Megan Carter Davies at the 2022 World Orienteering Championships
Personal information
Nationality
British
Born
1996 (age 27–28) Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Sport
Sport
Orienteering
Medal record
Women's orienteering
Representing United Kingdom
World Championships
2022 Triangle Region
Sprint
2022 Triangle Region
Knock-out Sprint
2022 Triangle Region
Sprint Relay
World University Championships
2016 Miskolc
Sprint Relay[1]
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 first tried orienteering at the age of eight, joining Mid-Wales Orienteering club. She has been a member of the Welsh orienteering squad.[5]
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).[6]
^ ab"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.
^"Athletics Weekly- Megan Carter-Davies". athleticsweekly.com. 13 August 2019. 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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