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

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and ...

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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 ...

. 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, 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 ...

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, started in 2006, organized by the World Archery Federation, 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) ad ...

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 (WA). The first competition held under that title took place in 1931. Competition archery takes a wide variety of formats, but the ...

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 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 of Olympic sports and other competition ...

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.

References

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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 2017 World Games Competitors at the 2022 World Games World Games silver medalists World Games medalists in archery 20th-century Slovenian women 21st-century Slovenian women