2008 Summer Olympics
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Yuan finished her ranking round with a total of 652 points. This gave her the sixth seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Lexie Feeney in the first round, beating the archer from Australia 104-101. In the second round Yuan was surprised by 27th seed and local Chinese favourite Zhang Juanjuan with the Chinese winning the match 110-105. Zhang would eventually go on to win the gold in the tournament. Together with Wu Hui-Ju and Wei Pi-Hsiu she also took part in the team event. With her 652 score from the ranking round combined with the 634 of Wu and the 585 of Wei the Chinese Taipei team was in eighth position after the ranking round. In the first round they faced the Italian team, but were unable to beat them. Italy advanced to the quarter finals with a 215-211 score.
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