Hollie Arnold

Hollie Arnold
MBE

Hollie Arnold with her 2016 Paralympic gold medal
Personal information
Birth name	Hollie Beth Arnold[1]
Born	(1994-06-26) 26 June 1994 (age 30) Holton-le-Clay, Lincolnshire, England
Sport
Country	Great Britain  Wales
Sport	Para-athletics
Disability class	F46
Event	Javelin
Club	Blackheath and Bromley AC
Coached by	Scott Knighton
Achievements and titles
Paralympic finals	2008, 2012, 2016, 2020
Highest world ranking	1st
Personal best	Javelin 44.73m[2]
Medal record Women's para-athletics Representing  Great Britain Paralympic Games 2016 Rio Javelin throw – F46 2020 Tokyo Javelin throw – F46 2024 Paris Javelin throw – F46 World Championships 2013 Lyon Javelin throw – F46 2015 Doha Javelin throw – F46 2017 London Javelin throw – F46 2019 Dubai Javelin throw – F46 2023 Paris Javelin throw – F46 2024 Kobe Javelin throw – F46 2011 Christchurch Javelin throw – F46 European Championships 2018 Berlin Javelin throw – F46 2012 Stadskanaal Javelin throw – F46 Representing  Wales Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast Javelin throw – F46

Hollie Beth Arnold, MBE (born 26 June 1994) is a British parasport athlete competing in category F46 javelin. Although born in Grimsby, she now lives and trains in Loughborough. She represents Wales in the Commonwealth Games.

Arnold was the youngest ever field athlete to ever compete in the Paralympics, at the age of 14 at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, under the guidance of Olympic Javelin Thrower Shelley Holroyd, throwing a personal best. She also threw a personal best in 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. She took the gold medal in the F46 javelin in the 2016 Rio Paralympics, also throwing a new world record at the same time. In 2021, at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, she took the bronze medal in the same event.

In 2018, she became the first ever Para Javelin thrower in history to hold all four major titles in the same Paralympic 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. In 2019 Arnold lost her World Record to New Zealand F46 Para Javelin Thrower Holly Robinson with the first 45m+ throw in history. She also holds four consecutive world titles: 2013 Lyon, 2015 Doha, 2017 London, and 2019 Dubai.^[2]