Lilies Handayani (born 15 April 1965 in

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) is an Indonesian former

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 ...

who was part of the team that won the first ever

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medal for Indonesia. Together with Nurfitriyana Saiman and Kusuma Wardhani she won the silver medal in the team competition at the

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. Her career continued to soar until 2008 when she stopped and focused on becoming a coach and managed the archery school she had pioneered before.

Lilies Handayani's Archery School

Lilies Handayani together with her husband Denny Trisyanto set up an archery school named Lilies Handayani Srikandi Archery School (LHSAS). It is located in Surabaya.

In popular culture

*Portrayed by Chelsea Islan in the 2016

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n film '' 3 Srikandi''.

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1965 births Living people Indonesian female archers Olympic archers for Indonesia Archers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Indonesia Sportspeople from Surabaya Olympic medalists in archery Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics SEA Games gold medalists for Indonesia SEA Games medalists in archery Competitors at the 2005 SEA Games 20th-century Indonesian sportswomen 21st-century Indonesian women {{Indonesia-archery-bio-stub