Toja Ellison ( Černe, born 4 July 1993) is a

Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...

compound Compound may refer to: Architecture and built environments * Compound (enclosure), a cluster of buildings having a shared purpose, usually inside a fence or wall ** Compound (fortification), a version of the above fortified with defensive struc ...

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 ...

. At the

2019 European Games The 2nd European Games 2019 (, ''Jeŭrapiejskija huĺni 2019''; , ''Yevropeyskiye igry 2019''), also known as the 2019 European Games or Minsk 2019 (; ), were held in Minsk, Belarus, from 21 June to 30 June 2019. The games featured 200 events in ...

held in Minsk, Belarus, she won the gold medal in the women's individual compound event.

Career

In 2017, she won the silver medal in the women's individual compound event at the

World Games The World Games are an international multi-sport event comprising sports and sporting disciplines that are not contested in the Olympic Games. They are usually held every four years, one year after a Summer Olympic Games, over the course of 11 d ...

held in Wrocław, Poland. In 2019, alongside Staš Modic, she won a silver medal in the mixed team event at the

Archery World Cup The Archery World Cup is a competition organized by World Archery, where the archers compete in four stages in four countries and the best eight archers of each category (from 2010, four archers during 2006–09) advance to an additional stage to ...

in Berlin. In 2020, she finished in 14th place in the women's compound event at The Vegas Shoot held in Las Vegas, United States. She also competed in the inaugural Lockdown Knockout tournament organised by World Archery without winning a medal. In 2021, she lost her bronze medal match in the women's individual compound event at the

World Archery Championships The World Archery Championships are a series of competitions in Archery organised by the World Archery Federation. The first competition held under that title took place in 1931. Competition archery takes a wide variety of formats, but the titl ...

held in Yankton, United States. She also competed in the mixed team event. She lost her bronze medal match in the women's individual compound event at the

2022 World Games The 2022 World Games, commonly known as Birmingham 2022, were an international multi-sport event held from July 7 to 17, 2022, in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. They were the 11th World Games, a multi-sport event featuring disciplines ...

held in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

Personal life

Ellison was born and raised in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In April 2016, she married recurve archer

Brady Ellison Brady Ellison (born October 27, 1988) is an American archer who competes in recurve archery. He holds the record for the longest continuous period as the world number-one-ranked men's recurve archer, from August 2011 to April 2013. He earned ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ellison, Toja Living people 1993 births Slovenian female archers Sportspeople from Ljubljana Archers at the 2019 European Games European Games medalists in archery European Games gold medalists for Slovenia Competitors at the 2022 World Games World Games silver medalists World Games medalists for Slovenia World Games medalists in archery 21st-century Slovenian sportswomen Medalists at the 2017 World Games