Kevin Mather

Paralympian 2020

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GOLD

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SILVER

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Athlete Bio#

Para Archery competitor Kevin Mather draws his bow with his left hand while wearing a black visor and red shirt and sitting in a wheelchair.

Age

Hometown

Santa Clarita, CA

classification: W2

Personal

He is a former Ironman triathlete and member of the U.S. Paralympic alpine skiing team. ...In July of 2009, Mather was on a training ride in the foothills of Los Angeles with a group of friends when he was hit by a truck...Won the wheelchair division of the Los Angeles Marathon in 2012 and qualified for the 2012 Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, where he finished second, covering 140.2 miles in 12 hours, 36 minutes and 16 seconds...Shot a bow for a year when he was growing up and picked one up again when a fellow volunteer at Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colorado told him he was going shooting...Decided to get serious about archery in May of 2017...He loves all shotgun sports (sporting clays, trap, skeet)...Enjoys hanging out with friends, BBQing, and nights out on the town...Earned his pilot ratings after his injury in 2009 and tries to fly as much as possible to look at the Rocky Mountains...Started with gliders and eventually added a power rating and bought his

Paralympic Experience

1-time Paralympian; 1-time Paralympic medalist (1 gold)

Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, gold (Individual Recurve Open - Men)

World Championship Experience

Most recent: 2023 – gold (Individual Recurve Open - Men), 9th (Team Recurve Open - Men), 17th (Team Recurve Open - Mixed)
Years of participation: Individual Recurve Open - Men 2017, 2022, 2023; Team Recurve Open - Men 2017, 2022, 2023; Team Recurve Open - Mixed 2023; Giant Slalom - Sitting - Men 2017
Medals: 2 (1 gold, 1 silver)