Natalia "Nati" Sánchez Echeverri (born May 20, 1983) is a Colombian recurve

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. She is a two-time Olympian, contesting the

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and 2016 Games, a

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bronze medalist, and a two-time

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champion in the women's team event. Sánchez was born in

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, Antioquia.

Career

Olympic Games

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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, Sánchez finished her ranking round with a total of 643 points. This gave her the 18th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Katsiarina Muliuk in the first round. Despite the archer from

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being only the 47th seed, she managed to upset Sánchez and eliminate her with a 104-101 score.Athlete biography: Natalia Sanchez
beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 23 2008 Together with

Ana Rendón Ana María Rendón Martínez (born March 10, 1986) is a Colombian recurve archer. She has competed in the Olympic Games three times and is a two-time gold medalist at the Pan American Games. Career 2008 Summer Olympics At the 2008 Summer Olym ...

and

Sigrid Romero Sigrid Romero (born May 22, 1989 in Cali) is an athlete from Colombia who competes in archery. Early life Romero was born in Cali, Colombia, the daughter of Ramon Romero and Patricia Duque. Her name in German means triumphal procession, in the b ...

she also took part in the team event. With her 643 score from the ranking round combined with the 647 of Rendón and the 551 of Romero the Colombian team was in tenth position after the ranking round. In the first round they faced the

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ese team, but were unable to beat them. Japan advanced to the quarter finals with a 206-199 score. Sanchez also represented

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at the

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Pan American Games

Sánchez achieved a gold medal in the women's team event at the

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alongside

and

, Colombia's first gold medal in the event at the Games. She did not compete in the 2011 Games four years later due to a dispute between Sánchez, Rendón, and Romero and the Colombian national coach Kim Hag Yong. Following the archers' lack of confidence in Kim's training methods and their refusal to work with him, the three were withdrawn from the Games by the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sanchez, Natalia 1983 births Living people Colombian female archers Olympic archers for Colombia Archers at the 2007 Pan American Games Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Medellín World Archery Championships medalists Pan American Games gold medalists for Colombia Pan American Games medalists in archery Archers at the 2015 Pan American Games Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Colombia Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Colombia Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games South American Games gold medalists for Colombia South American Games medalists in archery Competitors at the 2014 South American Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in archery Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games 20th-century Colombian women 21st-century Colombian women