Amy Hunt
Amy Hunt is the European Champion at 100m. Add that to her silver medal within the Tokyo worlds at 200m, and she or he has a powerful declare to being the quickest girl in Europe. There’s much more to Amy than velocity.
After profitable in Birmingham this week, Amy commented on how she had received English Colleges within the Birmingham stadium. (English Colleges is the Excessive College nationwide champs however has the aura of American NCAA) As a youngster, Amy was an exceptional expertise, then accidents took their toll.
Then, on the current London Diamond League, the press convention featured Amy and Gabby Thomas; Geoff Wightman described it as essentially the most clever presser in historical past! Gabby is a Harvard graduate, and Amy is from Cambridge.
Cambridge is an old school college in an previous metropolis. College students within the UK usually shouldn’t have automobiles, and in any case there’s little or no metropolis middle parking in Cambridge and none at her faculty. Keep in mind too that there aren’t any athletic scholarships within the UK. She was an English Literature pupil and what she did in her spare time – run on the elite stage – was of no curiosity to the college. The college system lower her no slack. There was no elite teaching or coaching group in Cambridge so Amy skilled at Loughborough together with her dad selecting her up in Cambridge, driving her to Loughborough and again – a spherical journey of round 300 miles.
Aged 16, Amy ran 11.56 for the 100m. Aged 22, her PR was simply 11.12. She was at risk of being a teenage sensation who by no means developed as a senior. After graduating Amy took an enormous determination to relocate to Padua in Northern Italy to affix a gaggle together with a number of British athletes working with coach Marco Airale. Athletes like Darryl Neita and Jeremiah Azu subsequently left the Italian group, however Imani Lansiquot joined. Given her diploma, Amy has a deep curiosity within the Renaissance and spends her days off in Italian museums.
Whereas some athletes reply questions as if studying a press release ready by their lawyer, Amy is open and fascinating. I ran into her on a avenue in Glasgow final week, and she or he stopped to speak. I used to be not within the least stunned. She is a beautiful girl and an excellent athlete. Final yr I organized an interview together with her. She had promised me 20 minutes. After 35 minutes, I requested if she was OK for time. She replied that she was having fun with our chat.
It took her a number of years to affix the ten sec for 100m membership however now anticipate to see her PR drop steadily.
