Lucas Daniel (born 1 January 1995) is a French competitive
archer
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. He attained a fourth-place finish in the men's team recurve at the 2015 European Games, and eventually competed as a member of the French archery squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Daniel was selected to compete for the French squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics in
Rio de Janeiro
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, shooting in both individual and team recurve tournaments. First, Daniel amassed 666 points out of a maximum 720 to obtain a twenty-first seed heading to the knockout stage, along with his team's score of 2,003 collected from the classification round. Sitting at fifth in the men's team recurve, Daniel and his compatriots
Pierre Plihon
Pierre Plihon (born 29 October 1989 in Nice), is a French athlete who competes in recurve archery.
Plihon first competed internationally in 2014, in which year he won a team gold medal at the 2014 European Archery Championships in Echmiadzin ...
and
Jean-Charles Valladont
Jean-Charles Valladont (born 20 March 1989) is a French archer. He competed at the 2008 and 2016 Olympics, the latter in which he won a silver medal. He won another silver medal at the 2015 World Cup.men's individual recurve, Daniel succumbed to the reigning European Games champion
Miguel Alvariño
Miguel Alvariño Garcia (born May 31, 1994, in As Pontes de García Rodríguez, Galicia) is an athlete from Spain, who competes in recurve archery. He found prominence as the winner of the men's individual archery
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of Spain, who scored straight-set victories in the opening round.