Brady Ellison

Brady Ellison

Ellison at International Archery Federation Word Cup 2010 in Poreč, Croatia
Personal information
Full name	Brady Lee Ellison
Born	October 27, 1988 (age 27) Glendale, Arizona, U.S.
Medal record Men's recurve archery Representing the  United States Olympic Games 2012 London Team World Championships 2013 Belek Team 2013 Belek Mixed team 2011 Torino Individual Pan American Games 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team 2011 Guadalajara Individual 2011 Guadalajara Team 2015 Toronto Individual 2015 Toronto Team World Cup 2010 Edinburgh Individual 2011 Istanbul Individual 2012 Tokyo Mixed Team 2014 Lausanne Individual 2013 Paris Individual World Indoor Championships 2009 Rzeszów Team 2012 Las Vegas Team 2012 Las Vegas Individual 2014 Nimes Individual World Field Championships 2014 Zagreb Individual 2014 Zagreb Team World Games 2013 Cali Individual

Brady Ellison (born October 27, 1988 in Glendale, Arizona) is an athlete from the United States, 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.

On April 22, 2016, he married Slovenian archer Toja Cerne.

2008 Summer 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.^[1]

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.^[2][3]

2012 Summer Olympics

Brady secured his spot at the USA Archery's Olympic Trials in Colorado Springs, Colorado.^[4] He is sponsored by Solve Media,^[5] Hoyt Archery, Easton Arrows, and Axcel Sight and Scopes, among others.^[6]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed for his country in the Men's team event and won a Silver Olympic medal along with his teammates Jake Kaminski and Jacob Wukie. He beat myd

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.

Individual performance timeline

Tournament	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	SR
World Archery tournaments
Olympic Games		2R				2R			0/2
World Championships	3R		3R		3rd		2R		0/3
World Cup
Stage 1	3R		2R	W	W	W	3R	QF	3/7
Stage 2	3R		4th	3rd	W	3R	QF	QF	1/7
Stage 3	1R	2nd	3R	3R	W	3R	QF	3R	1/8
Stage 4		1R		3R	3R		QF	QF	0/5
World Cup Final	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	W	W	2nd	3rd	W	3/5
End of year world ranking	19	16	14	2	1	1	8	6

References

1. "Athlete biography: Brady Ellison". Beijing2008.cn. The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008.
2. "Brady Ellison - Olympics Athletes - 2008 Summer Olympics". ESPN. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
3. "Shooting Staff". Hoyt Recurve. Retrieved July 27, 2012.
4. Robinson, Tom. "Olympic Weekend Wrap-Up: June 4, 2012". teamUSA.org. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
5. Heitner, Darren. "American Olympians Competing For Gold In Archery And Weightlifting Find Timely Financial Support". Forbes. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
6. "A WORD FOR BRADY'S SPONSORS...THANKS". BradyEllison.com. Retrieved July 18, 2012.