2025 Tokyo Preview #2: Amy Hunt

Amy Hunt excited about Tokyo

The past year has seen Amy Hunt make significant progress. At the Paris Olympics, she was selected only for the 4X100 relay. She did not make the team for the individual 100 m or 200 m. This year, she has run new PRs at 60,100, and 200 and reached the final of the World Indoors 60 as well as picking up a World Relays gold medal. She has also put together a series of good Diamond League performances – races she would have struggled to get into last year.

In Tokyo, she will run all three races.  As she said, “I’m going to be very busy in Tokyo with only a couple of days off, but I’m 23, so why not do as many things as possible? It’s the first chance to really try the double and then get two or three more years to get used to it before LA”.

After university, Amy joined Marco Airale’s training group in Padua, northern Italy.  At the time, the group included Darryl Neita, Jeremiah Azu, and Adam Gemili, but when the other Brits all left after the 2024 season, Amy stayed on and loves it there: “It never crossed my mind [to leave when the others did]. It was never something I even considered. I think ever since I joined the group, I’ve gone from strength to strength. I  live my dream life in so many ways. I moved to Italy at 21. That’s so cool. Like, who gets to do that? I also love the group environment and the people, as well as the heat and training. The warmth is so good. I’ve just loved to train here and I think it’s made me into such a better athlete and a better person”.

Marco and I have been working together for two years now, and our relationship has grown and flourished to the point where we can communicate so clearly. And we understand each other’s needs well, and he really challenges me in training sessions. When I hear them just before I do them, it seems so overwhelming. But I know that he’s not going to challenge me to do anything he knows I can’t do. Anything he gives me in the form of a session, I’m going to be capable of. It gives me confidence, knowing that he has that belief in me. But he also challenges me even during the session. Like asking, ‘how did that feel? And then? Why did you feel that? Why do you think that happened? What can we do to fix it?’ He…