Khatuna Narimanidze ( ka, ხათუნა ნარიმანიძე; born 2 February 1974) is an athlete from

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. She competes in

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2004 Summer Olympics

Narimanidze represented Georgia at the

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. She placed 41st in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 620. In the first round of elimination, she faced 24th-ranked

Almudena Gallardo Almudena Gallardo Vicente (born March 26, 1979 in Madrid) is a Spanish archer who competed in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. Career Gallardo joined the Spanish national archery team in 1995 having won three consecutive national juni ...

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. Narimanidze lost 148-132 in the 18-arrow match, placing 51st overall in women's individual archery.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the

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Narimanidze finished her ranking round with a total of 663 points. This gave her the 4th seed (the first non

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n) for the final competition bracket in which she faced

Dorji Dema Dorji Dema (born October 16, 1983) is an athlete from Bhutan who competes in archery. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Dema finished her ranking round with a total of 567 points. This gave her the 61st seed for the final competition bracket ...

in the first round, beating the archer from

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with 107-97. In the second round she was too strong for

Leydis Brito Leidys Brito (born July 5, 1984) is an athlete from Venezuela who competes in archery. 2008 Summer Olympics At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Brito finished her ranking round with a total of 628 points. This gave her the 36th seed for the ...

from

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with 111-98, but in the third round she was eliminated by 20th seed

Mariana Avitia Mariana Avitia Martínez (born September 18, 1993) is a Mexican recurve archer. She was the first Mexican to win an Olympic medal in archery after taking bronze in the women's individual event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is also the young ...

with 109-108.Athlete biography: Khatuna Narimanidze
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2016 Summer Olympics

Narimanidze represented

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* * 1974 births Living people Olympic archers for Georgia (country) Archers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Female archers from Georgia (country) Archers at the 2015 European Games European Games medalists in archery European Games silver medalists for Georgia (country) 21st-century women from Georgia (country) Place of birth missing (living people) {{Georgia-archery-bio-stub