Danielle Brown

Medal record
Archery
Competitor for  United Kingdom
Paralympic Games
Gold	2008 Beijing	Women's individual compound
Competitor for  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold	2010 Delhi	Women's compound team

Danielle Brown (born April 10, 1988^[1] in Lothersdale, North Yorkshire^[2]) is a British (English) competitive archer.

Her first international competitive event was at the European Archery Championships (for athletes with disabilities) in Nymburk in 2006. She reached the semi-finals of the Compound Bow Open Class event, and was defeated (100 to 105) by Gulbin Su of Turkey. She lost the bronze medal match to fellow British competitor Melanie Clarke (101 to 109).^[3]

She then took part in the IPC World Archery Championships in Cheongju in 2007. Competing in the Compound Bow Open Class event, she won gold with a score of 114 points (defeating Gulbin Su 116-107 in the semi-final, and Wang Li of China 114-108 in the final). She was also part of the British women's team which won gold in the team event in the Compound Bow Open Class, defeating Japan 221-199 in the final.^[3][4]

In 2008, Brown won silver (beaten by Gulbin Su in the final) in the Invitation Disabled Archery Event in Stoke Mandeville, then competed at the Paralympic Games in Beijing, where she won gold in the Women's individual compound, defeating Wang in the quarter-finals, Clarke in the semis, and Chieko Kamiya of Japan in the final (112-98). In 2009, she won an individual silver and a team gold at the IPC World Archery Championships, followed in 2010 by three successive individual gold medals: at the Arizona Cup, at the Stoke Mandeville World Invitational Disabled Archery Competition, and at the European Para-archery Championships.^[5]

She represented England in archery at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, having qualified "after a two-day selection shoot in Coventry in June where she finished second behind world number one Nicky Hunt".^[2] She was "the first Paralympian to represent England in an able-bodied event at the Games",^[6][7][8] though cyclist Sarah Storey (who won two gold medals in cycling at the 2008 Paralympics) also competed against able-bodied athletes a few days later.^[9][10] She won a gold medal in the Women's Team Compound event, beating Canada 232-229 alongside team-mates Nicky Hunt and Nichola Simpson.^[11]

Brown suffers from reflex sympathetic dystrophy in the feet, and competes sitting down or "leaning on a stool". She was, at the time of the 2008 Paralympics, a law student at Leicester University, and subsequently achieved a first.^{[2][12][13][14]}

References

1. ^ "Danielle Brown", International Paralympic Committee - Archery
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Ones to watch in Delhi: Danielle Brown", BBC, October 4, 2010
3. ^ ^{a b} Athlete results: Melanie Brown, International Paralympic Committee - Archery
4. ^ "6th IPC World Archery Championships", International Paralympic Committee - Archery
5. ^ Athlete results: Danielle Brown, International Paralympic Committee - Archery
6. ^ "Archery is back at the Commonwealth Games", International Archery Federation, August 26, 2010
7. ^ "Danielle Brown wins historic Commonwealth Games place", BBC, June 24, 2010
8. ^ "Paralympian Danielle Brown makes squad for Commonwealth Games", The Guardian, June 24, 2010
9. ^ "InterviewSarah Storey: From Paralympic swimmer to Commonwealth cyclist", The Guardian, October 1, 2010
10. ^ "The Paralympian taking on able-bodied athletes", The Independent, October 2, 2010
11. ^ "Commonwealth Games 2010: England archers win gold", BBC, October 7, 2010
12. ^ "DANIELLE BROWN - ARCHERY", English Federation of Disability Sport
13. ^ "Danielle Brown wins historic Commonwealth Games place", BBC, June 24, 2010
14. ^ "Paralympian Danielle Brown makes squad for Commonwealth Games", The Guardian, June 24, 2010

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