Jodie Grinham (born 26 July 1993)[1] is a British archer who represents Great Britain in the Summer Paralympics. She won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro and at the 2024 Summer Paralympics she won team gold and individual bronze, while seven months pregnant with her second child.
 Jodie Grinham with her 2016 Paralympic silver medal | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 26 July 1993 (age 31) Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | BPP Law School | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Archery | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Compound archery | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal life
editGrinham was born with a short left arm, no fingers and only 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 was a student at BPP Law School in Waterloo, London.[2]
Career
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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
editGrinham 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]
2024 Summer Paralympics
editGrinham competed in the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris in the women's Individual Compound event and the Mixed Team Compound. She achieved a personal best in the individual compound open ranking round, shooting a score of 693 and winning the bronze medal.[7][8] She also won gold in the mixed team compound alongside Nathan MacQueen.[9]
Grinham was also the first-ever Paralympic athlete known to compete while pregnant, competing at seven-months pregnant.[10][7][8]
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.
- ^ a b Aldred, Tanya (31 August 2024). "Jodie Grinham shoots into history with Paralympic archery bronze while pregnant". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ a b Patterson, Hunter. "Jodie Grinham, 7 months pregnant, wins bronze in archery at Paralympics". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "Paralympics Archery: Pregnant Jodie Grinham and Nathan MacQueen win gold for GB". BBC Sport. 2 September 2024. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- ^ "Paris 2024: Para archer Jodie Grinham goes for gold at 28 weeks pregnant". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
External links
edit- Profile on World Archery
- "Jodie Grinham v Somayeh Abbaspour – compound women's quarterfinal - Rio 2016 Paralympics". World Archery. 13 January 2019. video of Grinham's quarter-final Women's individual compound open match with Somayeh Abbaspour of Iran