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| Asian Championships | ||
 | 2007 Xi'an | Team |
Sayoko Kitabatake (北畠 紗代子,Kitabatake Sayoko; born October 24, 1978 inHigashiōsaka, Osaka) is an athlete fromJapan who competes inarchery. She competed under her birth nameSayoko Kawauchi (川内 紗代子) at the 2004 Olympics.[1]
Kawauchi represented Japan at the2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 53rd in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 601. In the first round of elimination, she faced 12th-rankedNataliya Burdeyna ofUkraine. Kawauchi defeated Burdeyna, winning 137-129 in the 18-arrow match to advance to the round of 32. In that round, she facedAlison Williamson ofGreat Britain, losing to the 21st-ranked and eventualbronze medalist archer 154-150 in the regulation 18 arrows. Kawauchi finished 26th in women's individual archery.[2]
Kawauchi was also a member of the 14th-place Japanese women's archery team.
At the2008 Summer Olympics inBeijing 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 facedJustyna Mospinek in the first round, beating the archer fromPoland and 19th seed with 103-101. In the second round she was not able to win againstFrench 14th seedBérengère Schuh (112-100).[3] Together withNami Hayakawa andYuki Hayashi she also took part in the team event. With her 616 score from the ranking round combined with the 616 of Hayashi and the 649 of Hayakawa the Japanese team was in seventh position after the ranking round. In the first round they eliminated theColombian team with 206-199. However second seedGreat Britain was too strong in the quarter-final, beating Japan with 201-196.[3][2]
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