Elena Mousikou (born 7 November 1988) is an athlete from

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...

who competes in

archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...

. At the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

Mousikou finished her ranking round with a total of 589 points. This gave her the 56th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced

Nami Hayakawa is an athlete from Japan who competes in archery. She was the 2007 World Indoor Women’s Recurve Champion in the competition held in Izmir, Turkey that year. Personal life Nami has a younger sister, Ren who is also an Olympic archer and competed ...

in the first round. The archer from

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

was too strong and eliminated Mousikou straight away with a 112-103 score.Athlete biography: Elena Mousikou
, beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 23 2008

References

1988 births Living people Olympic archers for Cyprus Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Cypriot female archers {{Cyprus-archery-bio-stub