2008 Summer Olympics
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Mospinek finished her ranking round with a total of 643 points. This gave her the 19th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Sayoko Kitabutake in the first round. Despite Kitabutake being only the 46th seed, she managed to upset Mospinek with a 103-101 win. Together with Małgorzata Ćwienczek and Iwona Marcinkiewicz she also took part in the team event. With her 643 score from the ranking round combined with the 645 of Ćwienczek and the 620 of Marcinkiewicz the Polish team was in fourth position after the ranking round, which gave them a straight seed into the quarter final. There they were beaten by the French team with 218-211. The French eventually won the bronze medal.
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