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A 16-year-old Olympian who was the youngest archer on the Paris 2024 video games is celebrating passing her GCSEs regardless of “mockingly” failing PE.
Megan Havers, from Leicester, obtained her outcomes on Thursday, simply weeks after getting via to the final 16 of the ladies’s particular person competitors on the Olympics.
The teenager juggled coaching, competitions overseas and revision forward of her summer season of exams and sport.
She stated she felt extra nervous about taking her GCSEs than competing in entrance of hundreds in Paris.
Havers stated she couldn’t have tackled each her coaching and revision with out the assist of the employees at South Charnwood High School.
“I handed every thing aside from PE, mockingly,” she stated.
“It was all the time going to be troublesome.
“But my faculty allowed me to coach and compete overseas and so they gave me the entire crucial assets to check overseas as effectively.”
The Olympian is now planning use her eight GCSEs to go to Loughborough College to finish an elite athletes course, which can enable her to check on-line whereas coaching on the Performance Archery Centre in Shropshire.
Her dad, Steve Havers, stated his yr watching his daughter compete on the Olympics and full her exams had been a “rollercoaster”.
“She’s completely smashed it,” he stated.
“There aren’t phrases to explain it – the emotional rollercoaster that we have all been on, as a result of it is not simply Megan, its an entire staff effort.
“Proud would not start to explain it.
“I’m simply blown away by her full dedication to her revision and the Olympics.”
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