Danielle Brown at the Paralympics London 2012 Credit: PA
Great Britain`s Paralympic archery champion Danielle Brown has won silver as she starts her World Cup career in Tokyo. Brown who is from Lothersdale near Skipton was a late call-up to the tournament after the withdrawal of Olga Bosch. Jamie Van Natta took the main prize.
Brown, a Paralympic gold winner at both Beijing and London became the first female archer with a disability to compete in a non-disabled World Cup Grand Final. She took up the sport at the age of 15 after she was diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
Postbox to be painted gold in Skipton for Danielle
The postbox in Skipton is being painted gold Credit: Adam Fowler
Work gets underway turning a post box in Skipton gold, in honour of Danielle Brown’s Paralympic gold medal win in the Archery: Women’s Individual Compound.
Rotherham archer Amy Oliver has described her first Olympic experience as "addictive" after being knocked out of London 2012.
The 25-year-old caused the upset of her career after beating World number one Deepika Kumari, before bowing out in the last 16 losing 7-1 to Yuliana Rochmawati of Indonesia.
I’d say at this moment that would probably be my highlight. I’ve won medals before but it was really nice to have the support. I’ve never had that before where there was so many people in the crowd.
I just tried to do everything I could basically. So long as I shot well, I was happy. If I was going to go out there and shoot rubbish shots I’d have been really disappointed.
It's addictive and I want to do it again. Hopefully I'll be back in four years.
