Markiyan Ivashko
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Markiyan Ivashko is an athlete from Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

. He competes in archery
Archery
Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus. Archery has historically been used for hunting and combat; in modern times, however, its main use is that of a recreational activity...

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2008 Summer Olympics

At the 2008 Summer Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

 in Beijing
Beijing
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 Ivashko finished his ranking round with a total of 658 points. This gave him the 32nd seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Daniel Morillo
Daniel Morillo
Daniel Morillo is an athlete from Spain, who competes in archery.-2008 Summer Olympics:At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Morillo finished his ranking round with a total of 657 points, which gave him the 33rd seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Markiyan Ivashko in the...

 in the first round. The Spanish
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 archer won the match by 115-107. Morillo would be eliminated in the following round by Juan René Serrano
Juan Rene Serrano
Juan René Serrano Gutiérrez is an athlete from Mexico. He competes in archery.Serrano competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32. In the second round of elimination, he was defeated...

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Together with Oleksandr Serdyuk
Oleksandr Serdyuk
Oleksandr Serdyuk is an athlete from Ukraine. He competes in archery.-2004 Summer Olympics:Serdyuk competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32. In the second round of elimination, he was again victorious and advanced to...

 and Viktor Ruban
Viktor Ruban
Viktor Ruban is an athlete from Ukraine, who competes in archery.-2004 Summer Olympics:Ruban competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32; he also won his second match, advancing to the round of 16...

 he also took part in the team event. With his 658 score from the ranking round combined with the 678 of Ruban and the 676 of Serdyuk the Ukraine were in second position after the ranking round, which gave them a straigh seed into the quarter finals. With 214-211 they were too strong for the Chinese Taipei
Chinese Taipei
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 team, but in the semi final they were eliminated by Italy
Italy
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 223-221. In the challenge for the bronze medal China
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was too strong with 222-219.
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