Taylor Worth
Taylor Worth 
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| birthday | January 8, 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Busselton , Western Australia | ||||||||||||||||||
| size | 174 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Archery | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||
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Taylor Worth (born January 8, 1991 in Busselton , Western Australia ) is an Australian archer .
Career
Taylor Worth starts for the Bowmen of Melville Archery Club in Perth . He started archery at the age of ten years and made his international debut in 2008.
In 2008 Worth won gold with Ryan Tyack at the Junior World Championships in Antalya . At the Commonwealth Games 2010 in Delhi, India, Worth won under his coach Simon Fairweather , the only Australian Olympic champion in archery, in the team competition together with Mat Masonwells and Matthew Gray also the gold medal.
Worth first competed in the Olympic Games at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London at the age of 21 . There he finished 23rd in the placement round in the individual competition , defeated Brady Ellison among others in the subsequent group stage and made it to the round of 16, where he lost 5: 6 to the later bronze medalist Dai Xiaoxiang and was eliminated.
Four years later, Worth started again at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro . In the individual competition, he was able to win the first three rounds this time and made it to the quarter-finals, where he again lost just 5: 6 to the later gold medalist Ku Bon-chan and thus finished fifth in the final result. In the team competition Worth came together with Alec Potts 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.
Taylor Worth currently resides in Yangebup , Western Australia .
Web links
- Taylor Worth in the World Archery Federation database
- Taylor Worth in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Taylor Worth in the olympic.org database
- Taylor Worth on the Australian Olympic Committee website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Steady nerves and steely focus the key for Queensland Olympic archery hopefuls , on couriermail.com.au, March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
- ↑ Photo , on zimbio.com. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
- ↑ Results archery, individual men, Olympic Games 2012 , on olympic.org. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
- ↑ Luke Pentony: Rio Olympics: Taylor Worth heading to second Games in spite of a lack of junior success , on abc.net.au, 2016. June 6, Accessed on 22 April 2017th
- ↑ Results archery, individual men, Olympic Games 2016 , on olympic.org. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
- ↑ Matt Bartolo: Worth's historic campaign ends in dramatic shootoff , on corporate.olympics.com.au, August 13, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
- ^ Taylor Worth in the World Archery Federation database . Retrieved April 22, 2017.
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| SURNAME | Worth, Taylor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian archer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Busselton , Western Australia , Australia |