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| Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 September 1962 [1] North Bay, Ontario, Canada [2] | ||||||||||||||
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| Event | Compound | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Phil Henderson | ||||||||||||||
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Karen Van Nest (born 29 September 1962) is a Canadian Paralympic archer and shooter. She is a Parapan American Games medalist and has competed in six Paralympic Games.
Van Nest is originally from North Bay, Ontario. [3] At age 23, she lost her left leg in a motorcycle accident. [3]
Van Nest began shooting in 1996. [4] She qualified for Canada’s Paralympic team in 1998, placing fourth at the 2000 Paralympics. She finished fifth at the 2004 Paralympics and tenth at the 2008 Paralympics. [5] In 2006, she won a bronze medal at the world championships in rowing. [4]
Van Nest began para archery in 2008, at the age of 46. [6] She switched from shooting to archery after she experienced problems with her right shoulder, [6] [7] and made her Paralympic archery debut at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. At the 2014 Pan Am Championships she won bronze in the women's compound open and silver in mixed team. [4] [8] She won silver at the 2015 Parapan American Games in women’s compound open, losing by eight points to Jane Karla Gögel of Brazil. [9] At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, Van Nest came fourth in the women's compound open. [10] Van Nest won gold in the women’s compound open at the 2017 Para Pan American Championships [11] and bronze in the same event at the Championships the following year. [12] She competed in archery at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. [13]
Danielle Brown MBE is a British competitive archer and award winning children's author. She has competed in the Paralympic Games, winning gold medals in Beijing and London, and has also won medals shooting in the able-bodied category, including at the Commonwealth Games.
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ARW2 is a Paralympic archery classification.
Archery at the 2016 Summer Paralympics was held between 10 and 17 September 2016 at the Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí in the Maracana zone of Rio de Janeiro, and consisted of nine events. Although featuring the same number of events as in the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, their make-up changed substantially, with three men's events, three women's events and three events for mixed gender teams. In each category, two events involved the compound bow - one for wheelchair athletes, the other open - with an open event for recurve bow, the bow used for all Olympic events.
Brazil competed in the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, as host country, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.
Jodie Grinham is a British archer who represents Great Britain in the Summer Paralympics. She won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro and at the 2024 Summer Paralympics she won team gold and individual bronze, while seven months pregnant with her second child.
Uwe Herter is a German Paralympic archer.
Luciano Reinaldo Rezende is a Brazilian Paralympic archer and Parapan American Games gold medalist.
Kevin Evans is a Canadian Paralympic archer.
Eric Christopher Bennett is an American paralympic archer who competes in recurve archery. He is a five-time Paralympian, having represented the United States at the 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 Paralympic Games. Additionally he is a two-time World Para Archery Champion and a four-time U.S. national champion.
Ieva Melle is a Latvian Paralympic archer.
The women's individual recurve archery event at the 2019 Pan American Games was held from 7 August to 11 August at the Villa María del Triunfo sports complex in Lima, Peru. One of eight archery events as part of the 2019 Pan American catalogue of sports, it was the eleventh time the women's individual recurve competition had been contested at the Games. Thirty-two archers from fourteen nations qualified for the event.
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Renee Danielle Foessel is a Canadian Paralympic athlete who specializes in throwing events in international level events.
Paige Pearce is an American compound archer. She won two medals at the 2019 World Archery Championships held in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands: the silver medal in the women's individual compound event and also the silver medal in the women's team compound event.
Phoebe Paterson Pine is a British paralympian and archer. She won gold in the Women's individual compound open at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. She defeated Jessica Stretton, and Tatiana Andrievskaia, to advance to the final. She compteted at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris.
Maria Andrea Virgilio is an Italian Paralympic archer. She won bronze in the Women's individual compound open at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.
Ben Thompson is an American para-archer since 2014. As a compound archery competitor, Thompson won bronze at the 2015 Parapan American Games. At the World Para Archery Championships, Thompson was first in 2017 and 2019 in the men's open compound. During the men's open compound team events with the United States, Thompson was first in 2015 and third in 2017. He also competed at the 2022 World Para Archery Championships and 2022 World Games.
The United States competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France, from August 28 to September 8, 2024.
Sheetal Devi is an Indian para-archer. She won a bronze medal in the mixed team compound event at the 2024 Paralympics, becoming the youngest Indian Paralympian medalist. She won two gold medals and one silver at the 2022 Asian Para Games. Devi won a silver medal at the World Para Archery Championship, as well as a gold and a silver at the Asian Para Archery Championships. She is a recipient of the Arjuna Award and was ranked first in the para world archery rankings in 2023.
