Evangelia Psarra

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Evangelia Psarra (Greek: Ευαγγελία Ψάρρα; born 17 June 1974[1] in Thessaloniki) is a Greek archer who has competed at the Summer Olympics six times from 2000 to 2020.[2]

Career

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Psarra entered the women's competition as Greece's best hope for a medal having finished eighteenth overall at the

Zekiye Keskin Satir, defeating her 163-161. Psarra then defeated 24th-ranked Almudena Gallardo of Spain 160-152, advancing to the quarterfinals, where she faced Park Sung-hyun of Korea. A poor shot with her first arrow however led to defeat against the South Korean, though Psarra said she did not feel disappointed with the result.[4]
The final score of 111-101 in the 12 arrow match placed Psarra 7th overall in women's individual archery. Psarra was also a member of the 5th-place Greek team in the women's team archery competition.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Psarra finished her ranking round with a total of 613 points. This gave her the 50th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Chen Ling in the first round. The local Chinese favourite archer won the confrontation with 110-101 and eliminated Psarra straight away.[5]

Psarra lost to Bombayla Devi Laishram of India in the first knockout round at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[6]

2016: Fifth Olympics

Psarra narrowly missed qualifying for the

Côte d'Ivoire in July however led to a vacant position, which was assigned to Greece as the highest ranked nation without an Olympic berth. The Greek National Olympic Committee subsequently nominated the 42-year-old Psarra for her fifth Olympic Games.[8]

Psarra entered Rio de Janeiro as the most experienced Olympian in the field, finishing the ranking round in fifty-fifth place. She was eliminated in the first round for her third Olympic Games in a row, losing to Japan's Kaori Kawanaka by seven set points to three.[9] Following the Olympics, Psarra was one of four archers to donate apparel and equipment used in Rio de Janeiro to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Evangelia Psarra". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 10 December 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Evangelia Psarra". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 15 January 2012.
  3. ^ "Acuff: Many athletes come to Olympics to party". ESPN.in. 9 August 2004. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  4. ^ Lopez, John (19 August 2004). "Echoes of past resonate in Panathinaiko Stadium". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  5. Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original
    on 7 September 2008. Retrieved 23 August 2008.
  6. ^ "London 2012 Women's Individual Archery". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 16 May 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  7. ^ Morgan, Liam (17 June 2016). "Last 11 individual recurve Rio 2016 quotas snapped up at Final Olympic Qualification Tournament". Inside the Games. Dunsar Media Company. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  8. ^ Wells, Chris (26 July 2016). "Greek archer Psarra added to Olympic start list". World Archery Federation. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  9. ^ a b Maitre Wicki, Ludivine (5 September 2016). "Archers donate arrows to Olympic Museum". World Archery Federation. Retrieved 2 December 2019.

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