is an athlete from Japan who competes in

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2008 Summer Olympics

At the

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Hayashi finished her ranking round with a total of 616 points. This gave her the 48th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced

Kristina Esebua Kristine Esebua ( ka, ქრისტინე ესებუა; born 19 March 1985, Khobi) is a sportsperson from the nation of Georgia. She has competed at four Olympic Games in archery. 2004 Summer Olympics Esebua represented Georgia at t ...

in the first round. The archer from

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and Hayashi both scored 102 points in the regular match. In the decisive extra round Esebua scored 9 points, while Hayashi came to 8 points and was eliminated.Athlete biography: Yuki Hayashi
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Sayoko Kitabatake is an athlete from Japan who competes in archery. She competed under her birth name Sayoko Kawauchi (川内紗代子) at the 2004 Olympics. Kawauchi represented Japan at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 53rd in the women's individual rankin ...

and

Nami Hayakawa is an athlete from Japan who competes in archery. She was the 2007 World Indoor Women’s Recurve Champion in the competition held in Izmir, Turkey that year. Personal life Nami has a younger sister, Ren who is also an Olympic archer and competed ...

she also took part in the team event. With her 616 score from the ranking round combined with the 616 of Kitabatake and the 649 of Hayakawa the Japanese team was in seventh position after the ranking round. In the first round they eliminated the

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n team with 206-199. However second seed

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was too strong in the quarter final, beating Japan with 201-196. Yuki Hayashi is employed in the legal department of HORIBA CO., the Kyoto-based electronics and metrology industrial firm. In 2018, she was a member of the Japan National Archery Team.

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* * 1984 births Living people Olympic archers of Japan Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Japanese female archers Asian Games medalists in archery Archers at the 2010 Asian Games Archers at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games {{Japan-archery-bio-stub