Kristine Esebua ( ka, ქრისტინე ესებუა; born 19 March 1985,

Khobi Khobi ( ka, ხობი) is a town in western Georgia with a population of 4,242. The settlement of Khobi acquired the status of a town in 1981 and currently functions as an administrative center of the Khobi District within the Samegrelo-Zem ...

) is an archer from the nation of

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who now represents

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. She has competed at four Olympic Games in

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

. In 2019, Esebua was forced to leave Georgia and moved to

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, Canada.

Career

Georgia

;2004 Summer Olympics Esebua represented Georgia at the

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. She placed 22nd in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 636. In the first round of elimination, she faced 43rd-ranked

Reena Kumari Reena Kumari (born 15 January 1984) is an athlete from India who competes in archery. Kumari represented India at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 43rd in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 620. In the first ...

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. Esebua lost 153–149 in the 18-arrow match, falling to 40th overall in women's individual archery. ;2008 Summer Olympics At the

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Esebua finished her ranking round with a total of 643 points. This gave her the 17th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Yuki Hayashi in the first round. Both archers scored 102 points in the regular match and a decisive extra round had to make the difference. In this extra round Esebua scored nine points and Hayashi eight, giving Esebua the ticket to the second round. There she hit another 102 points, but her opponent

Elpida Romantzi Elpida Romantzi (born July 17, 1981 in Thessalonica) is an archer from Greece. She placed 34th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 624 at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In the first round of elimination, she faced 11th-ran ...

did the same and yet again the match had to be decided with an extra round. This time it was Romantzi who advanced to the next round as she hit ten points against nine of Esebua who was eliminated. ;2012 Summer Olympics At the

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, Esebua was 34th after the ranking round. She beat

Denisse van Lamoen Denisse Astrid van Lamoen (born 12 September 1979) is a Chilean archer. In 2000, she became the first Chilean archer to compete at the Summer Olympics, but after failing a drug test in 2002 she left archery to study law. She later returned to th ...

in the first round, before losing to

Lee Sung-Jin Lee Sung-jin (; born March 7, 1985) is a recurve archer from South Korea. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, winning in the women's team event at the 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics. In 2005, she became the women's individual recurve cha ...

in the second. ;2016 Summer Olympics Esebua represented Georgia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in

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Canada

After arriving in Canada, Esebua gave birth to twins and returned to competition in 2023. In April 2024, Esebua earned Canada an individual Olympics quota for the

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