Rovereto
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archer
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In 2005, she was the Junior European Champion, winning at
Silkeborg
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Castenaso
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Tonetta finished her ranking round with a total of 595 points. This gave her the 55th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced 10th seed
Ana Rendón
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Career 2008 Summer Olympics
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in the first round. The archer from
Colombia
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was too strong, but only after an extra round as both archers scored a 106 score in the regular match. In the extra round Rendón scored 10 points and Tonetta 9.Athlete biography: Elena Tonetta beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 23 2008 Together with
Natalia Valeeva
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and
Pia Carmen Lionetti
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she also took part in the team event. With her 595 score from the ranking round combined with the 634 of Valeeva and the 613 of Lionetti the Italian team was in 9th position after the ranking round. In the first round they were too strong for the team from
Chinese Taipei
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, beating them 215–211. However, in the quarter-final they were eliminated by the eventual gold medalists from
South Korea
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, despite a 217-point score. The Koreans managed to shoot a new world record of 231 points to advance to the semi-final.