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Born | [1] Hancheng, Shaanxi, China | 1 January 1992 ||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | China | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Para-archery | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Wu Yang (born 1 January 1992) is a Chinese para-archer. She represented China at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
Yang competed at the 2023 World Para Archery Championships and won a bronze medal in the individual recurve open. [2]
Yang represented China at the 2024 Summer Paralympics and won a silver medal in the individual recurve open. [1]
Mauro Nespoli is an Italian archer. He won individual silver at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics and was a member of the Italian teams that won gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics and silver at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics consists of nine events, five for men and four for women. The competitions were held at the Olympic Green Archery Field from September 9 to September 15, 2008.
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Zahra Nemati is an Iranian Paralympic and Olympic archer. She originally competed in taekwondo before she was paralyzed in a car accident. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics she won two medals, an individual gold and team bronze. She has qualified to compete at both the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics. She was the flag bearer at the 2016 Olympics and the postponed 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo where she shared the honour with thrower Nourmohammad Arekhi.
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Amanda Jane "AJ" Jennings is an Australian paracanoeist and para archer. She won two gold medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and a silver medal in the Women's 200m KL3 at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
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.
Paul James Browne is an English competitive archer. Browne has competed in two Summer Paralympic Games.
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Thailand competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics from 24 August to 5 September 2021. This was the country's tenth appearance at the Paralympic Games.
Wu Chunyan is a Chinese Paralympic archer. She represented China at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and she won two medals: the gold medal in the mixed team recurve open event and the silver medal in the women's individual recurve open event.
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Hazel Chaisty is a British Paralympic archer.
Taymon Kenton-Smith is an Australian Paralympic Recurve Archer. He represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Emma Rose Ravish is an American Paralympic archer from Alva, Florida. She is the most successful recurve women open archer in U.S. history. She holds the 70m Para Recurve Open Female national record.
Yağmur Şengül is a Turkish Paralympian archer competing in the Women's recurve bow W2 event.
Harvinder Singh is an Indian paralympic archer. He is a double Paralympic medalist having won the gold at 2024 Paris and the bronze at 2020 Tokyo in the men's singles recurve archery event. His medals were the first Paralympic gold and bronze archery medals for India.
Zhao Lixue is a Chinese Paralympic archer.
Vivek Chikara, also known as Chikara Vivek, is an Indian paralympic archer. He made his debut in 2020 Summer Paralympics, where he finished 10th in male individual recurve archery category. He also won gold medal in Asian Para Championship 2019 with an impressive 7–1 win over China's Sijun Wang and in 2023, He won silver medal at Asian Para Archery Championship in Thailand with his teammate Harvinder Singh in Recurve open Team Event.
Yavuz Papağan is a Turkish para-archer. He is a World and European champion, competing in the men's recurve bow event of disability class W2.