Alec Potts (born 19 February 1996) is an Australian competitive

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. Potts made history at the 2016 Summer Olympics by bagging the country's first ever medal with a bronze in the men's team recurve. Potts was selected to compete for the Australian squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics in

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, shooting in both individual and team recurve tournaments. First, he recorded 666 points, 37 perfect tens, and 13 bull's eyes to take the twentieth seed heading to the knockout draw from the classification round, along with his team's cumulative score of 2,005. Sitting at fourth to move directly through the quarterfinals in the men's team recurve, Alec and his compatriots

Ryan Tyack Ryan Tyack (born 2 June 1991) is an Australian archer competing in men's recurve events at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He earned a gold medal at the 2006 Junior World Outdoor Target Championships in the male recurve cadet event. He also won a g ...

and London 2012 Olympian

Taylor Worth Taylor Worth (born 8 January 1991) is an Australian archer competing in recurve events. He won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the men's team event, a gold medal at the United States Open and at the 2008 World Youth Archery Cha ...

confidently beat the Frenchmen with a 5–3 for the semifinals, before they were soundly beaten by the tournament favorites South Korea in straight sets (0–6). Bouncing back from their semifinal loss, the Australian trio held off a late reaction from China in the bronze medal match (6–2) to secure the country's first ever Olympic podium finish in a team archery event. In the men's individual recurve, Potts was unable to overcome local archer Bernardo Oliveira by the loud applause of the parochial crowd in the opening round, thereby eliminating him from the tournament 4–6.

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