Name: Andre Shelby
Sport: Archery
Discipline(s): Compound Archery
Event(s): Individual Compound
Classification: W2
DOB: 12/8/1966
Hometown: Jeffersonville, Ind.
High School: Jeffersonville High School (Jeffersonville, Ind.)
Paralympic Experience
  • Two-time Paralympian (2016, 2020); One-time Paralympic Medalist (1 gold)
  • Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, 9th (individual compound open)
  • Paralympic Games Rio 2016, gold (individual compound open)
World Championship Experience
  • Most recent: 2019 – 5th (team), 9th (individual)
  • Years of participation: 2015, 2017, 2019
  • Medals: 3 (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Gold – 2015 (team)
  • Silver – 2017 (individual)
  • Bronze – 2017 (team)
Personal: United States Navy (Ret.) Veteran...First picked up the sport in 2010 and won his first major medal five years later at the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games...First black Paralympic archery champion...He is a SCI Peer Mentor...Hobbies include fishing, table tennis, and billiards
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