Carolina Aguirre Giraldo (born 29 January 1996) is a Colombian recurve archer who competed at the

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. She made her international debut at the fourth stage of the

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, and was later selected as the third member of the Colombian Olympic archery team. Aguirre contested both the women's individual and

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events at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. With teammates Ana Rendón and Natalia Sánchez she was eliminated by India in the 1/8 elimination stage of the team event after she scored poorly with her final arrow of the match. In the individual competition Aguirre finished the preliminary ranking round with 605 points from 720 to earn the 52nd seed for the subsequent knock-out stages, where she was defeated by Guendalina Sartori in the opening round.

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Official Olympic coverage of the Guendalina Sartori vs. Carolina Aguirre match
Colombian female archers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 1996 births Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for Colombia Sportspeople from Antioquia Department 21st-century Colombian women 21st-century Colombian people {{Colombia-archery-bio-stub