Lucas Daniel

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Lucas Daniel
Personal information
Full nameLucas Daniel
Born (1995-01-01) 1 January 1995 (age 29)
Riom, France
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
CountryFlag of France.svg  France
Sport Archery
Event Recurve
Updated on 22 February 2017.

Lucas Daniel (born 1 January 1995) is a French competitive archer. [1] He attained a fourth-place finish in the men's team recurve at the 2015 European Games, and eventually competed as a member of the French archery squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [2]

Daniel was selected to compete for the French squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, shooting in both individual and team recurve tournaments. [3] First, Daniel amassed 666 points out of a maximum 720 to obtain a twenty-first seed heading to the knockout stage, along with his team's score of 2,003 collected from the classification round. [4] Sitting at fifth in the men's team recurve, Daniel and his compatriots Pierre Plihon and Jean-Charles Valladont confidently beat the Malaysians in the opening round with a 2–6, before they faced a quarterfinal match against Australia, which led to the trio's untimely demise from the competition through a tough 3–5 defeat. [5] [6] In the men's individual recurve, Daniel succumbed to the reigning European Games champion Miguel Alvariño of Spain, who scored straight-set victories in the opening round. [7] [8]

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References

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  7. "Archery: Men's Individual Round of 32". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  8. "Lucas Daniel s'arrête en 32e de finale" [Lucas Daniel eliminated in the round of 64] (in French). L'Equipe. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2017.