Iria Grandal (born 13 August 1990 in
A Coruña
A Coruña (; es, La Coruña ; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. A Coruña is the most populated city in Galicia and the second most populated municipality in the autonomous community and s ...
,
Spain
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, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
) is a Spanish
archer
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 ...
who competed at the
2012 Summer Olympics.
Grandal took up archery aged seven and at age fourteen finished third in Spain's junior archery championship. In 2012 she won qualification to that year's Olympic Games, an outcome that by her own admission was a surprise.
Grandal entered as only one of two Spaniards competing in the Olympic archery competitions in London. She finished the preliminary 72-arrow ranking round of the
women's individual event with 618 points from a maximum of 720, earning the 53rd seed for the subsequent elimination rounds. Grandal defeated the twelfth seed
Ana Maria Rendón of Colombia in the first round and narrowly lost in the second round to South Korea's
Choi Hyeon-ju
Choi Hyeon-ju (최현주, ; born 6 August 1984, in Jeonbuk) is a South Korean archer. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics where she won gold medal in the women's team event.
Career
;2012 Summer Olympics
Choi made her Olympic debut at t ...
, taking the
women's team gold medalist to a tie-breaking one-arrow shoot-off.
Grandal is the daughter of two archers and as of 2012 was a student of journalism.
References
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1990 births
Living people
Spanish female archers
Archers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic archers for Spain
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