Michele Frangilli

Michele Frangilli is an Italian recurve archer, born on 1 May 1976 in Gallarate. He won a team bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics and a team silver at the 2000 Games, and in 2012 he shot a ten with the last arrow to win the men's team gold medal final against the United States. He became world champion in the recurve division in 2003 and has won eleven world titles in indoor, target and field archery, the only recurve archer to take titles in all three specialties in both individual and team events. A former world number one, he has held several world records, co-wrote a book on Olympic archery technique called The Heretic Archer with his father and coach Vittorio Frangilli, and has been knighted by the Italian government.