Ana Rendón
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Ana María Rendón Martínez (born March 10, 1986 in Medellín
Medellín
Medellín , officially the Municipio de Medellín or Municipality of Medellín, is the second largest city in Colombia. It is in the Aburrá Valley, one of the more northerly of the Andes in South America. It has a population of 2.3 million...

) is a female athlete from Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

 who competes in archery
Archery
Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus. Archery has historically been used for hunting and combat; in modern times, however, its main use is that of a recreational activity...

.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

 Rendón finished her ranking round with a total of 647 points. This gave her the 10th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Elena Tonetta
Elena Tonetta
Elena Tonetta is an Italian archer.In 2005 she was the Junior European Champion, winning at Silkeborg . She won the second place in the final of the Junior World Cup, at Mérida in 2006...

 in the first round. Both archers scored 106 points in the regular match, but in the decisive extra round Rendón scored 10 points against 9 for Tonetta and advanced to the next round. There she won with 110-106 against Miroslava Dagbaeva
Miroslava Dagbaeva
Miroslava Dagbaeva is an athlete from Russia who competes in archery.-2008 Summer Olympics:At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Dagbaeva finished her ranking round with a total of 637 points. This gave her the 23rd seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Rina Dewi Puspitasari...

. In the round of 16 she could only score 95 points and as her opponent Khatuna Lorig
Khatuna Lorig
Khatuna Lorig is an American archer originally from the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic which is today the Republic of Georgia....

 scored 107 points Rendón was eliminated. Together with Natalia Sánchez
Natalia Sánchez (archer)
Natalia Sánchez Echeverri is a female athlete from Colombia who competes in archery.-2008 Summer Olympics:...

 and Sigrid Romero
Sigrid Romero
Sigrid Romero is an athlete from Colombia who competes in archery.-Early life:Romero was born in Cali, Colombia, the daughter of Ramon Romero and Patricia Duque....

 she also took part in the team event. With her 647 score from the ranking round combined with the 643 of Sánchez and the 551 of Romero the Colombian team was in tenth position after the ranking round. In the first round they faced the Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese team, but were unable to beat them. Japan advanced to the quarter finals with a 206-199 score.
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