Kaori Kawanaka

Kaori Kawanaka

Medal record
Women's recurve archery
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London Team
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Incheon Team
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Team
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Tehran Team
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Taipei Team

Kaori Kawanaka (川中 香緒里, Kawanaka Kaori, born August 3, 1991[1]) is a Japanese archer who competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games.

Kawanaka won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's team event with teammates Ren Hayakawa and Miki Kanie. Their success, which came after a narrow victory over Russia in the third-place match, marked the first Olympic medal for Japan in team archery.[2] Kawanaka was less successful in the women's individual event, losing in the opening elimination round.[3]

Kawanaka has contested the Asian Games twice. She was the flagbearer for the Japanese team at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Asian Games,[4] and later won bronze in the women's team recurve competition with Hayakawa and Yuki Hayashi.[5]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she again competed in the individual and team events, reaching the second round in the individual event, and the quarterfinal in the women's team event.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Kaori Kawanaka". London 2012. London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Japan's female archers win bronze". The Japan Times. 31 July 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Hayakawa, Kanie eliminated in women's archery". The Japan Times. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  4. ^ Kasai, Teppai (11 September 2014). "Women front and center of Japan's Asian Games team". Reuters. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Indian women's team finishes 4th in recurve archery". Business Standard. Indo-Asian News Service. 28 September 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  6. ^ "Kaori Kawanaka Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 14 January 2020.


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