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Casey Kaufhold

Casey Kaufhold (/ˈkɔːfoʊld/ KAW-fohld; born March 6, 2004)[1][2] is an American archer competing in women's recurve events. She won the silver medal in the women's individual event at the 2021 World Archery Championships held in Yankton, United States. She competed in the women's individual and women's team events at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[3][4][5]

Casey Kaufhold
Personal information
Born (2004-03-06) March 6, 2004 (age 20)
Home townLancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Sport
CountryUnited States
SportArchery
EventRecurve
Medal record
Women's recurve archery
Representing  United States
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris Mixed team
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2021 Yankton Individual
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2022 Paris Mixed team
Gold medal – first place 2023 Antalya Mixed team
Gold medal – first place 2023 Paris Individual
Silver medal – second place 2019 Medellín Mixed team
Silver medal – second place 2022 Gwangju Mixed team
Silver medal – second place 2022 Medellín Mixed team
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima Team
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima Mixed team
Gold medal – first place 2023 Santiago Team
Gold medal – first place 2023 Santiago Mixed team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Lima Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Santiago Individual
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Medellín Individual
Gold medal – first place 2024 Medellín Team
Silver medal – second place 2022 Santiago Team
Silver medal – second place 2022 Santiago Mixed team
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Santiago Individual
Junior Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2021 Cali Mixed team
Silver medal – second place 2021 Cali Team
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Cali Individual

In 2019, Kaufhold won the bronze medal in the women's individual recurve event at the Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru.[6][7][8] She also won the gold medal in both the women's team recurve and mixed team recurve events.[9]

Career

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In 2019, Kaufhold competed in the women's team recurve event at the World Archery Championships held in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.[10] Kaufhold, Khatuna Lorig and Erin Mickelberry advanced to the elimination rounds where they were eliminated in their first match against Sweden.[10] In August 2019, Kaufhold and Josef Scarboro won the silver medal in the cadet mixed team recurve event at the World Archery Youth Championships held in Madrid, Spain.[11]

In that same year, as part of the 2019 Archery World Cup, Kaufhold and Brady Ellison won the silver medal in the mixed team competition held in Medellín, Colombia.[7] In September 2019, she set a new junior world record for the 72-arrow 70-metre ranking round with a score of 675 out of a possible 720 points.[7]

Kaufhold qualified at the 2021 US Olympic Trials to represent the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[12] She also set a new under-21 world record of 682 out of a possible 720 points during the qualification round.[13][14] At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she placed 17th in the ranking round in the women's individual event. In the competition bracket, she defeated Inés de Velasco of Spain and she was then eliminated by Ren Hayakawa of Japan. In the team competition, the American team finished in third place in the opening round and they were eliminated in the competition bracket by Svetlana Gomboeva, Elena Osipova and Ksenia Perova of the ROC.[15][16]

Two months after the Olympics, Kaufhold won the silver medal in the women's individual event at the 2021 World Archery Championships held in Yankton, United States.[17][18] In her semi-final, she defeated 2020 Tokyo Olympic champion An San of South Korea and, in her gold medal match, she lost against Jang Min-hee of South Korea.[14][17] This was the first medal won by an American archer in this event in over thirty years.[19][a] Two months later, she won three medals at the 2021 Junior Pan American Games held in Cali, Colombia: she won the gold medal in the mixed team event, the silver medal in the women's team event and the bronze medal in the women's individual event.[20] A few months later, she won the 2021 Athlete of the Year award by World Archery Americas in the recurve cadet women category.[21]

In 2022, she won the women's recurve event at the Vegas Shoot held in Las Vegas, United States.[22]

Kaufhold competed at the 2023 World Archery Championships held in Berlin, Germany. She lost her bronze medal match in the women's individual recurve event.[23] She also competed in the women's team recurve and recurve mixed team events.[24] Kaufhold won three medals, including two gold medals, at the 2023 Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile.[25]

Kaufhold won two gold medals at the 2024 Pan American Archery Championships held in Medellín, Colombia: she won the gold medal in the women's individual recurve event and in the women's team recurve event.

