Penny Healey
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| Born | 7 March 2005 Telford, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Archery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Recurve | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest world ranking | 1st (2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Penny Healey (born 7 March 2005)[1] is a British archer competing in women's recurve events.[2][3]
Career
[edit | edit source]She won two gold medals at the 2023 European Games in Kraków, Poland: one in the women's recurve individual event and a second in the women's recurve team event.[4][5][6]
In the 2023 season, Healey became the number one women's recurve archer in the world[7] following an individual gold medal at Stage 1 of the 2023 Archery World Cup in Antalya,[8] and her success at the 2023 European Games.[9] She was a nominee for BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2023.[10][11][12][13]
She qualified to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[14] In the individual she suffered a first round defeat, being knocked out by Jeon Hun-young.[15] In the team event, alongside teammates Megan Havers and Bryony Pitman, they were knocked out by Germany in the round of 16.[16]
References
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External links
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- British female archers
- 2005 births
- Living people
- European Games gold medalists for Great Britain
- European Games medalists in archery
- 21st-century British sportswomen
- Archers at the 2023 European Games
- Archers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic archers for Great Britain
- Medalists at the 2023 European Games
- British archery biography stubs