Amy Oliver was born on 10 July 1987 and is an archer from Great Britain.
11 Facts About Amy Oliver
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Amy Oliver was born on 10 July 1987 in Mexborough, South Yorkshire.
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Amy Oliver was first introduced to archery at age seven by her parents, who both practised the sport competitively, but it was not until ten years later that Oliver became more involved, joining an archery club and attending training sessions.
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Amy Oliver won two medals at the European Field Championships in 2007, the second international competition in which she participated.
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In 2016 Amy Oliver won the women's individual recurve title at the World Field Archery Championship in Dublin, defeating Italy's Jessica Tomasi in the final.
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Amy Oliver announced her retirement from the British national archery team in 2017.
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Amy Oliver participated in the 2010 Commonwealth Games as a member of the England women's recurve archery team.
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Amy Oliver made her Olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
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Amy Oliver had a difficult start to the Olympics after suffering technical problems in the preliminary ranking round, entering the elimination rounds of the individual event as the fifty-seventh seed, and combining with Folkard and Williamson to place Great Britain eleventh out of twelve nations for the team event.
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Three days later in the opening round of the individual event Amy Oliver delivered a surprise victory over India's Deepika Kumari, the world's number one-ranked female archer, despite shooting poorly in the match's second set.
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Amy Oliver called the win over Kumari, who entered as one of the favourites in the individual competition, as "the highlight of my career" and considered it a greater achievement than her previous medal successes.