- Iwona Marcinkiewicz
Iwona Marcinkiewicz (born
23 May 1975 inWarsaw ) (maiden name Iwona Dzięcioł) is an athlete fromPoland . She competes inarchery .Marcinkiewicz represented Poland at the
1996 Summer Olympics ,2004 Summer Olympics and2008 Summer Olympics .1996 Summer Olympics
At 1996 Summer Olympics she placed 57th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 599. In the first round of elimination, she faced 8th-ranked
Kim Kyung-Wook of Korea and lost 157-164 in the 18-arrow match to the future Olympic gold medalist. Dzięcioł finished 33rd in women's individual archery. In team competition, together withJoanna Nowicka andKatarzyna Klata , she defeatedRussia 233-229. Then in the quarterfinals, her team defeatedUkraine 242-235. In the semifinals, her Polish team lost to Korea 237-245. In the third place match, Marcinkiewicz's team defeatedTurkey 244-139, winning a bronze medal.2004 Summer Olympics
At 2004 Summer Olympics she placed 28th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 628. In the first round of elimination, she faced 37th-ranked
Yukari Kawasaki ofJapan . Marcinkiewicz defeated Kawasaki, winning 119-106 in the 18-arrow match to advance to the round of 32. In that round, she facedZhang Juanjuan of China, losing to the 5th-ranked archer 166-157 in the regulation 18 arrows. She finished 20th in women's individual archery. Marcinkiewicz was also a member of the 15th-place Polish women's archery team, together withJustyna Mospinek andMałgorzata Sobieraj .2008 Summer Olympics
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing Marcinkiewicz finished her ranking round with a total of 620 points. This gave her the 43rd seed for the final competition bracket in which she facedLaishram Bombaya Devi in the first round, beating the 22nd seed archer fromIndia with 103-101. She came close to beat 11th seedNatalia Erdyniyeva in the second round, but 103 points was not enough against her 104 score. [http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/7/212617.shtml Athlete biography: Iwona Marcinkiewicz] , beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 23 2008] Together withMałgorzata Ćwienczek andJustyna Mospinek she also took part in the team event. With her 620 score from the ranking round combined with the 645 of Ćwienczek and the 643 of Marcinkiewicz the Polish team was in fourth position after the ranking round, which gave them a straight seed into the quarter final. There they were beaten by the French team with 218-211. The French eventually won the bronze medal.
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