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Nuno Pombo (born 20 April 1978) is a Portuguese athlete 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 ...
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2008 Summer Olympics

At the
2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...
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Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...
Pombo finished his ranking round with a total of 650 points, which gave him the 42nd seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Yusuf Ergin in the first round. With 106-103 Ergin was the winner of the confrontation and Pombo was eliminated. Ergin would lose in the following round against
Lee Chang-Hwan Lee Chang-hwan (; born 16 March 1982) is a professional archer from South Korea. He competed in Archery at the 2006 Asian Games and won a gold medal with the men's team consisting of himself, Im Dong-hyun, Jang Yong-ho and ...
.Athlete biography: Nuno Pombo
beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 19 2008


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1978 births Living people Portuguese male archers Archers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for Portugal S.L. Benfica sportspeople {{Portugal-archery-bio-stub