Penny Healey (born 7 March 2005) 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.

Career

She won two gold medals at the

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: one in the women's recurve individual event and a second in the women's recurve team event. In the 2023 season, Healey became the number one women's recurve archer in the world following an individual gold medal at Stage 1 of the 2023

Archery World Cup 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 (from 2010, four archers during 2006–09) advance to an additional stage to ...

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, and her success at the

. She was a nominee for

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2023. She qualified to represent Great Britain at the

2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

. In the individual she suffered a first round defeat, being knocked out by

Jeon Hun-young Jeon Hun-young (; born 29 May 1994) is a South Korean archer. She qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics: in the women's team event, she, Lim Si-hyeon, and Nam Su-hyeon set the Olympic record in the ranking round and subsequently won the gold ...

. In the team event, alongside teammates

Megan Havers Megan Havers (born 2 December 2007) is a British archer competing in women's recurve events. She competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Early life From Leicester, England, she tried archery for the first time on a family holiday. She attended So ...

and

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 ...

, they were knocked out by Germany in the round of 16.

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* British female archers 2005 births Living people European Games gold medalists for Great Britain European Games medalists in archery 21st-century British sportswomen Archers at the 2023 European Games Archers at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for Great Britain {{UK-archery-bio-stub