Alexandra Longová

Alexandra Longová, a Slovak archer born on 7 February 1994, has taken part in major international events such as the Summer Olympics, the European Games, and the European Championships.

At the 2015 European Games, she lost in the second round of the women’s individual recurve to Ukraine’s Anastasia Pavlova. She trained under head coach Daniel Kraváček at the Blue Arrows range in Viničné, near Bratislava. Longová earned her spot for the 2016 Summer Olympics at the qualification event held during the 2016 European Archery Championships in Nottingham, England, where she was one of three women to qualify.

In Rio de Janeiro, she became the first archer to represent independent Slovakia at the Olympics, and only the second Slovak Olympic archer overall, following Martin Hámor, who competed for Czechoslovakia in 1992. She shared this distinction with male archer Boris Baláž, who later qualified for the men’s event in Rio. Competing only in the women’s individual recurve, she beat India’s Laxmirani Majhi 7–1 in the first round, then lost 0–6 to China’s Qi Yuhong in the second round.

For the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, she was chosen as a Young Change-Maker for her country. At the 2021 European Archery Championships in Antalya, Turkey, she received a first-round bye and then defeated Slovenia’s Ana Umer 6–5. In the 2022 European Archery Championships in Munich, she also started with a bye, beat Romania’s Beatrice Miklos 6–0 in the second round, and exited in the round of 32 after a close match against a German archer.