News Some of the world’s leading archers and the sport’s international federation hailed the venue and organisation of the Rio 2016 archery test event, which came to an end at the Sambódromo on Tuesday (22 September) “It’s a great venue and it’s an honour to compete at the home of Rio Carnival, such an iconic place for Brazilians,” said Sjef van den Berg of the Netherlands, who took silver in the men’s individual event at the the Aquece Rio International Archery Challenge “The event was really good, well organised ”Amongst a field containing some of the world’s best archers, Van den Berg finished behind former world no 1 Kim Woojin of the Republic of Korea, who was also pleased with the venue and organisation “I’m very happy with the arena and the people here were also very impressive,” said Kim “They were cheering during and before the competition I like the environment, the locals, I liked it a lot ”Video: archery test event highlights (click on cog symbol to select English subtitles):The eight-day event featured 120 athletes (64 men and 56 women) from 28 countries, including 11 medallists from the London 2012 Olympic Games The Rio 2016 organising committee had 593 people working (77 full-time staff, 378 contractors and 138 volunteers) across 28 departments “We are very satisfied with the all the operations tested here, it has been a successful event,” said Juan Carlos Holgado, event director of World Archery “The Sambódromo will be a great Olympic venue The most important part of the test was for the athletes, and everything was great for them to test the competition conditions for next year ”Holgado also confirmed that the noise of passing traffic did not disturb the athletes, a theme elaborated on by Agberto Guimarães, executive director of sport at Rio 2016 “Test events are a chance for us to see what can be perfected for next year,” he said “We learnt, for example, that the noise of passing traffic could interfere with broadcast quality However, redirecting traffic, which would cause considerable disruption to the local population, will be the last resort to solve this We installed sound-proof walls for the test event, and now we will talk with the international federation to find the best solution for next year ” Kim Woojin celebrates winning the men's individual event (Photo: Rio 2016/Alexandre Loureiro) Asian archers dominated the medals, taking seven of the 12 up for grabs, with the Republic of Korea bagging three of the four golds on offer, and China claiming the other The Koreans topped the first podium, after the women’s team final on Saturday (19 September), with Ukraine and China taking silver and bronze The Chinese won the men’s team event the next day, ahead of Canada and the Netherlands The women’s individual gold was won on Monday by Korea’s Choi Misun, ahead of Tan Ya-Ting  of Chinese Taipei and the USA’s Mackenzie Brown “It’s my first time here in Rio and I like it, the city is very good,” said Choi, who left with two gold medals “We’ll have a national competition to select our Olympic team and hopefully I will be part of it and be here in Rio again next year ”Brown said: “It’s absolutely special to compete at the Sambódromo It has a rich history so it’s really cool and exciting to compete here And I loved the city in general, it’s really beautiful,”The Republic of Korea’s Kim Woojin won the last gold, in the men’s individual final on Tuesday, ahead of Van den Berg and fellow Korean Ku Bonchan Archery was the 11th Rio 2016 test event and the last of September October will see the focus switch to the Deodoro Olympic Park, with the BMX and mountain bike test events, followed by a busy November that will see boccia, table tennis, hockey, badminton and canoe slalom test events staged in Deodoro and Barra Find out more about the Rio 2016 test events programme