Virginie Arnold (born 24 December 1979 in

Biscarrosse Biscarrosse (; oc, Biscarròssa) is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It is located southwest of Bordeaux, and inland from the seaside resort of Biscarrosse-Plage on the Atlantic coast. Near Bis ...

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) is a

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from

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. She was a bronze medalist in the women's team event at the

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. At the

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Arnold finished her ranking round with a total of 626 points. This gave her the 39th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced

Khatuna Lorig Khatuna Lorig (; born January 1, 1974, as Khatuna Kvrivishvili, ka, ხათუნა ქვრივიშვილი) is a Georgian archer who immigrated to the United States. She has used at least 3 different last names while competing i ...

in the first round. Lorig won the confrontation between the 39th and 26th seed with 107-105 and Arnold was eliminated. Together with

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and Sophie Dodemont she also took part in the team event. With her 626 score from the ranking round combined with the 645 of Schuh and the 632 of Dodemont the French team was in fifth position after the ranking round, which gave them a straight seed into the quarter-finals. With 218-211 they were too strong for the

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team. In the semi-final against

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they scored only 184 points with the Koreans scoring 213, missing out on the final. They recovered in the bronze medal match and won against

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203–201 to claim the bronze.

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* 1979 births Living people French female archers Olympic archers for France Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for France Olympic medalists in archery Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Landes (department) {{France-archery-bio-stub