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Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||
Born | 26 July 1993 Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales | (age 30)||||||||||||||
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.
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]
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]
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]