Full name Brady Lee Ellison Weight 86 kg Height 1.80 m | Role Olympic athlete Name Brady Ellison | |
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Born October 27, 1988 (age 35) ( 1988-10-27 ) Glendale, Arizona, U.S. Olympic medals Archery at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's team Similar People Jake Kaminski, Jacob Wukie, Im Dong‑hyun, Michele Frangilli, Oh Jin‑Hyek Profiles | ||
The Ideal Archer with Brady Ellison [USA]
Brady 'The Prospector' Ellison (born October 27, 1988) is an American archer who competes in recurve archery. He is currently a Resident Athlete at the United States Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California. He holds the record for the longest continuous period as the world number-one-ranked men's recurve archer, from August 2011 to April 2013. He earned his nickname "The Prospector" during the 2015 world championships due to his proclivity for 'finding gold'.
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- The Ideal Archer with Brady Ellison USA
- fanstream brady ellison v oh jin hyek recurve men s gold final bangkok 2015
- Personal life
- Olympics
- Pop culture
- References
fanstream brady ellison v oh jin hyek recurve men s gold final bangkok 2015
Personal life
As a child Ellison suffered from the Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease and wore leg braces for a year. He is an avid hunter, and killed a bear aged 11. On April 22, 2016, he married Slovenian archer Toja Cerne.
Olympics
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ellison finished his ranking round with a total of 664 points, which gave him the 15th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced John Burnes in the first round. Ellison won the match 111–89 and advanced to the second round. Here he was unable to beat another Canadian Jay Lyon, who was too strong with 113–107. Together with Butch Johnson and Vic Wunderle he also took part in the team event. With his 664 score from the ranking round combined with the 653 of Johnson and the 652 of Wunderle the Americans were in 10th position after the ranking round. In the first round they lost to Chinese Taipei, 222–218.
Ellison secured his spot for the 2012 Olympics at the USA Archery's Olympic Trials in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is sponsored by Solve Media, Hoyt Archery, Easton Arrows, and Axcel Sight and Scopes, among others. He won a silver team medal together with his Jake Kaminski and Jacob Wukie.
At the 2016 Rio Games Ellison won an individual bronze and team silver medals.
Pop culture
Ellison appeared in an episode of the American-based TV show Mythbusters, where he helped to test the myth of the Ancient Greek 'arrow machine gun' (a mythical device that could fire arrows in a way similar to modern machine guns). With Ellison's help, the myth was deemed Plausible.