Name: Brady Ellison

Position: Recurve

Sport: Archery

Discipline(s): Archery

Event(s): Individual, Team, Mixed Team

Height: 6-0

DOB: 10/27/1988

Birthplace: Glendale

Hometown: Globe, Ariz.

High School: GED while living at Chula Vista OTC

Coach(es): Kisik Lee

Olympic Experience

• Four-time Olympian (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020); three-time Olympic medalist (2 silvers, 1 bronze)
• Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, 7th (team), 7th (individual)
• Olympic Games Rio 2016, silver (team), bronze (individual)
• Olympic Games London 2012, silver (team)
• Olympic Games Beijing 2008

World Championship Experience

• Most recent: 2019 – gold (individual)
• Years of participation: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
• Medals: 13 (7 golds, 2 silvers, 4 bronzes)
• Gold – 2019 (individual); 2016 (individual, team); 2014 (individual, team); 2013 (team); 2012
• Silver – 2018 (team); 2013 (team)
• Bronze – 2018 (individual); 2016 (individual); 2012 (individual); 2011 (individual)
• Bronze – 2018 (individual); 2016 (individual); 2012 (individual); 2011 (individual)

Personal: After receiving his first compound bow at the age of 7, Ellison killed a bear while bow hunting at age 11...The bear now serves as a rug in his father’s home...Had Perthes disease as a child, which required him to wear leg braces for more than a year...Loves to cook, and his specialty dish is biscuits and gravy...An avid outdoorsman who enjoys golf, fishing, spearfishing – basically anything outdoors...Married Slovenian archer Toja Ellison in April 2016 and had son Ty Ellison in November 2020

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