Li Wenquan (; born 18 January 1986 in

Guangxi Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ...

) is a male

archer 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 mo ...

from Gaotian village,

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County,

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City in the

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2008 Summer Olympics

At the

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, Li finished his ranking round with a total of 646 points. This gave him the 46th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced

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in the first round. Proć won the match with 116-111 and was eventually eliminated in the third round by gold medalist

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.Athlete biography: Li Wenquan
, beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 17 2008 Together with Jiang Lin and Xue Haifeng, he also took part in the team event. With his 646 score from the ranking round combined with the 632 of Jiang and the 663 of Xue the Chinese were in 12th and last position after the ranking round. However, in the first round they were too strong for the

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team 214-210. They advanced to the semi-final by eliminating

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217-209, but lost against

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221-218. In the bronze medal match China was too strong for the team from

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, beating them 222-219 to claim the bronze.

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1986 births Living people Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for China Olympic bronze medalists for China Sportspeople from Guangxi Olympic medalists in archery Zhuang people Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2006 Asian Games Chinese male archers Asian Games competitors for China 21st-century Chinese people {{PRChina-archery-bio-stub