Khatuna Lorig (; born January 1, 1974, as Khatuna Kvrivishvili, ka, ხათუნა ქვრივიშვილი) is a

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archer who immigrated to the United States. She has used at least 3 different last names while competing in and representing various different countries. * Khatuna Kvrivichvili,

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(part of the Unified Team) at Barcelona 1992. At the age of 18, she won the bronze medal * Khatuna Lorigi, while competing for Georgia in the Atlanta (1996) and Sydney (2000) Olympic games. * Khatuna Lorig, from 2004 when she was unable to participate in the Olympic Games in Athens because of citizenship issues. She competed for the United States at the 2008 Olympics. Then, at the age of 38 she competed again for Team USA at the 2012 London Olympics.

Career

Lorig's hometown is

Tbilisi, Georgia Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million peo ...

, where she started her archery training in 6th grade at a state-sponsored school. Her training involved learning how to hold a bow for eight months while looking in the mirror before being able to actually load an arrow. Lorig earned individual bronze and team gold medals at the 1990 European Championships in Barcelona competing for the Soviet Union. She also earned individual and team gold medals at the 1992 European Championships in Malta. When she was 18 and while four months pregnant, Lorig earned a bronze medal in women's team competing for the Unified Team at the

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. Lorig went on to compete for Georgia at the

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. After competing in the 1996 Olympics in the United States, she decided to remain in the US and settled in Brooklyn and later New Jersey. She competed again for Georgia at the

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as Khatuna Lorigi. Lorig became a naturalized U.S. citizen and qualified to compete in the women's individual archery event at the

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. There Lorig finished her ranking round with a total of 635 points. This gave her the 26th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced

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in the first round, beating the archer from

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with 107-105. In the second round she was too strong for

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with 112-109 and via

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(107-95) she achieved her place in the quarter final. There she was unable to beat eventual bronze medalist

Yun Ok-Hee Yun Ok-hee (Korean: 윤옥희, Hanja: 尹玉姬, ; born 1 March 1985) is a South Korean archer, who won the gold medal in the team and a silver in the individual competition at the 2006 Asian Games and is a former world num ...

who won the match with 111-105. Lorig was afterwards chosen to be the U.S. flagbearer in the

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. She taught actress

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how to shoot with a recurve bow for the 2012 film '' The Hunger Games''. During that year's Olympics, Lorig finished fourth.From ‘Hunger Games’ to London Games: Khatuna Lorig just misses bronze in archery
/ref> In April 2016, she received her first sponsorship deal with a non-archery brand, appearing in a commercial for

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tires. She was also selected to be part of "Team Bridgestone," a group of 6 Olympic and Paralympic athletes attempting to compete in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

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