Bérengère Schuh (born 13 June 1984 in

Auxerre Auxerre ( , , Burgundian language (Oïl), Burgundian: ''Auchoirre'') is the capital (Prefectures in France, prefecture) of the Yonne Departments of France, department and the fourth-largest city in the Burgundy historical region southeast of Par ...

) is an athlete from France. She competes in

archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a Bow and arrow, bow to shooting, shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting ...

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

Schuh represented France at the

. She placed 31st in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 626. In the first round of elimination, she faced 34th-ranked Elpida Romantzi of Greece. Schuh lost 151–143 in the 18-arrow match, placing 43rd overall in women's individual archery. Schuh was also a member of the 4th-place French team in the women's team archery competition.

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Schuh finished her ranking round with a total of 645 points. This gave her the 14th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Pia Carmen Maria Lionetti in the first round, beating the archer from Italy with 112–107. In the second round she had no problem beating

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 ...

with 112–100, but in the third round she was unable to surprise third seed

Joo Hyun-Jung Joo Hyun-jung (; , born 3 May 1982) is a professional former world number one archer from South Korea. 2008 Summer Olympics At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Joo finished her ranking round with a total of 664 points, ni ...

and was eliminated with 109–104. Together with Sophie Dodemont and Virginie Arnold she also took part in the team event. With her 645 score from the ranking round combined with the 632 of Dodemont and the 626 of Arnold 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 Polish team. In the semi-final against South Korea 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 Great Britain 203–201 to claim the bronze.

2012 Olympics

She reached the quarterfinals of the women's individual event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, knocking out Kaori Kawanaka, Lin Jia-En and Choi Hyeon-Ju before losing 6 -2 to Khatuna Lorig in the quarter-final.

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