Amy Hunt completes unprecedented four-gold European Championships

Amy Hunt completed an unprecedented four-gold campaign at the European Athletics Championships when Great Britain won Sunday’s mixed 4x100m relay. BBC Sport reported that the 24-year-old achieved the historic haul over seven days on home soil, ending a meet in which she had made clear that four titles were her target.

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Hunt established herself at Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium by winning the women’s 100m on the opening night. She then completed the individual sprint double with victory in the 200m before adding to her total in the relays. The mixed 4x100m success delivered the fourth gold and completed a championship that moved her from leading British sprinter to the dominant athlete of the week.

The achievement followed a first major breakthrough that came when Hunt was 17. Competing at a meet in Germany, she ran 22.42 seconds for 200m, setting an under-18 world record and also improving the British under-20 mark. It took another six years for Hunt to better that teenage performance as her progress through the senior ranks was interrupted by injury and the pandemic.

Her most serious setback arrived at an indoor meeting in Birmingham in 2022, where she fully ruptured a tendon in her quadriceps. Surgery followed, and Hunt watched that year’s Commonwealth Games on crutches while going through rehabilitation. She continued the final year of her English Literature degree at Cambridge rather than delaying her exams, a decision that kept the following year clear of an academic clash with the Olympics.

Hunt later won Olympic silver in the 4x100m relay and took her first individual global medal with world 200m silver in Tokyo in 2025. That run lowered her personal best to 22.08. During the current season she also broke 11 seconds for 100m for the first time, while reducing her indoor 60m best to 7.04, the eighth-fastest performance in the world this year.

The European sweep now provides the platform for Hunt’s stated goal of pursuing the sprint titles at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. She stands 14th on this year’s global 200m list and 25th over 100m, with Dina Asher-Smith’s British records of 21.88 and 10.83 still the national standards. Beyond September’s inaugural World Ultimate Championships, Hunt’s next opportunity for global medals will come at the World Championships in Beijing next year.