Taylor Worth

Taylor Worth

Personal information
Nationality	Australia
Born	(1991-01-08) 8 January 1991 Busselton, Western Australia
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	60 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Archery
Event(s)	Men's recurve
Medal record Archery Representing Australia Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi Men's Team World Youth Archery Championships 2008 Turkey under-18 men's team recurve

Taylor Worth (8 January 1991, in Busselton, Western Australia) is an Australian archer competing in recurve events. The Perth-based competitor won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the men's team event. He also won a gold medal at the United States Open and at the 2008 World Youth Archery Championships in the under-18 men's team recurve event. He represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's Individual competition.

Personal

He was disappointed when the Australian Institute of Sport cut archery from their elite sport development programs. Aside from archery, Taylor has stated that he enjoys a wide range of other outdoor activities such as paint ball and rock climbing.

Archery

Worth has won several gold medals, including the team men's under-18 recurve event at the 2008 World Youth Archery Championships in Antalya, Turkey. and the United States Open ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth games.

Worth represented Australia at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. He competed in the men's recurve archery team event where he took home a gold medal with a team score of 219, defeating Malaysia who were ranked third in the world at the time and had an event score of 212. He also competed in the individual event on the final day of the competition. At nineteen, he was the youngest Australian archer on the team. At the Games, he was coached by Simon Fairweather.

In September 2011, he was named to the Australian archery shadow Olympic team. He attended a national team training camp in Canberra in September 2011. He attended a national team training camp in Canberra in March 2012. In January 2012, he represented Australia at the 2012 Oceania Olympic qualifying event in New Zealand. At the 2012 National Target Archery Championships, he finished third as a member of AWA. In March at the 2012 Olympic Games Nomination Shoot Results, he finished third with a score of 2611. In May 2012, he participated in a training camp in Buderim. He competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in which he beat world number one Brady Ellison in the round of 16 before losing in the round of 8.

In 2014 Taylor competed in his first World Indoor Championship in Nîmes. He placed 4th, losing to team mate Ryan Tyack in the semi finals and American rival Brady Ellison in the bronze medal match. However the dominating performance he showed leading up to the semi finals earned him the nickname, 'The Ten Train'. At the first world cup of the year Taylor made it to his second medal match for the year but lost in a nail-biting five set match against Dutchman Rick Van Der Ven.