BIRMINGHAM (United Kingdom) — Home favourite Amy Hunt took a successful first step in the women’s 100m to her lofty ambition of leaving the European championships with four golds.
Hunt held off Poland’s Ewa Swoboda to win the event in 11.00 seconds.
The 24-year-old will now turn her attention to the 200m, heats and semi-finals of which are on Wednesday, with the final a day later.
Then comes the 4x100m relay and the mixed sprint relay. “I really want to win it all and I’m so happy now I’ve got one out of four done,” said Hunt according to AFP.
The mixed relay, she said, “gives us another opportunity and that should be really exciting to bring together some of the biggest names and British sprinting onto one team together will be really iconic”.
Still the world record holder for the women’s under-18 200m, 22.42sec set in June 2019, Hunt is an English graduate from Cambridge University and only started training full time after graduating in 2023.
She was part of the British team that won European 4x100m relay gold in Rome in 2024, going on to claim Olympic silver in the relay in Paris later that year and then winning silver in the 200m at the Tokyo world championships a year later — her first senior individual global medal.
