Mélanie Gaubil (born 4 October 1997) is a French archer who competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.
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Born | 4 October 1997 | (age 26)||||||||||||||
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Country | France | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Archery | ||||||||||||||
Event | Recurve | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
Gaubil contested the 2013 French National Archery Championships in both the junior and senior categories, finishing as the runner-up in the former and sixth overall in the latter after being eliminated in the quarter-finals. She later achieved a bronze medal in the women's team event at the Mediterranean Games in Mersin, and by the end the year had set five new national records.[1]
Gaubil made her Olympic debut at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing. She placed fifth in the 72-arrow ranking round, setting a personal record of 663 points from 720 despite suffering from an inflamed shoulder,[2] before progressing through the elimination rounds to the final. She was defeated by China's Li Jiaman in a tie-breaking one-arrow shoot-off, receiving the silver medal as the runner-up.[3]
Gaubil reached her first senior international final at the opening stage of the 2019 Archery World Cup, where she lost in straight sets to South Korea's Kang Chae-young.[4]
She is coached by Nicholas Rifaut and is a member of Les archers leguevinois, an archery club.[5]