Naomi Folkard

Quick Facts

Full Name	Naomi Folkard
Occupation	Archer
Date Of Birth	Sep 18, 1983(1983-09-18)
Age	41
Birthplace	Leamington Spa
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Virgo

Naomi Folkard Biography

Naomi Folkard is one of the most popular and richest Archer who was born on September 18, 1983 in Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom. Naomi Folkard was born in Leamington Spa (Warwickshire) on 18 September 1983. At five years old, she was introduced to archery by her family. She first tried the sport at a scout camp. She was twelve years old when she joined the British junior team. At sixteen, she moved to the British senior squad. Folkard was born to archery competitors at the county level. Her brother, who is now a member the British junior team, was also a competitor.

Folkard was selected for the 2004 Summer Olympics, joining Helen Palmer and four time Olympian Alison Williamson as members of Great Britain’s women’s team. Folkard finished the 72-arrow ranking round which determined seedings for subsequent elimination rounds in seventeenth place for the women’s individual event. She commented that while she struggled with her closing and opening arrows, the middle bit was quite good. She made it to the third round, where she was defeated in the 72-arrow ranking round by Park Sung-hyun from South Korea. This result saw her lose by the eventual gold medalist twelve points. Folkard, Palmer and Williamson did not fare well in the women’s team event, where they were defeated in the first elimination round by India.

Folkard achieved three medals at the Archery World Cup between 2007 and 2010. At the fourth stage of the 2007 World Cup in Dover she won gold in the women’s recurve tournament with Alison Williamson and Charlotte Burgess, and in the 2008 edition combined with Williamson and Burgess to take gold in the Santo Domingo in April and bronze in Boé in June. With Edinburgh selected as the host for the final stage of the 2010 World Cup, Folkard was entered as a wildcard alongside other British athletes and won silver medal in the mixed team recurve competition with Simon Terry.

At the 2007 World Archery Championships Folkard won bronze medal with Alison Williamson and Charlotte Burgess in the women’s team recurve event, defeating Italy in the third-place match after a loss to South Korea in the semi-finals. Folkard fared less well two years later at the 2009 Championships, advancing no further than the second round in both her team and individual competitions. She would however win two further bronze medals in the late 2010s, finishing third in the mixed team recurve with Patrick Huston at the 2017 Championships in Mexico City and later in the women’s team recurve at the 2019 Championships in ‘s-Hertogenbosch.

Folkard was selected for the British Olympic Archery Team in 2004, after a string of national titles. Folkard has competed regularly in international recurve events since then, including the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. She has also been a well-known competitor in field archery. She won medals at both the World Games as well as the World Field Archery Championships.

Naomi Folkard Net Worth

Naomi Folkard is one of the richest Archer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Naomi Folkard 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Naomi Anne Folkard, a British archer, was born 18 September 1983. She has represented Great Britain in four Olympic games. She represented Great Britain at both the World Archery Championships, the Archery World Cup and England at Commonwealth Games.

Folkard was the British champion in 2000, 2001 and 2003. She also competed in World Student Games 2003. She was the reserve archery team member for Britain at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She won the 2004 UK Indoor Archery Championships in women’s individual rifle category. This was shortly before she qualified for the Olympics in Athens. Folkard was a medallist at the 2006 European Indoor Archery Championships, finishing second and taking home a silver medal.

Folkard studied music at the University of Birmingham, competing in the 2004 Summer Olympics shortly after finishing her second year examinations. She began playing the violin and the piano at a young age, and credits her early experiences with the violin for her adeptness at archery, saying “it was obvious I had a greater co-ordination than most children of my age because of my music”. In 2009 Folkard said had she not become an archer she would probably be a member of an orchestra.

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Folkard secured her place as one of three British female archers for the 2012 Olympic games in April 2012 at the national trials held in Lilleshall. She and teammates Williamson and Amy Oliver exited early from the women’s team event after defeat to Russia in the opening round, having finished eleventh out of twelve nations in the ranking round. Folkard entered the elimination rounds of the women’s individual event as the highest-placed Briton in forty-second place. Following a first-round victory over Russia’s Kristina Timofeeva, which was praised by The Telegraph as a “fitting riposte” following the earlier British loss in the team event, Folkard bowed out to Mexico’s Mariana Avitia in the second round.

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Folkard later took a bronze medal at the 2017 Indoor World Cup in Nîmes.