Phoebe Paterson Pine (born 3 December 1997) is a British

paralympian The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Kore ...

and

archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern ...

. She won gold in the Women's individual compound open at the

2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport event, multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the Inte ...

in Tokyo. She defeated Jessica Stretton, and Tatiana Andrievskaia, to advance to the final. She competed at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris.

Career

Born in Siddington, Gloucestershire, Paterson Pine competed at the 2017 World Para Archery Championships, where she won a bronze medal. Paterson Pine was appointed

Member of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

(MBE) in the

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for services to archery. She won the bronze medal in her event at the 2022 World Para Archery Championships held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. She competed at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris where she was beaten into fourth place by her seven-month pregnant colleague

Jodie Grinham Jodie Michelle Grinham (born 26 July 1993) is a British archer who represents Great Britain in the Summer Paralympics. She won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro and at the 2024 Summer Paralympics she won team gold ...

References

External links

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Phoebe Paterson Pine at the IPC Tokyo 2020 website
* * 1997 births Living people British female archers Paralympic archers for Great Britain Paralympic gold medalists for Great Britain Paralympic medalists in archery Archers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Members of the Order of the British Empire 21st-century British sportswomen Archers at the 2024 Summer Paralympics {{UK-archery-bio-stub