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National team | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Braunschweig, West Germany [1] | 12 April 1988||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 92 kg (203 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Archery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rank | 194 at World Archery Rankings (March 2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Recurve | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 30 July 2016 |
Florian Floto (born 12 April 1988) is a German male recurve archer from Braunschweig and part of the German national team. [2] [3]
He has competed internationally since the 2008 European Indoor Championships in Turin. There, he finished in 6th place individually and won the silver medal with the German team. [1] In 2010, Floto won Gold with the German team at the European Championships in Rovereto, in the individual competition he finished in fourth place. [2]
He won the gold medal at the 2016 World Indoor Archery Championships in the men's team event [4] and represented Germany at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro where he finished in 9th place. [5] [6] In Rio, Floto lost 4–6 in the round of 16 against eventual gold medalist Ku Bon-chan. [7]
Floto represents the Braunschweig-based Schützenverein Querum in domestic competitions, and has won several German championship titles with the club, both in individual and team events. He is an electrician by profession. [2]
Naomi Anne Folkard is a British archer who has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games five times between 2004 and 2020. She has also represented Great Britain at the World Archery Championships and the Archery World Cup, and England at the Commonwealth Games.
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Crispin Natanie Duenas is a Filipino-Canadian recurve archer who represented Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
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Sjef van den Berg is a retired Dutch competitive archer. He has won a total of two medals at the 2015 European Games, and eventually finished fourth in the men's individual archery at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Van der Berg currently trains at HBV Ontspanning in Sint-Oedenrode, under the tutelage of his coach Ron van der Hoff, a former Olympian at the Athens 2004 edition.
Patrick Huston is a British two-time Olympian archer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He captured three world championship titles under the youth level, and eventually competed as a member of the two person archery squad of Team GB at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in Rio, losing the first round match to the eventual champion Ku Bon-chan of South Korea. In the Tokyo 2020 Olympics his best result was a men's team 5th. Huston currently lives near Lilleshall National Sporting Centre and trained full-time under senior national coach Richard Priestman for Archery UK, while remaining a loyal founding member of East Belfast Archery Club. World ranking 14 at 16 January 2023
Mete Gazoz is a Turkish recurve archer. He won the gold medal in the men's individual event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. He also represented Turkey at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the 2023 World Archery Championships held in Berlin, Mete Gazoz emerged victorious, claiming the prestigious Individual title. In an intense final, he triumphed over the skilled Canadian archer Eric Peters, securing his place as the first Turkish archer to achieve the esteemed recurve gold medal in a World Championship.
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Veronika Serhiyivna Marchenko is a Ukrainian competitive archer. She has collected medals in major international competitions, spanning the World Indoor Championships, the European Games, and the European Championships.
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