At the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing Hayakawa finished her ranking round with a total of 649 points. This gave her the 9th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced
Elena Mousikou in the first round, beating the archer from
Cyprus with 112-103. In the second round she was too strong for
Jennifer Nichols with 105-103 and via
Naomi Folkard with 106-97 she reached the quarter-finals. There she was eliminated with 112-103 by
Park Sung-hyun who would eventually win the silver medal. Together with
Sayoko Kitabatake and
Yuki Hayashi she also took part in the team event. With her 649 score from the ranking round combined with the 616's of Kitabatake and Hayashi the Japanese team was in seventh position after the ranking round. In the first round they eliminated the
Colombian team with 206-199. However second seed
Great Britain was too strong in the quarter-final, beating Japan with 201-196. ==References==