Naomi Folkard
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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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18 September 1983 (age 33) Leamington Spa, Warwickshire |
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| Education | University of Birmingham | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Archery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Naomi Anne Folkard (born 18 September 1983) is a British archer who has represented Great Britain at four Olympic games. She has also represented Great Britain at the World Archery Championships and the Archery World Cup, and England at the Commonwealth Games.
Following a string of national titles in the early 2000s, Folkard won selection for the British Olympic archery team in 2004. She has since regularly competed in international recurve archery events, including the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Summer Olympics. She is also a prominent competitor in field archery, having won medals at the World Games and the World Field Archery Championships.
Folkard was born in Leamington Spa on 18 September 1983. She took up archery aged five, becoming a member of the British senior when she was sixteen. Both her parents and her brother have taken part in archery competitions. Folkard is also an accomplished musician, playing the violin and the piano since a young age. She is a member of the Birmingham University Orchestra, having studied music at the University of Birmingham as a student, competing in the 2004 Olympics shortly after finishing her second year examinations.
Folkard was British champion in 2000, 2001, and 2003, and competed in the World Student Games in 2003. She was a reserve for Britain's archery team for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In 2004 she won the UK Indoor Archery Championships in the women's individual recurve category, shortly before qualifying for the Olympics in Athens later that year.
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