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Born | Telford, United Kingdom | 7 March 2005|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Archery | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Recurve | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Highest world ranking | 1st (2023) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 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]
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