Viktoriya Oleksandrivna Koval ( uk, Вікторія Олександрівна Коваль; born June 11, 1985) is an athlete from

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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 ...

2008 Summer Olympics

At the

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Koval finished her ranking round with a total of 641 points. This gave her the 21st seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced

Barbora Horáčková Barbora Horáčková (15 January 1969, in Ostrava – 8 April 2018) was an athlete from the Czech Republic who competed in archery. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Horáčková finished her ranking round with a total of 620 points. This gav ...

in the first round, beating the archer from the

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with 109–107. In the second round she was eliminated by 12th seed Aida Román with 111–105., beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 23 2008

References

1985 births Living people Olympic archers of Ukraine Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Ukrainian female archers National University of Kharkiv alumni Universiade medalists in archery Universiade bronze medalists for Ukraine Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade 21st-century Ukrainian women {{Ukraine-archery-bio-stub