South Korean archers continued their dominance in the ranking round at the Rio Olympic Games as they stayed on top in both the men's and women's individual and team event here on Friday.

The 24-year-old Kim Woo-jin took the spotlight in the morning as he broke the world record of men's individual event when he scored 700 hits out of 72 arrows. He beat the previous world mark of 699 hits set by his compatriot Im Dong-hyun at the London Olympic Games four years ago.

"I practiced more than everyone else and I gave my best for the entire round. Tomorrow there is a more important match. In terms of celebrating today, nothing - I want to focus on tomorrow's match," said Kim who is the two-time individual gold medalist at the World Championships in 2011 and 2015.

Kim also collected the team gold medals on both occasions.

"I want to focus on the Games now but later, maybe, I'll get to enjoy Brazil," he added.

Boosted by Kim's record-setting feat, the South Koreans also topped the ranking round for the team event as Ku Bon-chan and Lee Seung-yun scored 681 and 676 hits respectively. The total team hit of 2,057 is 30 hits shy of the world record also set by the South Korean team at the London Games.

In the women's ranking round, which was staged under windy conditions in the afternoon, the South Koreans swept the top three place as Choi Mi-sun scored the 669 hits the take the lead. Teammate Chang Hye-jin and defending individual and team champion Ki Bo-bae scored 666 and 663 hits.

Thanks to the trio's overwhelming performance, South Korea lead the women's team ranking with 1998 hits, 50 hits ahead of second placed Russia. China finished at the third place with 1933 hits.

"We have the best players, we have talent and skill. It is so windy that people can get overwhelmed but we shot well in the end. Tomorrow I'd like to get a good rhythm as well," said Choi.

"My coach talked to us about the strong wind and the direction of the wind before the match. He told us not to lose confidence because of that, and to just do our game," she added.