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 21)
Home town	Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Archery
Event	Recurve
Medal record Women's recurve archery Representing  United States Olympic Games 2024 Paris Mixed team World Championships 2021 Yankton Individual World Cup 2022 Paris Mixed team 2023 Antalya Mixed team 2023 Paris Individual 2019 Medellín Mixed team 2022 Gwangju Mixed team 2022 Medellín Mixed team Pan American Games 2019 Lima Team 2019 Lima Mixed team 2023 Santiago Team 2023 Santiago Mixed team 2019 Lima Individual 2023 Santiago Individual Pan American Championships 2024 Medellín Individual 2024 Medellín Team 2022 Santiago Team 2022 Santiago Mixed team 2022 Santiago Individual Junior Pan American Games 2021 Cali Mixed team 2021 Cali Team 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

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

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

Notes

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