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| Born | 7 March 2005 Telford, United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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]
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 has 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]
The Archery World Cup is a competition organized by World Archery, where the archers compete in four stages in four countries and the best eight archers of each category advance to an additional stage to contest the Archery World Cup Final. Started in 2006, this form of competition was introduced following the success of the 2003 World Archery Championships in New York and the 2004 Summer Olympics with the intent of making the sport more popular and attractive to spectators, with the matches being held in 'spectacular' locations and the final matches being broadcast online. It has received plaudits for its innovative approach to the sport, raising its profile and reach.
Deepika Kumari is an Indian professional archer. She won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the women's individual recurve event. She also won a gold there in the women's team recurve event with Dola Banerjee and Bombayala Devi. She won individual gold in two of the three stages of the World Cup—one in Guatemala and another in Paris. In the process she also reclaimed the number one ranking after nine years at the Paris World Cup. Deepika won individual gold medals at the Archery World Cup Stage 1. She defeated Mexico by 5–1 in the final to win the gold in Paris.
Kusuma Wardhani was an Indonesian archer and an Olympic silver medallist. Together with Nurfitriyana Saiman and Lilies Handayani she won the women's team silver medal at the 1988 Olympics, bringing the first ever Olympic medal to Indonesia. In the 1980s, Wardhani won multiple medals in individual recurve events at the SEA Games. After retiring from competitions she headed the Education, Youth and Sports Office of Bali.
Kim Woo-jin is a South Korean archer specializing in recurve archery. He first held the world number one ranking in 2011. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he set a world record in men's individual recurve archery as well as won the gold medal as a member of the South Korean men's archery team. During the 2024 Summer Olympics, he earned an Olympic gold medal in the men's individual event after a tiebreaker with American archer Brady Ellison. This victory marked Kim's fifth gold medal overall and his third consecutive Olympics in which he won a gold medal. He is a three-time world champion in the men's individual recurve event at the World Archery Championships.
Mete Gazoz is a Turkish recurve archer. He won the gold medal in the men's individual event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. He also represented Turkey at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the 2023 World Archery Championships held in Berlin, Mete Gazoz emerged victorious, claiming the prestigious Individual title. In an intense final, he triumphed over the skilled Canadian archer Eric Peters, securing his place as the first Turkish archer to achieve the esteemed recurve gold medal in a World Championship.
Park Young-sook, also known as Sally Park, is a South Korean former archer, archery judge and current coach.
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Bryony Michaela Pitman is a British archer competing in women's recurve events. She won the gold medal in the women's recurve team event at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus. Earlier in 2019, she won the bronze medal in the women's team recurve event at the World Archery Championships held in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
An San is a South Korean archer competing in women's recurve events. She won three gold medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in the women's team, mixed team and individual events, becoming the first archer in Olympic history to do so at a single Games. An also set a new Olympic Record scoring 680 points at the Women's Individual Archery's Ranking Round. The previous record of 673 points was set by Ukrainian Lina Herasymenko at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Marie Horáčková is a Czech archer. She competed in the women's individual event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Kim Je-deok is a South Korean archer. He is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, winning in the mixed team and men's team events at the 2020 Summer Olympics as well as the men's team events at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He was the youngest archer competing at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
James Woodgate is a British archer competing in men's recurve events. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Harvinder Singh is an Indian paralympic archer. He is a double Paralympic medalist having won the gold at 2024 Paris and the bronze at 2020 Tokyo in the men's singles recurve archery event. His medals were the first Paralympic gold and bronze archery medals for India.
Bhajan Kaur is an Indian archer from Haryana. She was selected for the Indian Archery team for the recurve events at the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China. Along with Ankita Bhakat and Simranjeet Kaur, she won the Women's team recurve event bronze medal for India. The Indian trio defeated the Vietnamese team 6–2 in the bronze-medal play-off. On 16 June 2024, she won a gold in the final Olympic qualifier at Anatalya, Turkey. She represented India at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games at Paris.
Dhiraj Bommadevara is an Indian recurve archer. He is ranked 12th in the world. He finished fourth in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Bommadevara is a gold, silver, and multiple bronze medalist at the World Cup. He also won a silver medal at the Asian Games and a gold medal at the World Youth Championships.
Erin Mickelberry is an American archer. She won a gold medal at the 2019 Pan American Games, in Women's team recurve, and competed in Individual Recurve.
Quinty Roeffen is a Dutch recurve archer. Roeffen is the 2024 European Archery Junior Champion and won a gold medal at the 2024 Junior Indoor World Series. She is a member of the Dutch women's recurve team that won a silver medal at the 2024 European Archery Championships and qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Megan Havers is a British archer competing in women's recurve events. She competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Lim Si-hyeon is a South Korean archer. She won three gold medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the individual, team and mixed team events. By virtue of winning all three gold medals in the same Olympic Games, Lim became the second person to do so, matching her compatriot, An San, at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She also set the world & Olympic records in the preliminary round of the women's individual event, scoring 694 out of a maximum of 720, thereby surpassing fellow South Korean Kang Chae-young's 692 and An San's 680, respectively.
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