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| birth_date = {{birth year and age |1996}} |
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| birth_place = [[Aberystwyth]], United Kingdom |
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| Born | 1996 (age 28–29) Aberystwyth, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Megan Carter-Davies (born 1996) is a British orienteering competitor.[2] She became sprint world champion at the 2022 World Orienteering Championships.[3] This made her only the third British athlete to become world champion in an individual discipline, after Yvette Hague and Jamie Stevenson.
Carter-Davies was born in Aberystwyth, United Kingdom. She competes for the orienteering clubs Swansea Bay OC (United Kingdom) and Rajamäen Rykmentti (Finland).[4] Carter-Davies attended the University of Bristol where she studied mathematics and was the captain of the orienteering club.[1] Carter-Davies speaks fluent Finnish.[5]
Carter-Davies first tried orienteering at the age of eight, joining Mid-Wales Orienteering club. She has been a member of the Welsh orienteering squad.[6]
Carter-Davies won her first medals at the World Orienteering Championships in 2022, first achieving a silver medal in the mixed sprint relay with Charlotte Ward, Ralph Street and Kris Jones. She followed this up with a silver medal in the knock-out sprint, and finally a gold medal in the sprint final, breaking Tove Alexandersson's winning streak of 11 world championship victories in a row (Alexandersson finished in sixth place).[7]
References
- ^ a b "University of Bristol Health and Exercise". bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
- ^ "IOF Eventor - Megan Carter Davies". eventor.orienteering.org. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
- ^ "Sprint success for Great Britain and Norway | International Orienteering Federation". orienteering.sport. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
- ^ "Megan Carter-Davies | On The Red Line". www.ontheredline.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
- ^ "yle.fi- Megan Carter-Davies". yle.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2 July 2022.
- ^ "Athletics Weekly- Megan Carter-Davies". athleticsweekly.com. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
- ^ Berkeley, Geoff (30 June 2022). "Carter Davies wins women's orienteering sprint title as Alexandersson falters". www.insidethegames.biz. Inside the Games. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
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