Jason Lyon

Jason ("Jay") Lyon (born May 24, 1986 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is an archer from Canada.

Lyon is a member of the Canadian National archery team who has competed in the 2004 World Junior Archery Championships, 2005 World Senior Archery Championships, the 2007 World Senior Archery Championships, the 2007 Pan-American Games and many other events.

At the 2007 World Championships Lyon was a member of the Team Canada (along with Crispin Duenas and Hugh MacDonald) who won Canada 3 Olympic spots by getting 8th in the Team Round. Canada has not had a full archery team the Olympics since 1996 in Atlanta. Lyon was also a member of the Silver Medallist Team at the 2007 Pan-American Games in Rio De Janeiro where they set the Pan-American Games Record with a 224. Jason also finished 4th at the Pan-American Games, losing the Bronze to Vic Wunderle (USA) 109-114. On his way to the bronze match Jason set and broke the Pan-American Games 12-arrow match-play record going 114-105 against Pablo Daniel Basgall (ARG), 115-107 against Jorge Pablo Chapoy (MEX) and a 116-112 against Eduardo Luis Vélez (MEX). He then shot 109-114 agsint Juan Carlos Stevens (CUB) and 109-114 against Vic Wunderle (USA) to finish 4th.

He held the Canadian Record 1440 with 1325 until team mate Crispin Duenas broke it at the Pan-American Games with a 1328. Lyon holds the 720 Olympic Round Record of 662 and tied Duenas's National 12-Arrow Match record of 116 at the Pan-American Games.

Jason won the Canadian Olympic Trials and represented Canada at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. He finished his ranking round with a total of 646 points, which gave him the 47th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Chinese home favourite Xue Haifeng in the first round. Lyon won the game with 111-106 and met Brady Ellison in the second round, which he won by 113-107. In the third round Lyon was unable to win against Bair Badënov from Russia (115-110), who would eventually win the bronze meda. [http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/3/211843.shtml Athlete biography: Jay Lyon] , beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 19 2008] Together with John-David Burnes and Crispin Duenas he also took part in the team event. With his 646 score from the ranking round combined with the 644 of Burnes and the 664 of Duenas the Canadians were in 11th position after the ranking round. In the first round they were beaten by the Italian team 219-217. They would go on to reach the final and win the silver medal.

Jason currently set 3 out of a possible 5 records in his last FITA Star event. He broke the 20 year old 90m record with a 317, the 70m record with a 341 and the overall 1440 record with a 1345. This beat the previous record by 13 points. The score Jason achieved is a milestone most recurve shooters will never reach.

Jason curretly resides in his home town of Winnipeg where he shoots regularly at his local archery range, [http://www.archerybymail.com/ Heights Archery] . He is not your typical olympic athlete as he commonly eats fast food (being the 22-year old man that he is.) Jason said in a recent [http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSSP6417720080805 article] : "I'm not much of an athlete, I eat a lot of McDonalds, I'm probably overweight for an athlete." Besides the humor about the fast food jason is not taking his competition at the olympics jokingly. He is as determined as any athlete that will ever step foot on olyimpic soil and Canada is behind him every step of the way.

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