Kaufhold and Brady Ellison won the bronze medal in the mixed team event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France. The duo faced off against Dhiraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat of India in the Bronze Medal match, before defeating them to claim Bronze. She also competed in the women's individual and women's team events.

Personal life

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As of 2022, she studies visualization at the College of Architecture of Texas A&M University.[26]

Notes

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  1. ^ Denise Parker won bronze at the 1989 World Archery Championships held in Lausanne, Switzerland.

References

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  1. ^ "KAUFHOLD Casey". Olympics.com. 2024. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
  2. ^ "Casey Kaufhold". 2019 Pan American Games. Archived from the original on August 13, 2019. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  3. ^ "Archery KAUFHOLD Casey". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on July 24, 2021. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  4. ^ "Casey-Kaufhold". Team USA. Archived from the original on August 14, 2020.
  5. ^ Writer, BURT WILSON | Sports (July 28, 2021). "Lancaster archer Casey Kaufhold completes her Olympic competition". LancasterOnline. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  6. ^ Rourke, Brendan (August 11, 2019). "15-year-old Casey Kaufhold Leads The Way For USA Archery On Last Day Of Pan Am Games". Team USA. Archived from the original on August 12, 2019. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  7. ^ a b c Wells, Chris (September 23, 2019). "Casey Kaufhold's 675-point ranking round ratified as junior world record". World Archery. Archived from the original on October 2, 2019. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  8. ^ Gillen, Nancy (August 12, 2019). "Zanotti earns Paraguay's first Pan American Games gold as golf concludes Lima 2019". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  9. ^ "Archery Results Book" (PDF). 2019 Pan American Games. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 30, 2020. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  10. ^ a b "2019 World Archery Championships" (PDF). World Archery. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 20, 2020. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  11. ^ "2019 World Archery Youth Championships Results Book" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 7, 2022. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
  12. ^ Majumdar, Srijanee (June 2, 2021). "US Olympic Trials 2021: Archers Brady Ellison and Casey Kaufhold qualify for Tokyo Olympics with wins". www.sportskeeda.com. Retrieved June 17, 2021.
  13. ^ "Casey Kaufhold sets under-21 world record during US Olympic trials". World Archery. May 31, 2021. Retrieved September 27, 2021.
  14. ^ a b Price, Karen (September 26, 2021). "17-Year-Old Archer Casey Kaufhold's Silver Ends 33-Year Medal Drought at Worlds". Team USA. Retrieved September 27, 2021.
  15. ^ "Olympic competition starts for Lancaster County archer". WGAL. July 23, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  16. ^ REPORT, STAFF AND WIRE (July 22, 2021). "Lancaster's Casey Kaufhold 17th in preliminary archery round at Tokyo Olympics". LancasterOnline. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  17. ^ a b "Jang Minhee battles to world champion title in Yankton". World Archery. September 26, 2021. Retrieved September 26, 2021.
  18. ^ "2021 World Archery Championships Results Book" (PDF). IANSEO - Integrated Result System. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 26, 2021. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
  19. ^ Rosen, Karen (September 29, 2021). "Teen Archer Casey Kaufhold Carries Momentum Into World Cup Final". Team USA. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
  20. ^ "Mexico and USA share recurve titles at Cali 2021". World Archery Americas. November 28, 2021. Retrieved November 30, 2021.
  21. ^ "World Archery Americas announces award winners for 2021". World Archery Americas. February 18, 2022. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
  22. ^ Wells, Chris (February 7, 2022). "Teenagers Bodie Turner, Liko Arreola win Vegas Shootdowns". World Archery. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
  23. ^ "Kaufhold defeats Olympic champ in claiming fourth at the World Archery Championships". USA Archery. August 6, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
  24. ^ "2023 World Archery Championships Results Book" (PDF). World Archery. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2023. Retrieved August 12, 2023.
  25. ^ "Archery Results Book" (PDF). 2023 Pan American Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 21, 2024. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
  26. ^ "Olympian Casey Kaufhold to Join USA Archery". USA Archery. February 1, 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
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