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| Born | 4 October 1997 (age 26) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country |  France | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Archery | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Recurve | ||||||||||||||
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Mélanie Gaubil (born 4 October 1997) is a French archer who competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.
Career
Gaubil contested the 2013 French National Archery Championships in both the junior and senior categories, finishing as the runner-up in the former and sixth overall in the latter after being eliminated in the quarter-finals. She later achieved a bronze medal in the women's team event at the Mediterranean Games in Mersin, and by the end the year had set five new national records.[1]
Gaubil made her Olympic debut at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing. She placed fifth in the 72-arrow ranking round, setting a personal record of 663 points from 720 despite suffering from an inflamed shoulder,[2] before progressing through the elimination rounds to the final. She was defeated by China's Li Jiaman in a tie-breaking one-arrow shoot-off, receiving the silver medal as the runner-up.[3]
Gaubil reached her first senior international final at the opening stage of the 2019 Archery World Cup, where she lost in straight sets to South Korea's Kang Chae-young.[4]
She is coached by Nicholas Rifaut and is a member of Les archers leguevinois, an archery club.[5]
References
- ↑ "Mélanie Gaubil vice-championne de France de tir à l'arc". La Dépêche du Midi (in French). 14 September 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ↑ Diesnis, Jérôme (26 August 2014). "Mélanie Gaubil a vaincu ses démons" [Mélanie Gaubil has defeated her demons]. La Dépêche du Midi (in French). Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ↑ Johnston, Patrick (25 August 2014). Palmer, Justin (ed.). "Xu takes 400 meters hurdles in photo finish, Bach praises China". Reuters. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- ↑ Wells, Chris (28 April 2019). "Kang Chae Young completes Medellin triple gold with individual title". World Archery Federation. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ↑ "Athlete's biography - the Second Summer Youth Olympic Games, Nanjing 2014". Archived from the original on 6 September 2014. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
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