Braden Gellenthien (born April 26, 1986 in Boston) is an athlete from the United States who competes in compound archery. He is a former world number one archer and has won individual gold medals at the FITA Archery World Cup, Indoor World Championships and Arizona Cup, and team gold medals at the World Archery Championships.[1]
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| Born | April 26, 1986 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Hudson, Massachusetts, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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He won the 2021 Athlete of the Year award by World Archery Americas in the compound men category.[2]
He competed at the 2022 World Games held in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.[3][4]
He is married to Danish archer Tanja Jensen.
References
edit- ^ ":: FITA / Web Site Management Screens ::". old.archery.org. Archived from the original on June 26, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
- ^ "World Archery Americas announces award winners for 2021". World Archery Americas. February 18, 2022. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
- ^ "USA Archery Announces Compound Lineup for 2022 World Games in Birmingham". USA Archery. April 14, 2022. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
- ^ "Archery Results Book" (PDF). 2022 World Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 15, 2022. Retrieved July 15, 2022.
External links
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Media related to Braden Gellenthien at Wikimedia Commons- Braden Gellenthien at World Archery
- Braden Gellenthien at the International World Games Association
- Braden Gellenthien at Team USA (archive)
- Braden Gellenthien at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games
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