Rina Dewi Puspitasari (born 5 October 1985 in East Jawa) is an athlete from Indonesia. She 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 ...

. Puspitasari represented Indonesia 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), ...

. She placed 46th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 616. In the first round of elimination, she faced 19th-ranked

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 ...

of the United States. Puspitasari lost 160–141 in the 18-arrow match, placing 46th overall in women's individual archery. At the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

in Beijing Puspitasari finished her ranking round with a total of 620 points. This gave her the 42nd seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Miroslava Dagbaeva in the first round. Both archers scored a total of 106 points in the regular match and a decisive extra round had to make the difference. In this extra round Dagbaeva scored 10 points while Puspitasari only scored 9 points and was eliminated., beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 23 2008

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