Team South Africa’s Karen Hultzer starts the 2012 Olympic Games archery competition proper with a ranking of 46th, writes Mark Etheridge.
That’s after the Cape Town archer took part in the ranking round at Lord’s Cricket Ground on Friday.
She shot a score of 631. This after a first half effort of 319 (that saw her sitting at 38th) but she dropped back after a second half effort of 312 (52nd best).
Sixty-four archers started the competition with Republic of Korea duo of Bo Bae Ki and Sung Jin Lee and Ya-Ting Tan of Taiwan all shooting 671 to lead the ranking round.
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