Elpida Romantzi

Last updated

Elpida Romantzi (born July 17, 1981 in Thessalonica) is an archer from Greece.

She placed 34th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 624 at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In the first round of elimination, she faced 11th-ranked Bérengère Schuh of France. Romantzi defeated Schuh, winning 151-143 in the 18-arrow match to advance to the round of 32. In that round, she faced Lee Sung Jin of Korea, losing to the 2nd-ranked and eventual silver medalist archer 166-146. Romantzi finished 31st in women's individual archery. Romantzi was also a member of the 5th-place Greek team in the women's team archery competition.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Romantzi finished her ranking round with a total of 614 points. This gave her the 49th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced 16th seed Zekiye Keskin Satir in the first round, beating the archer from Turkey with 105-103. In the second round she was too strong for Kristine Esebua after both archers scored 102 points in the regular match and a 10-9 score in the decisive extra round. Romantzi was eliminated in the third round by first seed Park Sung-hyun with 115-103, with the 115 being a new Olympic Record. [1]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Natalia Valeeva</span> Italian archer

Natalia Valeeva is a naturalized Italian archer. She is a five-time Olympian and former world number one, and a native of Moldova, having represented the Unified Team, Moldova and Italy, at the Olympic Games of 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012. She won the individual and team bronze medals in the 1992 Olympic Games.

Khatuna Narimanidze is an athlete from Georgia. She competes in archery.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bérengère Schuh</span> French archer

Bérengère Schuh is an athlete from France. She competes in archery.

Kristine Esebua is a sportsperson from the nation of Georgia. She has competed at four Olympic Games in archery.

Małgorzata Sobieraj, formerly Ćwienczek (2005–2011) is a Polish archer. She represented Poland at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.

Anja Hitzler is an athlete from Germany. She is a professional soldier and competes in archery.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Iwona Marcinkiewicz</span> Polish archer

Iwona Marcinkiewicz is an athlete from Poland. She competes in archery.

Tetyana Mykolayivna Berezhna is an archer from Ukraine.

Zekiye Keskin Şatır is a Turkish athlete competing in archery. She is coached by Cumhur Yavaş and is a member of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Sport Club.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zhang Juanjuan</span> Chinese archer

Zhang Juanjuan is an archer from the People's Republic of China.

Jennifer L. Nichols Hardy is an archer from the United States. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Nichols started archery when she was twelve years old and at fifteen she won the National Youth Archery Competition.

Evangelia Psarra is a Greek archer who has competed at the Summer Olympics six times from 2000 to 2020.

Wu Hui-ju is an athlete from Republic of China. She competes in archery.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yuan Shu-chi</span> Taiwanese archer

Yuan Shu-chi is an athlete from the Republic of China. She competes in archery.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lee Sung-jin</span> South Korean archer

Lee Sung-jin is a recurve archer from South Korea. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, winning in the women's team event at the 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics. In 2005, she became the women's individual recurve champion at the World Championships and achieved the world number one spot for female recurve archers in the World Archery Rankings. In 2016, the World Archery Federation named her as the ninth best Olympic archer in the history of the Games.

Virginie Arnold is a archer from France. She was a bronze medalist in the women's team event at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Nami Hayakawa is an athlete from Japan who competes in archery. She was the 2007 World Indoor Women’s Recurve Champion in the competition held in Izmir, Turkey that year.

Sayoko Kitabatake is an athlete from Japan who competes in archery. She competed under her birth name Sayoko Kawauchi at the 2004 Olympics.

Rina Dewi Puspitasari is an athlete from Indonesia. She competes in archery.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Archery at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's individual</span>

The women's individual archery event at the 2012 Olympic Games was held from 27 July to 2 August 2012 at Lord's Cricket Ground in London in the United Kingdom. The event was one of four which comprised the 2012 Olympic archery programme of sports and was the eleventh time the women's individual competition was contested as an Olympic event. Forty different nations qualified for the competition, sending a total of sixty-four archers to compete. The defending Olympic champion from 2008 was Zhang Juanjuan of China, who did not compete following her retirement in 2010.

References

  1. Athlete biography: Elpida Romantzi, beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 23 2008