Tuyana Norpolovna Dashidorzhieva (russian: Туяна Норполовна Дашидоржиева; born 14 April 1996) is a Russian competitive

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 ...

of Buryat ethnicity. She helped her fellow compatriots and experienced Olympians

Ksenia Perova Ksenia Vitalyevna Perova ( rus, Ксения Витальевна Перова, , ˈksʲenʲɪɪ̯ə pʲɪˈrovə; born 8 February 1989 in Lesnoy, Sverdlovsk Oblast) is a Russian female archer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed for her ...

and

Inna Stepanova Inna Yakovlevna Stepanova (russian: Инна Яковлевна Степанова; born 17 April 1990) is a Russian archer of Buryat ethnicity. Stepanova is a student of Physical Education at Buryat State University. Career At the 2012 Summe ...

secure a historic team recurve title at the 2015 World Championships in Copenhagen, a silver at the

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in Rio de Janeiro, and a bronze at the

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in Gwangju, completing a full set of medals throughout her sporting career in a major international competition. Dashidorzhieva rose to prominence in the global archery scene at the

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, South Korea. There, she and her compatriots Stepanova and Anna Balsukova teamed up to defeat Mexico 6–2 for their bronze-medal triumph in the women's team recurve tournament. Shortly after the Universiade, Dashidorzhieva contributed to the Russian trio's performance by narrowly dispatching the Indian women in a tie-breaker to end a 28-year-old interlude for their country's historic team recurve crown, and secure a full quota place for

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at the

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, Denmark. Dashidorzhieva was selected to compete for the Russian squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics in

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, shooting in both individual and team recurve tournaments. First, Dashidorzhieva discharged 654 points to lead the Russian trio for the fifth seed heading to the knockout draw, along with her team's score of 1,938 attained in the classification round. Sitting behind the South Koreans at second position in the women's team recurve, Dashidorzhieva and her teammates Stepanova and Perova could not overthrow their opponents from a possible historic streak of eight Olympic titles, as the Russian trio ended the tournament by taking the silver instead at 1–5. Few days later, in the women's individual recurve, Dashidorzhieva fought valiantly to dispose Bhutan's

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(7–3) from the opening round, before she succumbed to a 4–6 defeat in her subsequent match from the unheralded Chinese archer

Cao Hui Cao Hui (, born 7 September 1991) is a Chinese female recurve archer and part of the national team and Liaoning team. She won the bronze medal at the 2015 Asian Archery Championships in the women's team event. She represented China at the ...

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* Russian female archers Living people People from Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai 1996 births Buryat sportspeople World Archery Championships medalists Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic archers of Russia Olympic medalists in archery Olympic silver medalists for Russia Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in archery Universiade bronze medalists for Russia Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade Sportspeople from Zabaykalsky Krai {{Russia-archery-bio-stub