Rafał Dobrowolski (born 27 December 1983 in

Kielce Kielce (; ) is a city in south-central Poland and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In 2021, it had 192,468 inhabitants. The city is in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), on the banks of the Silnic ...

) 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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Dobrowolski finished his ranking round with a total of 667 points, which gave him the 13th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Nay Myo Aung in the first round, in which he beat the archer from

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110-106. In the second round Dobrowolski was too strong for Oleksandr Serdyuk. After a 111-111 draw Dobrowolski scored 9 points in the extra round, with Serdyuk scoring eight. In the third round he was unable to beat Park Kyung-Mo (113-105) and was eliminated.Athlete biography: Rafal Dobrowolski
beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 17 2008 Together with

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 ...

and Jacek Proć he also took part in the team event. With his 667 score from the ranking round combined with the 649 of Piątek and the 661 of Proć the Polish were in eighth position after the ranking round. In the first round they were too strong for the

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n team, but they were not capable enough to beat

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in the quarter-finals.

References

1983 births Living people Polish male archers Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for Poland Sportspeople from Kielce Summer World University Games medalists in archery FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Poland Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade 21st-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-archery-bio-stub