Fotini Vavatsi (born 16 March 1974, in

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...

) is an

archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern ...

from

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

. She represented Greece at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

. She placed 51st in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 609. In the first round of elimination, she faced 15th-ranked Tetyana Berezhna of

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

. Vavatsi lost 160–156 in the 18-arrow match, placing 35th overall in women's individual archery. Vavatsi was also a member of the 5th-place Greek team in the women's team archery competition.

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1974 births Living people Greek female archers Archers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for Greece Sportspeople from Thessaloniki {{Greece-archery-bio-stub