Jodie Grinham (born 26 July 1993)[1] is a British archer who represented Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
 Jodie Grinham with her 2016 Paralympic silver medal | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 July 1993 (age 30) Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Education | BPP Law School | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Archery | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Compound archery | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Personal life edit
Grinham was born with a short left arm and no fingers and half a thumb on her left hand. She was the first person with such a disability to attempt archery, so to avoid breaking the rule that the bow must not be attached to the archer, Grinham and her father Symon created a novel way of helping her grip her bow.[2]
She is a student at BPP Law School in Waterloo, London.[2]
Career edit
Grinham first started archery in 2008.[3] She was first selected for the Great Britain archery team in 2014,[2] and finished seventh at the World Para-archery Championships in Germany in 2015.[3]
2016 Summer Paralympics edit
Grinham competed in the women's individual compound open and the team compound open events at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
In the individual event, Grinham reached the quarter-finals, losing to Somayeh Abbaspour of Iran.[4]
In the team event, Grinham partnered John Stubbs. The pair finished the preliminary ranking round seeded 5th of 10 teams with a score of 1,324. After defeating Italy in the quarterfinals and South Korea in semi-finals, Grinham and Stubbs faced China in the gold medal match, but were bested by the Chinese duo of Zhou Jiamin and Ai Xinliang 151-143. This was however enough to earn Grinham a silver medal.[5][6]
References edit
- ^ "Jodie Grinham". ParalympicsGB. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
- ^ a b c Watts, Matt (9 September 2016). "ParalympicsGB archer Jodie Grinham: 'Club said I'd never hold bow … so I wanted it even more'". Evening Standard. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ a b Stanley, John (9 September 2016). "She's Limitless! Paralympian Jodie Grinham is Going for Gold at Rio 2016". Archery 360. Archery Trade Association. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "Rio 2016 Schedule & Results". paralympic.org. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
- ^ "Paralympics 2016: Aled Sion Davies wins F42 shot and Jodie Grinham takes archery silver". BBC Sport. BBC. 12 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "Mixed Team Compound Open Final Rounds - Brackets" (PDF). Official Website of the Paralympic Movement. International Paralympic Committee. 12 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
External links edit
- Profile on World Archery
- "Jodie Grinham v Somayeh Abbaspour – compound women's quarterfinal - Rio 2016 Paralympics". World Archery. video of Grinham's quarter-final Women's individual compound open match with Somayeh Abbaspour of Iran