BILLINGS — Olympic archer and Billings resident Brady Ellison claimed silver in the men’s individual archery competition Sunday at the Paris Olympics.
It was the second medal for Ellison at these Olympics, as he also teamed with Casey Kaufhold for the bronze in the mixed team archery event on Friday.
The Billings Gazette and 406 MT Sports reached Ellison’s wife of eight years, Slovenian archer Toja Ellison, who was in Paris with the couple’s two children, nearly 4-year-old son Ty and 6-month-old son Bo, to cheer on her husband.
Brady Ellison, of the United States celebrates with Casey Kaufhold after winning the Archery mixed team bronze medal match against India’s Ankita Bhakat and Dhiraj Bommadevara at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, in Paris, France.
“I am proud of him. What he has done this Olympic Games is incredible,” she said. “To me as an archer, I understand the game: how the archer feels and everything in our life leading up to the Games. He is amazing. The way he shot was beautiful and incredible and he was so solid. I am proud of him because he is an amazing person, father and husband and is a very good archer. I am very proud of him, all that he is.”
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Ellison, an Arizona native, lives in Billings with his wife and two children. The family settled in Billings about three years ago, moving from Globe, Arizona, Toja explained, and live in the Magic City full-time. In Billings, the temperatures in the summer aren’t too hot to enjoy the outdoors most days, Toja explained, the spring and fall “are beautiful” and in the winter the family has experienced “memorable moments sledding the hill and laughing.”
“Brady is an outdoorsman and loves hunting and fishing. And I was born in Slovenia, where we have equal all four seasons,” Toja said. “When we lived in Arizona, I told him I’d choose him over and over again, but the place was too hot for me. We found something for both of us with hunting and fishing and all four seasons.”
