Local Paralympic archer AJ Jennings has her sights set on Paris gold.
The 2024 Paralympics is the Logan Village star’s first crack at archery, but she is no stranger to top-level competition.
Ms Jennings won a silver medal at the 2016 Rio Games in the canoe.
Now one of Australia’s best para-archers, she will be competing this evening sometime between 5-9.15pm on 3 September.
If successful, she will compete in the archery finals tomorrow, 4 September, from 1.30-3.14am.
Ms Jennings first picked up the bow and arrow less than two years ago after an injury prevented her from competitively canoeing.
“It was an unexpected find for archery, because I did two games with para-canoe,” Ms Jennings told MyCity Logan before she left for Paris.
“Coming into archery and being able to take to it so quickly, I think it was a shock to everybody.
“Now that I’m in it, I want to be number one in the world.”
Ms Jennings discovered para-canoe in 2012 after losing her right leg to a form of chronic pain.
She decided to amputate her leg through the knee following two decades of suffering.
Fellow Paralympian and Logan-born champion Samantha Schmidt will be competing in the para-discus event on 7 September from 3am.
Ms Schmidt currently holds the Australian Para records in discus, shot-put and javelin in her F38 class.
Her throwing coach Ralph Newton is local heptathlete Camryn Newton-Smith’s father and coach.
