![]() Megan Carter Davies at the 2022 World Orienteering Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 1996 (age 27–28) Aberystwyth, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Orienteering | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Megan Carter-Davies (born 1996) is a British orienteering competitor. [2] She became sprint world champion at the 2022 World Orienteering Championships. [3] This made her only the third British athlete to become world champion in an individual discipline, after Yvette Hague and Jamie Stevenson.
Carter-Davies was born in Aberystwyth, United Kingdom. She competes for the orienteering clubs Swansea Bay OC (United Kingdom) and Rajamäen Rykmentti (Finland). [4] Carter-Davies attended the University of Bristol where she studied mathematics and was the captain of the orienteering club. [1]
Carter-Davies first tried orienteering at the age of eight, joining Mid-Wales Orienteering club. She has been a member of the Welsh orienteering squad. [5]
Carter-Davies won her first medals at the World Orienteering Championships in 2022, first achieving a silver medal in the mixed sprint relay with Charlotte Ward, Ralph Street and Kris Jones. She followed this up with a silver medal in the knock-out sprint, and finally a gold medal in the sprint final, breaking Tove Alexandersson's winning streak of 11 world championship victories in a row (Alexandersson finished in sixth place). [6]
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Long | Middle | Sprint | Relay | Sprint Relay | Knock Out Sprint | |
2017 | — | — | 28 | 7 | — | — |
2018 | — | 20 | 28 | DSQ | 7 | — |
2019 | — | 21 | — | 9 | — | — |
2021 | 6 | 26 | — | 7 | 6 | — |
2022 | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | 2 |
2023 | 7 | 12 | — | 8 | — | — |
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