Jodie Grinham
 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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| Updated on 13 September 2016. | |||||||||||||||
Jodie Grinham (born 26 July 1993)[1] is a British archer who represented Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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