Wu Jiaxin ( zh, s=吴佳欣, p=Wú Jiāxīn; born February 28, 1997) is a Chinese 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 ...

. She has won a career total of two medals, a silver and a bronze, on her international archery debut at the 2013 World Youth Championships in

Wuxi Wuxi (, ) is a city in southern Jiangsu province, eastern China, by car to the northwest of downtown Shanghai, between Changzhou and Suzhou. In 2017 it had a population of 3,542,319, with 6,553,000 living in the entire prefecture-level city ar ...

, and eventually finished as a quarter-finalist in the individual recurve tournament at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

Career

Wu was selected to compete for the Chinese squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, shooting in both individual and team recurve tournaments. She opened the tournament by discharging 653 points, 15 perfect tens, and 10 bull's eyes to lead the Chinese women for the sixth seed heading to the knockout draw from the classification round, along with her trio's cumulative score of 1,933. In the women's team recurve, Wu and her compatriots

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 ...

and Qi Yuhong directly advanced to the quarterfinals as the third-seeded squad, but they were eliminated early by the Italian women in a shocking 3–5 match. Rebounding from the trio's quarterfinal exit, Wu successfully reached the top eight of the women's individual recurve by defeating Japan's Yuki Hayashi (7–1), Moldova's Alexandra Mîrca (6–0), and her teammate Qi through a tight shoot-off. However, she was unable to spoil South Korea's

Ki Bo-bae Ki Bo-bae (Hangul: 기보배; or ; born February 20, 1988) is a South Korean recurve archer and three-time Olympic gold medalist. She was the winner of the women's team and women's individual events at the 2012 Summer Olympics and of the wom ...

from her Olympic title defense, culminating Wu's maiden Games in an unworthy 2–6 defeat.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wu, Jiaxin Chinese female archers Living people Sportspeople from Beijing 1997 births Olympic archers for China Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Chinese women 21st-century Chinese people