Jodie Grinham
 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 | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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 gained a bronze medal while seven-months pregnant.
Personal life
Grinham 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
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
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]
2024 Summer Paralympics
Grinham 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]
Grinham was also the first-ever Paralympic athlete known to be pregnant, competing at seven-months pregnant.[9][7][8]
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Paris 2024: Para archer Jodie Grinham goes for gold at 28 weeks pregnant". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
External links
- 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