Nathalie Dielen (born 18 March 1966, 163 cm / 5'4", 73 kg / 161 lbs) is an athlete from

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who competes in

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. She was formerly in a junior curling team. At the

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Dielen finished her ranking round with a total of 601 points. This gave her the 54th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced

Natalia Erdyniyeva Natalia Erdyniyeva (russian: Ната́лья Константи́новна Эрдыни́ева, ''Natálya Konstantínovna Erdyníyeva''; born August 6, 1988 in Ulan-Ude, Buryatia) is a Russian archer of the Buryat-Mongol ethnicity. Natalia i ...

in the first round. The archer from

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was too strong and eliminated Dielen with a 107-102 score straight away.Athlete biography: Nathalie Dielen
beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 23 2008 At the

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, Dielen qualified at rank 62 out of 64 and was eliminated in the 1st round by the Chinese Taipei archer

Tan Ya-Ting Tan Ya-ting (; born 7 November 1993) is an archer who represents Chinese Taipei. She is a three-time Olympian, having participated at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. She has additionally competed in the Worl ...

. Her husband, Tom Dielen, is the secretary general of archery’s world governing body, which is known as World Archery.

References

link Official website Nathalie Dielen
1966 births Living people Olympic archers for Switzerland Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swiss female archers Archers at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Switzerland 21st-century Swiss women {{Switzerland-archery-bio-stub