Full name Amy Lee Oliver Name Amy Oliver Nationality British Role Athlete | Sport Archery Height 1.73 m Coached by Lloyd Brown Weight 62 kg | |
 | ||
Born 10 July 1987 (age 36) ( 1987-07-10 ) Mexborough, South Yorkshire, England Country United Kingdom
England Club Dearne Valley Archery Club | ||
Great britain s amy oliver coming back from injury
Amy Lee Oliver (born 10 July 1987) is an athlete from Great Britain who competes in archery. She is a former European champion, and competed at the 2010 Commonwealth Games for England where she won a silver medal in the team event. She also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Contents
Amy oliver
Early life
Both of Amy's parents were archers and introduced her to the sport in 1993 at the age of seven. She did not enjoy the sport, and did not try again until the age of seventeen.
Career
She joined an archery club in 2004, and in 2007 competed in her first international competition. She was part of the silver medal winning team at the 2007 European Field Championships, and qualified for the individual finals. She wore her silver medal during the final to encourage herself, and went on to take the gold medal. It was the first European gold achieved by a female British archer for more than 20 years.
Oliver did not place in the top three at the 2010 World Field Championships in Hungary. She competed at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi for the English team. Acting as the final archer for the British women's team, she was unable to keep up her earlier scoring and the Indian team won the gold medal by 1 point over the British. Afterwards she criticised the noise of the crowd during the closing moments, saying "I was nervous, the crowd was not good. They were pretty loud and it was not good sportsmanship for archery", and FITA (the governing body for archery worldwide) released a statement saying that they expect "the public to be quiet when the archers draw their bow up until the arrow has been shot".
She is a member of Dearne Valley Archery Club, and is managed by Lloyd Brown. She was chosen alongside Naomi Folkard and Alison Williamson for the British team at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Oliver's Olympic debut resulted in a first round win against the world number one Deepika Kumari of India.
