is an athlete from

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

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 competed under her birth name Sayoko Kawauchi (川内紗代子) at the 2004 Olympics. Kawauchi represented Japan 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 53rd in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 601. In the first round of elimination, she faced 12th-ranked

Nataliya Burdeyna Nataliya Andriyivna Burdeyna ( ua, Наталія Андріївна Бурдейна, born 30 January 1974) is a Ukrainian archer. She was born in Odessa. Burdeyna was part of the Ukrainian team at the 2000 Summer Olympics, where they ...

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. Kawauchi defeated Burdeyna, winning 137-129 in the 18-arrow match to advance to the round of 32. In that round, she faced Alison Williamson of

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, losing to the 21st-ranked and eventual

bronze medal A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receive ...

ist archer 154-150 in the regulation 18 arrows. Kawauchi finished 26th in women's individual archery. Kawauchi was also a member of the 14th-place Japanese women's archery team.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the

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Kitabatake finished her ranking round with a total of 616 points. This gave her the 46th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced

Justyna Mospinek Justyna Mospinek (born 8 November 1983 in Zgierz) is an athlete from Poland who competes in archery. 2004 Summer Olympics Mospinek represented Poland at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 7th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72 ...

in the first round, beating the archer from

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and 19th seed with 103-101. In the second round she was not able to win against French 14th seed

Bérengère Schuh Bérengère Schuh (born 13 June 1984 in Auxerre) is an athlete from France. She competes in archery. 2004 Summer Olympics Schuh represented France at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 31st in the women's individual ranking round w ...

(112-100).Athlete biography: Sayoko Kitabatake
beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 23 2008 Together with Nami Hayakawa and Yuki Hayashi she also took part in the team event. With her 616 score from the ranking round combined with the 616 of Hayashi and the 649 of Hayakawa 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

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

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2004Japan Olympic Committee
1978 births Living people Olympic archers of Japan Archers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Japanese female archers People from Higashiōsaka Archers at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Japan 21st-century Japanese women {{Japan-archery-bio-stub