Megan Havers (born 2 December 2007) is a British

archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern ...

competing in women's recurve events. She competed in the

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Early life

From

Leicester, England Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area, and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest city in the East Midlands with a popula ...

, she tried archery for the first time on a family holiday. She attended South Charnwood High School in Markfield, England. She received her GCSE results on 22 August 2024 a couple of weeks after competing at the Olympic Games and passed all her exams, apart from PE.

Career

She won a bronze medal in the mixed team category at the 2023 European Youth Cup in

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. Alongside

Bryony Pitman Bryony Michaela Pitman (born 13 March 1997) 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 bron ...

and Penny Healey, she won a silver team medal at the European Grand Prix in June 2024. In the same month, the trio qualified for the team event at the 2024 Olympic Games by finishing third at the final qualifying event in

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. In July 2024, Havers was named in the British team for the

. At the age of 16, she was the youngest archer selected for the Olympic Games. She also had the distinction of being the first to compete at the games, firing the first arrow in the women’s ranking round on 24 July 2024. She made it to the round of 16, before being knocked out by

Lim Si-hyeon Lim Si-hyeon (; born 13 June 2003) 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 ...

and was Britain’s best performer in the women’s individual competition. In the team event, alongside teammates Penny Healey and

, they were knocked out by Germany in the round of 16. She joked about it saying that taking her English

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was tougher.

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* Living people 2007 births Sportspeople from Leicester British female archers Olympic archers for Great Britain Archers at the 2024 Summer Olympics 21st-century British sportswomen {{UK-archery-bio-stub