Ryan's Story
Fast Facts
Sport: Archery
Event: Men's Individual, Men's Team
Olympic History: Rio 2016 (bronze), Tokyo 2020
Highlights: Bronze in Men's Team at Rio 2016
Year Born: 1991
State Born: Queensland
About Ryan
Growing up Ryan Tyack was an avid gamer, spending his days in front of the screen playing archery or fencing games.
It was an intervention from his mum, Lynette, that led Ryan away from the make-believe and into the real world of Archery.
Born in Nambour, Ryan started archery in 2000 as a nine-year-old and went on to make his junior debut in 2003. He was without a coach for his first Youth National Championships, so on short notice, his mum learnt how to repair his equipment and stepped in as coach.
Lynette did such a good job she officially took over the coaching reigns in 2004 and has remained Ryan's coach ever since.
As a teenager he represented Australia at the 2005 and 2009 Australian Youth Olympic Festivals and won team gold at the 2008 World Youth Championships alongside Taylor Worth and it was this performance that earned him a spot as reserve for Australia's Beijing 2008 Olympic Team.
Ryan's goal was to represent Australia in London 2012, and after winning silver at the Youth World Championships in 2011 he looked on track to do so, but Australia only qualified one spot for London 2012 which was awarded to Taylor.
Ryan was not deterred and finally on his third attempt he made the Rio 2016 Australian Olympic Team, also making Olympic history for his country. At Rio 2016 the team of Alec Potts, Taylor and Ryan became Australia’s first-ever medal winning archery team when they won bronze.
Ryan in the individual event scored the 23rd highest ranking round score with 665 to see him take on Robin Ramaekers of Belgium. After taking the first set, he went down 6-2 to exit in the first round.
Since Rio Ryan has become the only archer ever to win four consecutive Australian Open titles, he also won World Cup bronze and silver in 2018 and 2019 respectively.
Ready for his second Olympics at Tokyo 2020, Ryan started with the men's team event alongside Dave Barnes and Taylor.
After a brilliant first set against Chinese Taipei in which they scored 58 points, the match came down to a deciding shoot-off that Chinese Taipei won by one point, and they went on to become the silver medallists.
In the men's individual competition Ryan finished 17th after being eliminated in the 1/8 round.
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01 of 04 / RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 10: Ryan Tyack of Australia competes in the Men's Individual round of 32 Elimination Round on Day 5 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Sambodromo on August 10, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty
01 of 04 / RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 06: (L-R) Ryan Tyack, Taylor Worth and Alec Potts of Australia celebrate beating China during the Men's Team Third Place match on Day 1 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Sambodromo on August 6, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Br
01 of 04 / RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 06: (L-R) Alec Potts, Ryan Tyack and Taylor Worth of Australia celebrate with their Bronze Medals after finishing third during the Men's Team Final match on Day 1 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Sambodromo on August 6,
01 of 04 / RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 06: (L-R) Taylor Worth, Ryan Tyack and Alec Potts of Australia celebrate with Archery Australia Head Coach Ya-Ping Shih after beating China during the Men's Team Third Place match on Day 1 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at t
