Jodie was born in Haverfordwest and studied law before focusing on becoming an elite athlete with enormous success, as she is a Paralympic silver medallist, World Champion and European medallist. Jodie has a condition called brachysyndactyly and has a shortened left arm, an underdeveloped left shoulder, no fingers and half a thumb on her left hand.
When she took up archery in , she worked with her father to develop a way to grip the bow. Jodie was first selected for the GB archery team in and finished seventh at the World Para-archery Championships in Germany in She competed in the women's individual compound open and the team compound open events at the Paralympics in Rio, reaching the quarter-finals in the individual event.
In the compound mixed team event, Jodie and partner John Stubbs finished the preliminary ranking round, fifth out of 10 teams. After defeating Italy in the quarter-finals and South Korea in semi-finals, they lost in the final to Chinese duo of Zhou Jiamin and Ai Xinliang β with a silver medal being a tremendous achievement. She and Phoebe also won the compound open doubles bronze medal at the European Para Championships.
From a sporty family, Aled was a keen sportsman from a young age. He represented Wales at swimming as a child while in he was invited by Disability Sport Wales to try out different Paralympic sports and picked up a shot put and discus for the first time.
It set Aled on an extraordinary journey of dedication, hard work and success. Progressing his classification world records from He is currently unbeaten in all major tournaments over the last 10 years.
