 Jodie Grinham with her 2016 Paralympic silver medal | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 July 1993 (1993-07-26) (age 32) Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales |
| Education | BPP Law School |
| Sport | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sport | Archery |
Event | Compound archery |
Medal record | |
| Updated on 19 November 2024 | |
Jodie Michelle Grinham (born 26 July 1993[1]) is a British archer who represents Great Britain in the Summer Paralympics. She won a silver medal at the2016 Summer Paralympics inRio de Janeiro and at the2024 Summer Paralympics she won team gold and individual bronze, while seven months pregnant with her second child.
Grinham was born with a short left arm, no fingers and only half a thumb on her left hand. She was the first person with such a disability to attempt archery, so to avoid breaking the rule that the bow must not be attached to the archer, Grinham and her father Symon created a novel way of helping her grip her bow.[2]
She was a student atBPP Law School in Waterloo, London.[2]
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Grinham first started archery in 2008.[3] She was first selected for the Great Britain archery team in 2014,[2] and finished seventh at the World Para-archery Championships in Germany in 2015.[3]
Grinham competed in thewomen's individual compound open and theteam compound open events at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
In the individual event, Grinham reached the quarter-finals, losing toSomayeh Abbaspour ofIran.[4]
In the team event, Grinham partneredJohn Stubbs. The pair finished the preliminary ranking round seeded 5th of 10 teams with a score of 1,324. After defeatingItaly in the quarterfinals andSouth Korea in semi-finals, Grinham and Stubbs facedChina in the gold medal match, but were bested by the Chinese duo of Zhou Jiamin and Ai Xinliang 151-143. This was however enough to earn Grinham a silver medal.[5][6]
Grinham competed in the2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris in the women's Individual Compound event and the Mixed Team Compound. She achieved a personal best in the individual compound open ranking round, shooting a score of 693 and winning the bronze medal.[7][8] She also won gold in the mixed team compound alongsideNathan MacQueen.[9]
Grinham was also the first-ever Paralympic athlete known to compete while pregnant, competing at seven-months pregnant.[10][7][8]
