Mélanie Gaubil
Mélanie Gaubil (born 4 October 1997) is a French archer. Gaubil competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, placing fifth in the 72-arrow ranking round and setting a personal record of 663 points despite suffering from an inflamed shoulder.[1] She advanced to the final where she faced China's Li Jiaman, narrowly losing in a one-arrow shoot-off and receiving the silver medal as runner-up.[2]
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| Born | 4 October 1997 (age 22) | |||||||||||||
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| Sport | Archery | |||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Recurve | |||||||||||||
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Five years later she reached her first senior international final at the first stage of the 2019 Archery World Cup, where she lost in straight sets to South Korea's Kang Chae-young.[3]
She is coached by Nicholas Rifaut and is a member of Les archers leguevinois, an archery club.[4]
References
- Diesnis, Jérôme (26 August 2014). "Mélanie Gaubil a vaincu ses démons" [Mélanie Gaubil has defeated her demons]. La Dépêche du Midi (in French). Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- Johnston, Patrick (25 August 2014). Palmer, Justin (ed.). "Xu takes 400 meters hurdles in photo finish, Bach praises China". Reuters. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- Wells, Chris (28 April 2019). "Kang Chae Young completes Medellin triple gold with individual title". World Archery Federation. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 September 2014. Retrieved 6 September 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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