Mari Piuva (born 21 October 1980) is an
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
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
who competed at the
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...
.
Piuva was born in
Kemi
Kemi (; sme, Giepma ; smn, Kiemâ; sms, Ǩeeʹmm; Swedish (historically): ''Kiemi'') is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located very near the city of Tornio and the Swedish border. The distance to Oulu is to the south and to Rovani ...
in
Lapland and was introduced to archery at the age of fifteen. She was a three-time Finnish national archery champion prior to winning a qualification spot for the 2004 Olympics at that year's
European Archery Championships. Entering the
women's individual event, Piuva was seeded 49th for the competition's elimination rounds with a score of 615 points – from a maximum of 720 – in the preliminary 72-arrow ranking round. After defeating Georgia's
Natalia Nasaridze
Natalia Nasaridze (born 2 October 1972) is a three-time European champion archer, who competes internationally for Turkey.
She is from the Republic of Georgia. She is coached by Vladimir Lekveshivili and is a member of Antalya ...
in her opening elimination match she was beaten by Great Britain's
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 ...
in the second round.
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1980 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Kemi
Finnish female archers
Olympic archers for Finland
Archers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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