Veronique Marrier D'Unienville-Le Vieux (born 18 July 1967) is an athlete from

Mauritius Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Ag ...

who 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 ...

. At the

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Marrier D'Unienville finished her ranking round with a total of 605 points. This gave her the 53rd seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced

Aida Román ''Aida'' (or ''Aïda'', ) is a tragic opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 Dec ...

in the first round. The archer from

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was too strong and won the confrontation with 108-97, eliminating Marrier D'Unienville straight away.Athlete biography: Veronique M. D'Unienville
beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 23 2008

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* 1967 births Living people Mauritian people of French descent Olympic archers for Mauritius Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Mauritian female archers People from Plaines Wilhems District {{Archery-bio-stub