Alexandra Feeney (born 3 July 1989 in Penrith) is an athlete from Australia who competes in archery. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. [1]
The 2005 Italian Grand Prix may well be the watershed competition for Australia's female archers. After qualifying strongly Lexie Feeney won through her first round match but found it a little tougher going in the next round against Frigeri(ITA) who was supported by the home crowd. Despite this Lexie showed great composure and maturity to come away with a good win. Lexie shot against Mospinek (POL) for the top prize, but despite her best efforts wasn't able to match it with the Pole. The final result saw Lexie win the silver medal and become the Australian Institute or Sport Archery Program's first female international medal.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Feeney finished her ranking round with a total of 580 points. This gave her the 59th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Yuan Shu-Chi in the first round. The archer from Chinese Taipei was too strong and won the confrontation with 104–101, eliminating Feeney straight away. [2]
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi Feeney finished her ranking round with a total of 625 points. Feeney progressed to the quarter finals in which she faced Deepika Kumari the top ranked archery from India. Feeney's final ranking for the Games was 8th.
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.
Bérengère Schuh is an athlete from France. She competes in archery.
Iwona Marcinkiewicz is an athlete from Poland. She competes in archery.
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.
Naomi Anne Folkard is a British archer who has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games five times between 2004 and 2020. She has also represented Great Britain at the World Archery Championships and the Archery World Cup, and England at the Commonwealth Games.
Zhang Juanjuan is an archer from the People's Republic of China.
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.
Yuan Shu-chi is an athlete from the Republic of China. She competes in archery.
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.
Yun Ok-hee is a South Korean archer, who won the gold medal in the team and a silver in the individual competition at the 2006 Asian Games and is a former world number one.
Elena Tonetta is an Italian archer.
Sophie Dodemont is a archer from France.
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