AMY HUNT is sprinting herself to the top of the athletics charts after putting on a scintillating display in Tokyo.
The Team GB star secured a silver medal in the Women’s 200m final at the 2025 World Athletics Championship.
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And it was a result that reduced Hunt to tears with her podium finish being so unexpected.
SunSport can bring fans up to speed on the British sprinter’s background.
Who is Amy Hunt?
Born on May 15, 2002, Amy Hunt is a British sprinting sensation who was raised in Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Hunt rose to prominence when she set a new world record of 22.24 seconds in the Under-18 women’s 200m race in Mannheim, Berlin during the summer of 2019.
The talented Brit then went on to win gold medals in both the 200m and 4x100m at the European Under-20 Championships.
But then sadly, her transition into senior athletics was disrupted by COVID-19 before a serious leg injury in 2022 put her out of action for several months.
However, Hunt returned to the track late in 2022 and by 2024, the super sprinter found herself securing a bronze medal at the 2024 Diamond League in Stockholm.
She then went on to picking up her first title as part of GB women’s 4x100m team that took gold at the European Championships in Rome before finishing second in the 100m at the 2024 British Ahtletics Championships in Manchester.
All of the above helped Hunt deservedly earn a spot for Team GB at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and her spectacular leg saw the Brits win a second medal in the 4x100m relay.
Now fast forward a year later, Hunt stunned the world by coming second in the 200m women’s final at the World Athletics Championships.
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What did Amy Hunt study at Cambridge University?
In 2020, Hunt started an undergraduate degree at Cambridge University.
She went on to graduate with a degree in English in 2023, where she was a Corpus Christi Alumna.
Hunt spoke about graduating from Cambridge, where she said: “I chose to go to Cambridge to get a degree, in part for myself to look back and be proud of, but also in part to show other young sportspeople, other young girls, you don’t need to give up education.
“You can be an academic bad**s and a track goddess.”
This delayed Hunt’s sprinting training as it only allowed her to start practicing in early June 2023.
However, she came fifth 5th in the 100m final at the British Championships and was part of the winning U23 British 4x100m relay squad in Espoo, Finland.
Amy Hunt on her 2025 World Athletics Championship success
Hunt gave a touching and uplifting interview to BBC Sport following the race where she labelled her event as ‘sexy and aggressive.’
She said: “I’ve not stopped smiling or crying.
“As soon as I saw my mum I just burst into tears.
“I am so proud of myself, moments before the race I just thought about my grandad. I knew he was watching over me, I knew he was gonna guide me.”
