Taymon Kenton-Smith (born 6 September 1994) is an Australian Paralympic Recurve Archer. He represented Australia at the

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, in Men's individual recurve, and Mixed team recurve and has been selected to compete at the 2024 Paris Paralympics .

Personal

Kenton-Smith was born on 6 September 1994. He was born without any fingers on his left hand. He designed the logo for his Facebook Archery page himself, along with the saying "Half the hand, Twice the effort", and is known by many around him to be very focused and driven when achieving goals. Kenton-Smith completed a Bachelor of Arts at the

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and Graduate Diploma in Education from the

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Archery

He took up archery in 2001 when he was only 6 years of age. At 14 he made a promise to his grandmother to make it to the Paralympic Games. She wrote to Take 5 Magazine and with the money won in their "Wishing Well" competition he purchased a Recurve Bow. At Archery Australia’s 2021 Para & VI National Championships, he was third in the Para Open Male Recurve. He is a member of the Samford Valley Target Archers in Brisbane. In 2020, the

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sports engineering section developed a custom grip for his left hand that had no fingers. At the 2020 Tokto Paralympics, in the Men's individual recurve he qualified 18th with a score of 604 out of a possible 720 but then lost to Eric Bennett of the USA in the Round of 32. He teamed with Imalia Oktrininda in the Mixed team recurve where they lost in the Round of 32 to Milena Olszewska of Poland. Taymon Tokyo

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External links

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The Price of Beer #1 Taymon Kenton-Smith YouTube

Archery Australia Profile
Living people Paralympic archers for Australia Archers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Archers at the 2024 Summer Paralympics Australian male archers 1994 births People from Kingaroy Sportsmen from Queensland {{Australia-archery-bio-stub