Jennifer L. Nichols Hardy (born October 4, 1983) 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 mo ...

from the

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. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Nichols started archery when she was twelve years old and at fifteen she won the National Youth Archery Competition.

2004 Summer Olympics

Nichols represented the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 19th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 638. In the first round of elimination, she faced 46th-ranked

Puspitasari Rina Dewi Rina Dewi Puspitasari (born 5 October 1985 in East Jawa) is an athlete from Indonesia. She competes in archery. Puspitasari represented Indonesia at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 46th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arro ...

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. Nichols defeated Puspitasari 160-141 in the 18-arrow match to advance to the round of 32. In that round, she faced 14th-ranked

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archer

Tetyana Berezhna Tetyana Mykolayivna Berezhna ( uk, Тетяна Миколаївна Бережна; born 13 November 1982) is an archer from Ukraine. Berezhna represented Ukraine at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 14th in the women's individual ran ...

. Nichols won the match 163-160 in the regulation 18 arrows, advancing to the round of 16. She then lost to 3rd-ranked

Yun Mi Jin Yun Mi-jin (윤미진; born April 30, 1983) is an archer from South Korea who has won three Olympic gold medals and is a former world number one. She holds the Olympic record for a women's 18-arrow match, at 173 out of ...

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168-162, finishing 9th in women's individual archery. She has been featured in Vogue Magazine.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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Nichols finished her ranking round with a total of 637 points. This gave her the 24th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced

Ika Yuliana Rochmawati Ika Yuliana Rochmawati (born 2 July 1989) is an Indonesian archer. She competed in the individual recurve event at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics with the best result of ninth place in 2012. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Rochmawati f ...

in the first round, beating the archer from

with 114-101. In the second round she came close, but was unable to upset 9th seed

Nami Hayakawa is an athlete from Japan who competes in archery. She was the 2007 World Indoor Women’s Recurve Champion in the competition held in Izmir, Turkey that year. Personal life Nami has a younger sister, Ren who is also an Olympic archer and compet ...

and lost the match with 105-103.

2012 Summer Olympics

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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Nichols lost out to Bishindi Urantagula of

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in the round of sixteen.

Personal life

Nichols married Chris Hardy in September 2012.

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