Butch Johnson
Butch Johnson 
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| birthday | August 30, 1955 | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Worcester , Massachusetts , United States | |||||||||||||||
| size | 191 cm | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 98 kg | |||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Archery | |||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||||||||
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Richard Andrew "Butch" Johnson (born August 30, 1955 in Worcester , Massachusetts ) is a retired American archer and Olympic champion.
Career
Butch Johnson took part in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona at the age of 36 for the first time, where he finished 18th in the individual competition and sixth in the team competition with Rick McKinney and Jay Barrs . Four years later, Johnson started again at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and won the gold medal in the team competition with Justin Huish and Rod White . In the individual competition, he finished eleventh.
At the 1999 World Championships in Riom , France , Johnson won the bronze medal in the team competition together with Jay Barrs , Vic Wunderle and Jason McKittrick . The following year Johnson won at the Olympic Summer Games 2000 in Sydney in the team competition together with Rod White and Vic Wunderle also at the Olympics bronze. In the individual competition he was nineteenth. In the team competition of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , Johnsson just missed another medal behind South Korea , the Chinese Taipei and the Ukraine in fourth place. In the individual, he achieved his overall worst individual placement with 52nd place. In 2008, at the age of 52, Johnsson took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing for the last time and reached only ninth place with the team and 28th place in the individual competition.
Butch Johnson now lives in Woodstock , Connecticut . His hobbies are motorcycling, snowboarding and quad riding, as well as hunting.
Web links
- Butch Johnson in the World Archery Federation database
- Butch Johnson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Butch Johnson on teamusa.org
- Butch Johnson's Guide to Watching Archery on smithsonianmag.com
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| SURNAME | Johnson, Butch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johnson, Richard Andrew (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American archer and Olympic champion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Worcester , Massachusetts , United States |