(born February 28, 1985, in

Kishiwada, Osaka is a Cities of Japan, city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 190,853 in 88,598 households and a population density of 2,600 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . The city is well known for ...

) is an athlete from

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, who competes 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 ...

2008 Summer Olympics

At the

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Moriya finished his ranking round with a total of 661 points, which gave him the 22nd seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced

Piotr Piątek Piotr Piątek (born 17 February 1982 in Żywiec) is an athlete from Poland, who competes in archery. 2008 Summer Olympics At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Piątek finished his ranking round with a total of 649 points, which gave him the 43rd ...

in the first round. Both archers scored 109 points in the regular match, but with 10 points in the extra round against 9 from Piątek, Moriya advanced to the second round. Moriya reached the quarter-final by beating Wang Cheng-Pang (114-109) and

Balzhinima Tsyrempilov Balzhinima Tsyrenzhapovich Tsyrempilov (, ''Balzhinimá Tsyrenzhápovich Tsyrempílov'', born April 9, 1975, in Ulekchin, Zakamensky District, Buryatia) is a World Cup-winning and former world number one Buryat archer from Russia. 2004 Summe ...

(113-110). In the quarter-final

Viktor Ruban Viktor Hennadiyovych Ruban (; born 24 May 1981 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is an Archery at the Summer Olympics, Olympic gold medal winning former World Archery Rankings#Number one ranked archers, world ...

was too strong with 115-106. Ruban would go on and win the gold medal in the tournament., beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 18 2008 Moriya won the individual men's recurve (Olympic bow) Silver Medal in the 2005 World Archery Championship in Madrid, Spain.

References

1985 births Living people Japanese male archers Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for Japan Sportspeople from Kishiwada, Osaka Archers at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Japan {{Japan-archery-bio-stub