The 2024 Summer Olympics are under way, and so is Brady Ellison’s quest for gold.
Brady Ellison, the son of Alfred Ellison, Senior Supervisor-Hydromet SX-Miami, is in Paris to compete in the men’s individual recurve archery event as the only male archer representing the U.S. This will be Brady Ellison’s fifth consecutive Olympics. His first match is scheduled for Thursday. If Brady Ellison successfully progresses through the competition, the medal matches would occur on Sunday.
Brady Ellison’s Olympic resume includes two silver medals and one bronze medal, in addition to multiple gold medals at the World Archery Championships, the World Indoor Archery Championships and the Pan American Games. In his previous Olympic competition, Brady Ellison even used his bow to offer a nod his Globe roots.
“Everyone needs to look at my bow this year because I’m shooting a copper bow because I’m from a copper town,” Brady Ellison said in a 2021 FM News story previewing his participation in that year’s Olympics in Tokyo.
Currently ranked No. 7 in the world in men’s individual recurve archery, Brady Ellison’s roots in the sport go back to his youth, and he began excelling at regional and national competitions in his teens.
“He’s always had amazing natural talent, and he works extremely hard and always has,” Alfred Ellison said in that 2021 FM News story. “But what I’ve always been much more proud of is the person Brady is, how humble he has stayed, and how helpful he is to anybody and everybody after shoots and things, and not a lot of archers do that.”