top eight include Khatuna Lorig from United States and China's Zhang Juanjuan, who was also a twice Olympian.
No. 24 seed Khatuna Lorig defeated Ana Maria Rendon from Colombia by 12 points, 107-95. Lorig has returned to the Olympic Games after an eight -year absence.
Zhang, the No. 27 seed, carries China's hope for an individual Olympic title having won her 1/8 elimination match against Natalia Ereyniyeva of Russia 110-98.
The other two archers qualified for the last eight were Nami Hayakava from Japan and Kwon Un Sil of DPRK.
(Xinhua News Agency August 14, 2008)