Megan Havers
{{Short description|British archer (born 2007)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Megan Havers
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|2007|12|2}}{{cite web|title=Megan Havers|website=Eurosport|accessdate=23 July 2024|url= https://www.eurosport.com/olympics/athletes/profile/havers-megan-1560990/}}
| birth_place = Leicester, United Kingdom
| country = United Kingdom
| sport = Archery
| event = Recurve
}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://leicestertimes.com/leicester-news/leicester-archer-megan-havers-helps-team-secure-full-quota-of-spots-for-paris-olympic-games/45887/|website=Leicester Times|accessdate=23 July 2024|title= Leicester archer Megan Havers helps team secure full quota of spots for Paris Olympic Games|date=19 June 2024}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.southcharnwood.leics.sch.uk/News/OUR-AWESOME-OLYMPIAN/|title= OUR AWESOME OLYMPIAN|website=southcharmwood.leics.sch|accessdate=23 July 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyn6n1e623o.amp|website=BBC News|accessdate=22 August 2024|title= Team GB archer, 16, celebrates GCSE results|first=Ellis|last=Maddison|date=22 August 2024}}
Career
She won a bronze medal in the mixed team category at the 2023 European Youth Cup in Switzerland.{{cite web|title=Megan Havers|accessdate=23 July 2024|url= https://archerygb.org/performance/national-squads/megan-havers|website=Archery GB}}
Alongside Bryony Pitman and Penny Healey, she won a silver team medal at the European Grand Prix in June 2024.{{cite web|url= https://archerygb.org/news/gb-recurves-win-two-european-grand-prix-medals| accessdate=23 July 2024|date=June 11, 2024|title=GB recurves win two European Grand prix medals |website=Archery GB}} 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 Antalya, Turkey.{{cite web|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/archery/articles/c722yn60e4yo|website=BBC Sport|date=7 June 2024|title= GB secure full quota of six archers at Paris 2024|accessdate=23 July 2024}}
In July 2024, Havers was named in the British team for the 2024 Paris Olympics.{{cite web|url= https://archerygb.org/news/paris-2024-team-gb-olympic-archery-squad-announced|website=Archery GB|title= Paris 2024: Team GB Olympic archery squad announced |date=July 1, 2024|accessdate=23 July 2024}}{{cite web|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/archery/articles/cv2gx9vy1v4o|title= Team GB selects six archers for Paris Olympics|date=1 July 2024|accessdate=23 July 2024|website=BBC Sport}} At the age of 16, she was the youngest archer selected for the Olympic Games.{{cite web|url= https://www.worldarchery.sport/news/201722/havers-youngest-all-archers-compete-paris-16|website=World Archery|accessdate=23 July 2024|title= Havers the youngest of all archers to compete in Paris, at 16|date=22 July 2024|first=Iwan|last=Blakeway}} 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 and was Britain’s best performer in the women’s individual competition.{{Cite web |date=2024-08-03 |title=Megan Havers proud of performance on Olympic debut |url=https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/megan-havers-proud-of-performance-on-olympic-debut-142035137.html |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=Yahoo Sports |language=en-GB}} In the team event, alongside teammates Penny Healey and Bryony Pitman, they were knocked out by Germany in the round of 16.{{Cite web |date=2024-07-28 |title=Germany were too good for Team GB in the women's archery admits Penny Healey |url=https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/germany-were-too-good-for-team-gb-in-the-womens-archery-admits-penny-healey-141329459.html |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=Yahoo Sports |language=en-GB}}
She joked about it saying that taking her English GCSE was tougher.{{cite web|url= https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/megan-havers-womens-archery-team-gb-south-korea-paris-2024-b2585841.html|website=Independent.co.uk|accessdate=26 July 2024|first=Tom|title= 'My English GCSE was harder': Team GB archer Megan Havers fires first shot as South Korea target world records|last=Hale|date=25 July 2024}}
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Category:Sportspeople from Leicester
Category:British female archers
Category:Olympic archers for Great Britain
Category:Archers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Category:21st-century British sportswomen
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