| Megan Carter-Davies | |
| Birth Place: | Aberystwyth, United Kingdom |
| Nationality: | British |
| Sport: | Orienteering |
Megan Carter-Davies (born 1996) is a British orienteering competitor.[1] She became sprint world champion at the 2022 World Orienteering Championships.[2] This made her only the third British athlete to become world champion in an individual discipline, after Yvette Hague and Jamie Stevenson.
Carter-Davies was born in Aberystwyth, United Kingdom. She competes for the orienteering clubs Swansea Bay OC (United Kingdom) and Rajamäen Rykmentti (Finland).[3] Carter-Davies attended the University of Bristol where she studied mathematics and was the captain of the orienteering club.[4]
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.[5]
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 and Kris Jones. 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's winning streak of 11 world championship victories in a row (Alexandersson finished in sixth place).[6]
| Year | |||||||||
| Long | Middle | Sprint | Relay | Sprint Relay | Knock Out Sprint | ||||
| — | — | 28 | 7 | — | |||||
| — | 20 | 28 | 7 | ||||||
| — | 21 | 9 | |||||||
| 6 | 26 | — | 7 | 6 | |||||
| bgcolor=gold | 1 | bgcolor=silver | 2 | bgcolor=silver | 2 | ||||
| 7 | 12 | 8 |