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{{Short description|American archer (born 1956)}}
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| birth_place    = [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], United States
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{{MedalSport|Men's [[archery]]}}
{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Archery at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[1976 Summer Olympics|1976 Montreal]] | [[Archery at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's individual|Individual]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[1984 Summer Olympics|1984 Los Angeles]] | [[Archery at the 1984 Summer Olympics|Individual]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[1988 Summer Olympics|1988 Seoul]] | [[Archery at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's team|Team]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Pan American Games]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[1979 Pan American Games|1979 San Juan]] | [[Archery at the 1979 Pan American Games|Team]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[1983 Pan American Games|1983 Caracas]] | [[Archery at the 1983 Pan American Games|Individual]]}}
{{MedalGold | 1983 Caracas | Team}}
{{MedalGold | [[1987 Pan American Games|1987 Indianapolis]] | [[Archery at the 1987 Pan American Games|Team]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[1991 Pan American Games|1991 Havana]] | [[Archery at the 1991 Pan American Games|Individual]]}}
{{MedalGold | 1991 Havana | Individual (70 m)}}
{{MedalSilver | 1979 San Juan | Individual}}
{{MedalBronze | 1987 Indianapolis | Individual}}
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'''Darrell Owen Pace''' (born October 23, 1956) is a former [[Archery|archer]] from the [[United States]], who won two individual [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] and [[World Archery Championships|World Championships]] titles each during his career. In 2011, as part of the [[World Archery Federation]]'s 80th anniversary celebration, he was declared as by the WAF as "Archer of the Century" <ref>[https://www.justhamilton.com/sure-shot/ "Sure Shot: Darrell Pace remembers the day he first tried archery"], ''The Hamiltonian'' (Hamilton, Ohio)</ref>

==Career==
Three years after taking up the sport, Pace, at the age of 16, became the youngest member of the U. S. team at the archery world championships, where he finished twenty-third.

Pace went on to win four consecutive national archery championships, from 1973 through 1976. He also won the title in 1978 and 1980. He won the world title in 1975 and 1979 and finished second to long-time rival [[Richard McKinney (archer)|Richard McKinney]] in 1983.<ref name=sr/>

After winning an Olympic gold medal in 1976, Pace was selected for the 1980 Olympic team but did not compete due to the U.S. Olympic Committee's [[1980 Summer Olympics boycott|boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics]] in Moscow, Soviet Union. He was one of 461 athletes to receive a [[List of Congressional Gold Medal recipients|Congressional Gold Medal]] instead.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Caroccioli|first1=Tom|last2=Caroccioli|first2=Jerry|title=Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games|publisher=New Chapter Press|location=Highland Park, IL|isbn=978-0942257403|pages=243–253}}</ref> In 1984, he took a 13-point lead after the first day of the four-day competition and won an easy victory.<ref name=sr>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417235137/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/darrell-pace-1.html Darrell Pace]. sports-reference.com</ref>

Pace also competed in the [[1988 Summer Olympics]], finishing ninth in the individual competition and winning a silver medal in the team event along with McKinney and [[Jay Barrs]].<ref name=sr/>

[[Darrell O. Pace Park]], located in [[Hamilton, Ohio]], is a {{convert|7|acre|adj=on}} park named in his honor.

In 1974, at the US Nationals in [[Oxford, Ohio]], Pace set his first FITA record of 1291 beating John Williams' record of 1268 shot at the 1972 Olympics.  He broke that in 1975 at the Nationals with the first 1300 in history; he got 1316. In 1978, Ferrari from Italy broke that with a 1318.  Darrell then shattered that the next year in 1979 with a 1341 in Japan; that record stood for 10 years.  All in all Pace held the Total FITA world record for 14 years, raising the record a total of 71 points in 5 years.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.usarchery.org/about/olympians USA Archery]

{{Olympic Champions Archery Men Individual}}
{{Pan American Champions Archery Men Individual}}
{{Pan American Champions Archery Men Team}}

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