Amy Hunt

Amy Hunt (born 15 May 2002) is a British sprinter who won double gold at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships in both the 200 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay. She holds the world record for the Women's Under-18 200 metres, set in June 2019 with a time of 22.42s.

Athletics career

Early career

In June 2019, Hunt rose to prominence when she ran in a 200 m junior race in Mannheim, Germany, in what was her fifth competitive race outdoors at that distance. Her time of 22.42s was a new world record for Under-18 women.

In the summer of 2019, she won gold medals in both the 200 m and at the European Under-20 Championships. Her transition into senior athletics was disrupted by COVID-19, and then a serious leg injury in early 2022. Following surgery, she returned to the track in late 2022 for a single 200 m race.

University studies and graduation saw Amy only start training fully in early June 2023, she came 5th in the 100 m final at the British Championships and was part of the winning U23 British relay squad in Espoo, Finland at the U23 European Championships. Finally starting to find some form, and a switch to Coach Marco Airale, saw Amy race to 11.13 s over 100 m at the London Community Track in August 2023, to go ninth all time over 100 m in the UK.

2024: Olympic Games debut

She finished third in the 200 metres at the 2024 Diamond League event in Stockholm in June 2024.

Hunt won her first senior title as part of the Great Britain women's team that took gold at the European Championships in Rome on 12 June 2024. Later that month, she finished second in the 100 metres at the 2024 British Athletics Championships in Manchester.

Hunt was selected in the Great Britain 4 × 100 metres relay squad for the 2024 Summer Olympics and helped the team win a silver medal.

2025: International breakthrough

She set a new 60 metres personal best of 7.18 seconds in the semi-final at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, on 22 February 2025, prior to finishing in fourth place overall after appearing to slip out of the blocks in the final.
At the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Hunt ran a new personal best of 7.09 seconds in the 60 metres semi-final, before placing sixth in the final in a time of 7.10 seconds. She was subsequently selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, where she ran 7.11 seconds to finish fifth in the 60 metres final.

Hunt ran 23.06 seconds to finish fifth in the 200 metres at the 2025 Xiamen Diamond League event in China, in April 2025. She finished fourth in the 200 metres at the 2025 Shanghai Diamond League event in China on 3 May 2025, in a new seasons best time of 22.86 seconds. Hunt was a member of the Great Britain team which won gold in the women's 4x100 metres at the World Athletics Relays Championship on 11 May 2025. On 16 May, she lowered her personal best to 11.03 seconds in the 100 metres race at the 2025 Doha Diamond League to move to fourth on the UK all-time list. In June 2025, she finished second over 200 metres at the 2025 Golden Gala in Rome and the 2025 Meeting de Paris, both part of the 2025 Diamond League.

International competitions

Nominations

She was named by the British Athletics Writers' Association as the "young female athlete of 2019".

In January 2020, Hunt was listed by British Vogue as one of their "Faces Set To Define The Decade Ahead".

Personal life

In 2020, she started an undergraduate degree at Cambridge University. She graduated with a degree in English in 2023 from Cambridge University where she was a Corpus Christi alumna.

References

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Amy Hunt
at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics

Video of Hunt running World Record 22.42s at Mannheim meeting

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2002 births
Living people
British female sprinters
English female sprinters
Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
People educated at Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School
Sportspeople from Newark-on-Trent
21st-century English sportswomen