Helen Palmer (born 19 September 1974) is a

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who represented

Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics Great Britain, the team of the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004 with the team of selected athletes was officially known as Team GB. The British sent a wide-rangi ...

. Prior to winning selection to the British Olympic archery team, Palmer had been a member of the British team that concluded the 2003 World Archery Championships in third place. In Athens she finished in sixty-first place in the preliminary 72-arrow ranking round, which determined the seedings for the subsequent elimination rounds of the women's individual event, setting up a first round encounter with 1996 Olympic silver medalist

He Ying He Ying (, born April 17, 1977 in Jilin) is an archer from the People's Republic of China who has competed at three Summer Olympics. Career 1996 Summer Olympics In 1996 Atlanta Olympics He won the silver in the women's individual event. ...

of China. Over the sixteen-arrow match He outscored Palmer by 141 points to 130, eliminating Palmer from the event. Palmer and her teammates

Naomi Folkard Naomi Anne Folkard (born 18 September 1983) is a British archer who has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games five times between 2004 and 2020. She has also represented Great Britain at the World Archery Championships and the Archery Wo ...

and

Alison Williamson Alison Jane Williamson Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 3 November 1971) is a retired British people, British archery, archer who represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics, Great Britain at six consecutive Olympic Games from 1992 t ...

also failed to advance beyond the first elimination stage of the team competition after losing to India by 230 points to 228. At the time of the 2004 Olympics, Palmer was a senior marketing manager with

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bank, and a member of the Long Mynd Archers club in

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* * 1974 births Living people Olympic archers for Great Britain Archers at the 2004 Summer Olympics British female archers 21st-century British sportswomen {{UK-archery-bio-stub