Hunger Games Archery Trainer Comes 4th at the London 2012 Olympics
Khatuna Lorig, 5 times Olympian and the archery trainer for Jennifer Lawrence, has come 4th in the Women’s Individual Archery Event at the 2012 Olympics in London. Lorig just missed out on a bronze medal to the Mexican archer, Mariana Avitia. Lorig lost 6 sets to 2 but shot incredibly well even hitting the tiny camera exactly in the center of the target! But alas it wasn’t her year.
Khatuna Lorig taught Jennifer Lawrence archery and had the actress shooting 100 arrows a day in her training for Katniss Everdeen. Lorig posed yesterday for The Hollywood Reporter wearing Katniss’ arena jacket and mockingjay pin to celebrate the interest in archery that The Hunger Games has reinvigorated. She spoke with reporters this week about working with Jennifer Lawrence:
“She was lovely. We had a great time coaching and working together. We teased each other a lot. It was a great experience. We were working on looking good on the camera mostly, but she actually got pretty good.”
To reach the 3rd place final, Lorig had beaten Bhutanese Sherab Zam, Danish Louise Laursen, Chinese Ming Cheng and French Berengere Schuh. In the semi-final she narrowly lost to South Korean Bo Bae Ki, who eventually took home the gold. Lorig also competed alongside Miranda Leek and Jennifer Nicholls for Team USA in the Women’s Team Archery Event losing to China in the quarter final. Congrats Khatuna and we’ll see you in 4 years!
Have you become interested in archery thanks to The Hunger Games?
Wow!! That’s amazing, good for her
sucks that she came in just short of a medal (maybe next time!), but that picture alone is incredibly cool. i love how she’s not only celebrating the books/movies, but also the fact that people are taking more of an interest in archery since the movie came out. A+ just for that.
Im mexican and each time Mariana came up I was thinking “come on, mexican katniss!” It was a good fight.
I watched her this mornig and she did really well! WE <3 U Khatuna Lorig!
That is so cool!!!!
I have definitely grown an interest in archery because of The Hunger Games. It was incredibly fun to watch in the Olympics and I wasn’t expecting that.
wow
SOOO AWESOME!
Good for her, it
s great to see so much growth in archery since the hunger games!
I’ve had a growing interest in archery for a while, but it was reading the hunger games that actually prompted me to learn the sport, which I love!
She rocks! A few years ago I was also practicing archery. Such a pity that there are so many boys and such less girls practicing that sport.
Thats not true. At sports camp, most of the girls are better than the boys. Ive <3d it from the beginning
@HopeHutcherson
I’m not saying that girls aren’t good at archery, in fact(just what you said) most girls are pretty good at archery. But it would be nice if there were more girls who were interested in this sport.
I missed the archery in the olympics this year
But, actually I am doing archery too!