Nicola Jane "Nicky" Hunt (born 29 January 1985 in Stevenage) is a British

archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...

. She competes in

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archery and in 2010 reached 1st position in the FITA world rankings. In partnership with

Nichola Simpson Nichola Simpson (born 10 October 1956) is an athlete from Oxford, Great Britain. She competes in compound archery, and has reached a career high of 4th in the FITA world rankings (23 August 2008). Simpson is a member of Oxford Archers, and is ...

and

Danielle Brown Danielle Brown MBE (born 10 April 1988) is a British competitive archer and award winning children's author. She has competed in the Paralympic Games winning gold medals in Beijing and London and has also won medals shooting in the able bodi ...

she helped the English team win the women's compound team event at the

2010 Commonwealth Games The 2010 Commonwealth Games (Hindi: 2010 राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल), officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Delhi, India, ...

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then added the individual gold medal a day later. She has won rounds of the

FITA Archery World Cup The Archery World Cup is a competition, started in 2006, organized by the World Archery Federation, where the archers compete in four stages in four countries and the best eight archers of each category (from 2010, four archers during 2006-09) ad ...

in 2009 ( Porec) and 2010 (

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).http://www.archery.org/results/archer_update.asp?id=4348&action=&onyuz= Hunt is a member of Deben Archery Club.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunt, Nicky British female archers 1985 births Living people Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England People from Stevenage People educated at Fearnhill School Archers at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Great Britain Commonwealth Games medallists in archery Archers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games 20th-century British women 21st-century British women