Iria Grandal
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Born (1990-08-13) 13 August 1990 (age 33)
A Coruña, Spain
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Country Spain
SportArchery
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Iria Grandal (born 13 August 1990 in A Coruña, Spain) is a Spanish archer who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Grandal took up archery aged seven and at age fourteen finished third in Spain's junior archery championship. In 2012 she won qualification to that year's Olympic Games, an outcome that by her own admission was a surprise.[1]

Grandal entered as only one of two Spaniards competing in the Olympic archery competitions in London. She finished the preliminary 72-arrow ranking round of the women's individual event with 618 points from a maximum of 720, earning the 53rd seed for the subsequent elimination rounds.[2] Grandal defeated the twelfth seed Ana Maria Rendón of Colombia in the first round and narrowly lost in the second round to South Korea's Choi Hyeon-ju, taking the women's team gold medalist to a tie-breaking one-arrow shoot-off.[3][4]

Grandal is the daughter of two archers and as of 2012 was a student of journalism.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Tiro con arco: Iria Grandal, subcampiona de Europa de tiro con arco por equipos" [Archery: Iria Grandal, Europe's archery runner-up] (in Spanish). Corporación Radio e Televisión de Galicia. 27 July 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Elías Cuesta e Iria Grandal se estrenan en tiro con arco" [Elías Cuesta and Iria Grandal premiere in archery]. Hoy: Diario de Extremadura (in Spanish). EFE. 27 July 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Londres 2012: Iria Grandal cae en dieciseisavos de final" [London 2012: Iria Grandal falls in the round of 16]. ABC (in Spanish). 1 August 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Iria Grandal también dice adiós" [Iria Grandal also says goodbye]. Marca (in Spanish). EFE. 1 August 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  5. ^ Cudeiro, Juan (29 July 2012). "Iria busca la diana" [Iria looks for the target]. El Pais (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 January 2020.

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