Nami Hayakawa
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is an athlete from 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...

 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
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

 in Beijing
Beijing
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 Hayakawa finished her ranking round with a total of 649 points. This gave her the 9th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Elena Mousikou
Elena Mousikou
Elena Mousikou is an athlete from Cyprus who competes in archery.At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Mousikou finished her ranking round with a total of 589 points. This gave her the 56th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Nami Hayakawa in the first round...

 in the first round, beating the archer from Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

 with 112-103. In the second round she was too strong for Jennifer Nichols
Jennifer Nichols
Jennifer Nichols is an archer from the United States.Nichols started archery when she was twelve years old. At fifteen, she won the National Youth Archery Competition.-2004 Summer Olympics:...

 with 105-103 and via Naomi Folkard
Naomi Folkard
Naomi Anne Folkard is an archer from Leamington Spa, England. She is a music graduate from Birmingham University .-2004 Summer Olympics:...

 with 106-97 she reached the quarter finals. There she was eliminated with 112-103 by Park Sung-Hyun who would eventually win the silver medal. Together with Sayoko Kitabatake
Sayoko Kitabatake
is an athlete from Japan who competes in archery.-2008 Summer Olympics:At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Kitabatake finished her ranking round with a total of 616 points. This gave her the 46th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Justyna Mospinek in the first round,...

 and Yuki Hayashi
Yuki Hayashi
is an athlete from Japan who competes in archery.-2008 Summer Olympics:At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Hayashi finished her ranking round with a total of 616 points. This gave her the 48th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Kristina Esebua in the first round...

 she also took part in the team event. With her 649 score from the ranking round combined with the 616's of Kitabatake and Hayashi the Japanese team was in seventh position after the ranking round. In the first round they eliminated the Colombia
Colombia
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n team with 206-199. However second seed Great Britain
Great Britain
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was too strong in the quarter final, beating Japan with 201-196.
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