Alec Potts

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Alec Potts Archery
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
birthday February 9, 1996
place of birth Clayton , Victoria
Career
discipline Archery
society Aim Archery Club
Trainer Michael Pless
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Medals
last change: April 23, 2017

Alec Potts (born February 9, 1996 in Clayton , Victoria ) is an Australian archer .

Career

Alec Potts was born in Clayton , Victoria and grew up in Orpington , now a part of London , where he learned fencing in addition to archery . In 2007 the family returned to Australia and moved to Melbourne . Alec Potts joined the Aim Archery Club in Cheltenham , Victoria there . In 2011 he made his international debut. His trainer is Michael Pless .

In 2015 Potts took part in the 2015 World Championships in Copenhagen, where he lost 7-1 to Sweden's Jonas Lennart Andersson in the individual competition after defeating the Brazilian Bernardo Oliveira in the second round and was eliminated. In the team competition he reached together with Taylor Worth and Ryan Tyack by losing in the quarterfinals, eighth place in 58 participating nations.

Alec Potts took part in the Olympic Games for the first time at the age of 20 as part of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro . In the team competition he came together with Taylor Worth and Ryan Tyack after victories over Malaysia and France to the semi-finals, where they lost 6-0 to the eventual Olympic champion South Korea. Then they defeated China 6-2 in the small final and won the bronze medal. This was the first team medal for Australia in archery at the Olympics. After he was 20th in the placement round in the individual competition, he lost directly in the first round with 4: 6 against the Brazilian Bernardo Oliveira and was eliminated early.

Alec Pott lives with his family in Mount Eliza , Victoria . He has a younger sister, Emily.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alec Potts in the olympic.org database. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Alec Potts in the database of the World Archery Federation . Retrieved April 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Carolyn Webb: Rio Olympics 2016: Archer Alec Potts' family elated with bronze medal . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , August 7, 2016. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
  4. ↑ Results of the 2015 World Championships in Copenhagen , on ianseo.net (PDF). Retrieved April 23, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b Alec Potts on the website of the Australian Olympic Committee . Retrieved April 23, 2017.
  6. ↑ Luke Pentony: Rio Olympics: Taylor Worth heading to second Games in spite of a lack of junior success , on abc.net.au, June 6, 2016. Accessed April 23, 2017th
  7. ↑ Matt Bartolo: Worth's historic campaign ends in dramatic shootoff , on corporate.olympics.com.au, August 13, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
  8. ↑ Results archery, individual men, Olympic Games 2016 , on olympic.org. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
  9. ↑ Simon McEvoy: Mt Eliza's Alec Potts is headed for Rio after being selected in Australia's Olympic archery team . In: Herald Sun , June 7, 2016. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Potts, Alec
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian archer
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Clayton , Victoria , Australia