Megan Carter-Davies (born 1996) is a British orienteering competitor. She became sprint world champion at the 2022 World Orienteering Championships. This made her only the third British athlete to become world champion in an individual discipline, after

Yvette Hague Yvette Baker (born Yvette Hague, 1968) is Britain's most successful orienteer. At the 1999 World Orienteering Championships in Inverness she won the short distance event. Orienteering Already at the early age of 15, she won the Elite clas ...

and Jamie Stevenson. Carter-Davies was born in Aberystwyth,

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. She competes for the orienteering clubs Swansea Bay OC (United Kingdom) and Rajamäen Rykmentti (

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). Carter-Davies attended the

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

where she studied mathematics and was the captain of the orienteering club. 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. 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 Ralph Street (born 1990) is a British orienteering competitor. He was part of the British team that came second in the sprint relay at the 2022 World Orienteering Championships. His team included Megan Carter Davies, Kris Jones and Charlott ...

and

Kris Jones Kristian Jones or Kris Jones (born 3 April 1991) is a competitor in orienteering and athletics, competing for Great Britain. He also competes for Lillomarka OK in Norway, Forth Valley orienteers and Wales. Orienteering Jones has had most suc ...

. 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 Tove Alexandersson (born 7 September 1992) is a Swedish orienteer, ski orienteer, skyrunner and ski mountaineer. She has won a total of 17 gold medals at the World Orienteering Championships and 10 gold medals at the World Ski Orienteering Champ ...

's winning streak of 11 world championship victories in a row (Alexandersson finished in sixth place).

Results

World Championship results

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* 1996 births Living people British orienteers Female orienteers Foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists 21st-century British sportswomen 21st-century British people {{Orienteering-bio-stub