Helen Palmer (archer)
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Helen Palmer (born 19 September 1974<ref>Template:Cite web Template:Subscription required</ref>) is a British recurve archer who represented Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Prior to winning selection to the British Olympic archery team, Palmer had been a member of the British team that concluded the 2003 World Archery Championships in third place.<ref name="BBC Sport 2004">Template:Cite web</ref> In Athens she finished in sixty-first place in the preliminary 72-arrow ranking round, which determined the seedings for the subsequent elimination rounds of the women's individual event, setting up a first round encounter with 1996 Olympic silver medalist He Ying of China.<ref name="The Guardian 2004">Template:Cite news</ref> Over the sixteen-arrow match He outscored Palmer by 141 points to 130, eliminating Palmer from the event.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Palmer and her teammates Naomi Folkard and Alison Williamson also failed to advance beyond the first elimination stage of the team competition after losing to India by 230 points to 228.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
At the time of the 2004 Olympics, Palmer was a senior marketing manager with Alliance and Leicester bank,<ref name="BBC Sport 2004"/> and a member of the Long Mynd Archers club in Church Stretton, Shropshire.<ref name="The Guardian 2004"/>