Michael Naray (born 3 August 1970 in Sydney, Australia) is an Olympic competitor for archery representing Australia. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. [1]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Naray finished his ranking round with a total of 658 points. This gave him the 30th seed for the final competition bracket, in which he faced Jean-Charles Valladont in the first round, beating the French archer 108–106. In the second round, Naray was eliminated by Viktor Ruban (115-105), who would eventually win the gold medal. [2]
Together with Sky Kim and Matthew Gray he also took part in the team event. With his 658 score from the ranking round combined with the 666 of Kim and the 654 of Gray, the Australians were in 9th position after the ranking round. In the first round they were defeated by eight seed Poland (223-218, the Poles had set the Olympic record with their 223 score). The Polish would not go on to progress further than the quarter-finals. [2]
Im Dong-hyun is a South Korean archer. He competes for the South Korean national team and is a former world number one. He has 20/200 vision in his left eye and 20/100 vision in his right eye, meaning he needs to be 10 times closer to see objects clearly with his left eye, compared to someone with perfect vision.
Yuan Shu-chi is an athlete from the Republic of China. She competes in archery.
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Michael Venus is a New Zealand professional tennis player. He has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 6, achieved on 29 August 2022. Venus won the 2017 French Open men's doubles partnering Ryan Harrison, and followed with a runner-up finish in the 2017 US Open mixed doubles partnering Chan Hao-ching. Venus and Harrison qualified for the year-end championships ATP Finals, where they reached the semifinals.
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