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Born | 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]