Tetyana Mykolayivna Berezhna ( uk, Тетяна Миколаївна Бережна; born 13 November 1982) 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

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. Berezhna represented Ukraine 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 14th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 640. In the first round of elimination, she faced 51st-ranked Fotini Vavatsi of

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. Berezhna defeated Vavatsi, winning 160-156 in the 18-arrow match to advance to the round of 32. In that round, she faced

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

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, losing to the 19th-ranked archer 163-160 in the regulation 18 arrows. Berezhna finished 18th in women's individual archery. Berezhna was also a member of the 6th-place Ukrainian team in the women's team archery competition. 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 ...

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Berezhna finished her ranking round with a total of 627 points. This gave her the 38th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced

Zhang Juanjuan Zhang Juanjuan (; born January 2, 1981 in Qingdao, Shandong, People's Republic of China) is an archer from the People's Republic of China. Early and personal life Zhang was born on 2 January 1982 in the Chinese city of Qingdao in Shandong P ...

in the first round. The local

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home favourite who was the 27th seed would win the confrontation with 109-97 and would eventually go on to win the gold medal.Athlete biography: Tetyana Berezhna
beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 23 2008

References

1982 births Living people Olympic archers of Ukraine Archers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Ukrainian female archers 21st-century Ukrainian women {{Ukraine-archery-bio-stub