Sayoko Kitabatake

Sayoko Kitabatake (born October 24 1978 in Higashiōsaka, Osaka) is an athlete from Japan who competes in archery.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing 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 faced Justyna Mospinek in the first round, beating the archer from Poland and 19th seed with 103-101. In the second round she was not able to win against French 14th seed Bérengère Schuh (112-100). [http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/7/229807.shtml Athlete biography: Sayoko Kitabatake] , beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 23 2008] Together with Nami Hayakawa and Yuki 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 the Colombian team with 206-199. However second seed Great Britain was too strong in the quarter final, beating Japan with 201-196.

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