Kitchener archer takes aim at Olympic gold in Paris [Video]

A world-class archer from Kitchener is shooting for the podium in this year’s Olympic Games.

Eric Peters, the fifth-ranked archer in the world, qualified for his first Summer Games after serving as alternate for Team Canada at Tokyo 2020.

“I just missed out and that was really hard for me to take,” Peters told CTV News. “Knowing I was going this time was just great.”

Peters is originally from Ottawa and trains at the Archery Canada range in Cambridge five to six times per week.

Now 16 years into the sport, he said his passion came at an early age.

“I was always a really nerdy kid. I loved fantasy books and games and all that sort of stuff,” Peters said “Archery was always very interesting to me. Something that I always wanted to really do and something that I was really good at.”

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