- Killed a bear when he was 11.
- Won 6 medals from the World Cup - 5 gold in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2016; one bronze in 2013.
- Won 3 Olympic medals - 2 silver in the team event in 2012 and 2016; one bronze in the Individual in 2016.
- Earned his nickname "The Prospector" during the 2015 World Championships due to his proclivity for 'finding gold'.
- Is an archer, who competes in recurve archery.
- Participated at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
- Won one silver medal in the Individual at the 2013 World Games.
- Won 3 medals from the World Championships - one gold and one silver in 2013; one bronze in 2011.
- Won 2 gold medals in the Individual and in the team event at the 2014 World Field Championships in Zagreb.
- Won 5 medals from the Pan American Games - 3 gold in 2007 and 2011; 2 silver in 2015.
- Holds the record for the longest continuous period as the world number-one-ranked men's recurve archer, from August 2011 to April 2013.
- Parents are Julie Nichols and Alfred Ellison.
- Won 4 medals from the World Indoor Championships - 2 gold in 2009 and 2012; 2 bronze in 2012 and 2014.
- Was a guest star in one episode of the TV show Mythbusters. There he helped to test the myth of the Ancient Greek 'arrow machine gun' (a mythical device that could fire arrows in a way similar to modern machine guns).
- In his childhood suffered from the Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease and wore leg braces for a year.
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