Brady Ellison

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Brady Ellison
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Ellison at International Archery Federation Word Cup 2010 in Poreč, Croatia
Personal information
Full name Brady Lee Ellison
Born October 27, 1988 (1988-10-27) (age 36)
Glendale, Arizona, U.S.
Medal record
Men's recurve archery
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Team
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Belek Team
Silver medal – second place 2013 Belek Mixed team
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Torino Individual
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team
Gold medal – first place 2011 Guadalajara Individual
Gold medal – first place 2011 Guadalajara Team
Silver medal – second place 2015 Toronto Individual
Silver medal – second place 2015 Toronto Team
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2010 Edinburgh Individual
Gold medal – first place 2011 Istanbul Individual
Gold medal – first place 2012 Tokyo Mixed Team
Gold medal – first place 2014 Lausanne Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Paris Individual
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Rzeszów Team
Gold medal – first place 2012 Las Vegas Team
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Las Vegas Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Nimes Individual
World Field Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Zagreb Individual
Gold medal – first place 2014 Zagreb Team
World Games
Silver medal – second place 2013 Cali Individual

Brady Ellison (born October 27, 1988 in Glendale, Arizona) is an athlete from the United States, who competes in recurve archery. He is currently a Resident Athlete at the United States Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California. He holds the record for the longest continuous period as the world number-one-ranked men's recurve archer, from August 2011 to April 2013.

On April 22, 2016, he married Slovenian archer Toja Cerne.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ellison finished his ranking round with a total of 664 points, which gave him the 15th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced John Burnes in the first round. Ellison won the match 111–89 and advanced to the second round. Here he was unable to beat another Canadian Jay Lyon, who was too strong with 113–107.[1]

Together with Butch Johnson and Vic Wunderle he also took part in the team event. With his 664 score from the ranking round combined with the 653 of Johnson and the 652 of Wunderle the Americans were in 10th position after the ranking round. In the first round they lost to Chinese Taipei, 222–218.[2][3]

2012 Summer Olympics

Brady secured his spot at the USA Archery's Olympic Trials in Colorado Springs, Colorado.[4] He is sponsored by Solve Media,[5] Hoyt Archery, Easton Arrows, and Axcel Sight and Scopes, among others.[6]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed for his country in the Men's team event and won a Silver Olympic medal along with his teammates Jake Kaminski and Jacob Wukie. He beat myd

Pop culture

Ellison appeared in an episode of the American-based TV show Mythbusters, where he helped to test the myth of the Ancient Greek 'arrow machine gun' (a mythical device that could fire arrows in a way similar to modern machine guns). With Ellison's help, the myth was deemed Plausible.

Individual performance timeline

Tournament 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 SR
World Archery tournaments
Olympic Games 2R 2R 0/2
World Championships 3R 3R 3rd 2R 0/3
World Cup
Stage 1 3R 2R W W W 3R QF 3/7
Stage 2 3R 4th 3rd W 3R QF QF 1/7
Stage 3 1R 2nd 3R 3R W 3R QF 3R 1/8
Stage 4 1R 3R 3R QF QF 0/5
World Cup Final DNQ DNQ DNQ W W 2nd 3rd W 3/5
End of year world ranking 19 16 14 2 1 1 8 6

References

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