Hollie Arnold MBE

Headline Speaker | Sunday 06 March 2022

Hollie is a F46 Paralympic Javelin Gold & Bronze medalist, Common-wealth Champion and European Champion and the current 4 times consecutive World Champion.

2018 saw her became the first ever Javelin thrower in history to hold all four major titles in the same Paralympic/Olympic 4-year cycle: Rio Paralympics and world record 2016, London World Championships and world record 2017, Berlin European Championships and course record 2018 and Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and world record 2018.

• At the age of 14, and the youngest member of the team,  Hollie was selected to represent TeamGB at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic.
• 2013 saw her win the IPC Athletics World Championships with a winning throw of 37.45m, a Personal Best.
• She went on to retain the IPC Athletics World Championships title in 2015, with a Championship Record throw of 40.53m, and retained the title again in 2017.
• She won Gold at the 2016 Rio Paralympics with a World Record throw of 43.01m.
• Improving on her own World Record at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia, she claimed Gold with a throw of 44.43m.
• November 2019 saw Hollie win Gold for the fourth consecutive time at the IPC Athletics World Championship, with another World Championship Record throw of 44.73m.
• Hollie was a contestant in 2020 on ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’ filmed in Wales
• At this year’s re-scheduled Paralympics in Tokyo Hollie won Bronze
• She’s now back in training preparing for next year’s World Championship and the 2023 Paris Paralympic Games.