Lisa Unruh (born 12 April 1988) is a German athlete who competes in recurve

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. Unruh represented

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at the

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winning the silver medal. Her Silver medal was the first individual medal in archery her country has ever won at the Olympic Games. She represented Germany at the

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, winning a bronze medal in the team archery event.

Career

Lisa Unruh started internationally in 2006, at the European Championships in 2006 she got the German team to fourth place. Unruh has won team medals at

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and World Indoor Championships and

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stages, and an individual medal at the 2012 Indoor World Cup. In 2014, she qualified for the World Cup Final in

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for the first time. In 2017, Unruh won the gold medal at The World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland.

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* * * * * 1988 births Living people German female archers Archers at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Germany Olympic archers for Germany Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Archery Championships medalists Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in archery World Games gold medalists Competitors at the 2017 World Games Archers at the 2019 European Games Competitors at the 2009 World Games World Games medalists in archery Archers at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century German women {{Germany-archery-bio-stub