is an athlete from

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who competes in

archery 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 m ...

. She was the 2007 World Indoor Women’s Recurve Champion in the competition held in Izmir, Turkey that year.

Personal life

Nami has a younger sister,

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who is also an Olympic archer and competed in

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2008 Summer Olympics

At the

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Hayakawa finished her ranking round with a total of 649 points. This gave her the 9th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Elena Mousikou in the first round, beating the archer from

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with 112-103. In the second round she was too strong for

Jennifer Nichols Jennifer L. Nichols Hardy (born October 4, 1983) is an archer from the United States. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Nichols started archery when she was twelve years old and at fifteen she won the National Youth Archery Competition. 200 ...

with 105-103 and via

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 ...

with 106-97 she reached the quarter finals. There she was eliminated with 112-103 by Park Sung-hyun who would eventually win the silver medal.Athlete biography: Nami Hayakawa
beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 23 2008 Together with

Sayoko Kitabatake is an athlete from Japan who competes in archery. She competed under her birth name Sayoko Kawauchi (川内紗代子) at the 2004 Olympics. Kawauchi represented Japan at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 53rd in the women's individual rankin ...

and Yuki Hayashi she also took part in the team event. With her 649 score from the ranking round combined with the 616's of Kitabatake and Hayashi the Japanese team was in seventh position after the ranking round. In the first round they eliminated the

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n team with 206-199. However second seed

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was too strong in the quarter final, beating Japan with 201-196.

References

1984 births Living people People from Jeonju Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Japanese female archers Japanese people of Korean descent Naturalized citizens of Japan Olympic archers of Japan South Korean emigrants to Japan {{Japan-archery-bio-stub