Olympic Archery 2016: Women's Team Medal Winners, Results and Final Scores

The Republic of Korea claimed an eighth gold medal in a row in the women's archery event at the 2016 Rio Olympics on Sunday. An already highly decorated squad saw off tough competition from Russia to win the final 5-1.

Meanwhile, Chinese Taipei secured bronze after beating an Italian squad unfortunate to let a lead slip against Russia at the semifinal stage.

Here are the results and final scores after Sunday's events:

Event	Match	Score
Women's Team Semifinal	Republic of Korea vs. Taipei	5-1
Women's Team Semifinal	Italy vs. Russia	3-5
Women's Team Bronze-Medal Match	Taipei vs. Italy	5-3
Women's Team Gold-Medal Match	Republic of Korea vs. Russia	5-1

All scoring data via Rio2016.com. 

Recap

Italy missed a great chance to send world champion Russia out. The Italians built a 3-1 lead,but simply couldn't hold on.

Consecutive scores of 52 in both the third and fourth sets proved enough to send Russia through. It meant a meeting with seven-time gold-medal winners the Republic of Korea.

The favourites progressed after they saw off Chinese Taipei by an emphatic scoreline of 5-1. A strong start was the key to the defending champion's success, according to former Team GB Olympian Alison Williamson:

Taipei went four up in their bronze-medal encounter with Italy but soon saw that advantage halved. However, Taipei managed to see the match out, eventually triumphing with a 5-3 score—good enough for bronze as Italy still rued their earlier costly misses.

That left the stage set for Korea's meeting with Russia, hoping to make it an incredible eight out of eight gold medals. The former began by shooting a 59 en route to a 2-0 lead early.

The dominance may have been expected, but archer Crystal Gauvin still felt privileged to be watching the best the sport has to offer:

It was soon 4-0 as the Korean squad held their nerve in front of target. They found 10s with a quartet of arrows to stay firmly in control.

Finally, they had three arrows to make their grip on yet another gold count. They duly did just that to make it eight in a row.