Brady Ellison

Brady Ellison

Ellison at the 2010 World Cup
Personal information
Full name	Brady Lee Ellison
Born	October 27, 1988 (1988-10-27) (age 28) Glendale, Arizona, U.S.
Height	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight	190 lb (86 kg)
Medal record Recurve archery Representing the  United States Olympic Games 2012 London Team 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual World Championships 2013 Belek Team 2013 Belek Mixed team 2011 Torino Individual Pan American Games 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team 2011 Guadalajara Individual 2011 Guadalajara Team 2015 Toronto Individual 2015 Toronto Team World Cup 2010 Edinburgh Individual 2011 Istanbul Individual 2012 Tokyo Mixed Team 2014 Lausanne Individual 2016 Odense Individual 2013 Paris Individual World Indoor Championships 2009 Rzeszów Team 2012 Las Vegas Team 2012 Las Vegas Individual 2014 Nimes Individual World Field Championships 2014 Zagreb Individual 2014 Zagreb Team World Games 2013 Cali Individual

Brady 'The Prospector' Ellison (born October 27, 1988) is an American archer who competes in recurve archery. He is currently a Resident Athlete at the United States Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California. 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 his nickname "The Prospector" during the 2015 world championships due to his proclivity for 'finding gold'.

As a child Ellison suffered from the Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease and wore leg braces for a year. He is an avid hunter, and killed a bear aged 11. On April 22, 2016, he married Slovenian archer Toja Cerne.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ellison finished his ranking round with a total of 664 points, which gave him the 15th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced John Burnes in the first round. Ellison won the match 111–89 and advanced to the second round. Here he was unable to beat another Canadian Jay Lyon, who was too strong with 113–107. Together with Butch Johnson and Vic Wunderle he also took part in the team event. With his 664 score from the ranking round combined with the 653 of Johnson and the 652 of Wunderle the Americans were in 10th position after the ranking round. In the first round they lost to Chinese Taipei, 222–218.

Ellison secured his spot for the 2012 Olympics at the USA Archery's Olympic Trials in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is sponsored by Solve Media, Hoyt Archery, Easton Arrows, and Axcel Sight and Scopes, among others. He won a silver team medal together with his Jake Kaminski and Jacob Wukie.

At the 2016 Rio Games Ellison won an individual bronze and team silver medals.

Ellison appeared in an episode of the American-based TV show Mythbusters, where he helped to test the myth of the Ancient Greek 'arrow machine gun' (a mythical device that could fire arrows in a way similar to modern machine guns). With Ellison's help, the myth was deemed Plausible.