Steve Wijler (born 19 September 1996)
is a Dutch
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 mo ...
competing in men's
recurve events. He won the bronze medal in the men's individual recurve event at the
2017 World Archery Championships
The 2017 World Archery Championships was the 49th edition of the event. It was held in Mexico City, Mexico from 15 to 22 October 2017 and was organised by World Archery Federation (formerly known as FITA). Qualification and elimination rounds to ...
held in Mexico City, Mexico.
In 2021, Wijler and
Gabriela Schloesser
Gabriela Schloesser ( Bayardo, born 18 February 1994) is a Mexican-born Dutch recurve archer from Tijuana who represented Mexico before 2016, and has represented the Netherlands since 2017. In 2021, Schloesser and Steve Wijler won the silver ...
won the silver medal in the
mixed team event at the
2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Career
In 2018, Wijler won the gold medal in the men's team event at the
World Indoor Archery Championships held in Yankton, United States. At the
2018 European Archery Championships in Legnica, Poland, he won the gold medal in the men's individual recurve event.
Wijler
represented the Netherlands at the
2019 European Games
The 2nd European Games 2019 ( be, II Еўрапейскія гульні, ''Jeŭrapiejskija huĺni 2019''; russian: II Европейские игры, ''Yevropeyskiye igry 2019''), informally known as Minsk 2019, was held in Minsk, Belarus, from 2 ...
held in Minsk, Belarus and he won the silver medal in both the
individual recurve and
team recurve events.
In 2021, Wijler won the gold medal in the men's team recurve event at the
European Archery Championships held in Antalya, Turkey.
He also won the silver medal at the
2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan in the
mixed team event. He also competed in the
men's individual and
men's team events. Two months later, he competed at the
2021 World Archery Championships held in Yankton, United States.
In 2022, Wijler won the men's recurve event at the Dutch National Indoor Archery Championships.
Wijler
represented the Netherlands at the
2023 European Games
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held in Poland. He competed in the
men's individual recurve,
men's team recurve and
mixed team recurve events. He also competed at the
2023 World Archery Championships held in Berlin, Germany.
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Living people
1996 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Dutch male archers
European Games medalists in archery
European Games silver medalists for the Netherlands
Archers at the 2019 European Games
Archers at the 2023 European Games
World Archery Championships medalists
Olympic archers for the Netherlands
Archers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in archery
21st-century Dutch people