Braden Gellenthien (born 26 April 1986 in

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), is an athlete from the United States who competes in

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archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...

. He is a former world number one archer and has won individual gold medals at the

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, Indoor World Championships and Arizona Cup, and team gold medals at the

World Archery Championships The World Archery Championships are a series of competitions in Archery organised by the World Archery Federation (WA). The first competition held under that title took place in 1931. Competition archery takes a wide variety of formats, but the ...

. He won the 2021 Athlete of the Year award by World Archery Americas in the compound men category. He competed at the

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held in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. He is married to Danish archer Tanja Jensen.

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* 1986 births Living people American male archers World Archery Championships medalists Archers at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States Pan American Games medalists in archery Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Competitors at the 2022 World Games 20th-century American people 21st-century American people {{US-archery-bio-stub