Phil Healy represented Ireland in athletics at two Olympic Games, making history at both. At Tokyo 2020 she became the first Irish woman to compete in three track events at the same Olympics, lining up in the 200 metres, 400 metres and mixed 4×400 metres relay – the last of which reached the Olympic final, the first Irish relay team ever to do so.

At Paris 2024 she was part of the women’s 4×400 metres relay squad that finished 4th in a national record of 3:19.90, missing a bronze medal by just 0.18 seconds. Known as the Bandon Bullet, Healy is from Ballineen, Co. Cork and is a member of Bandon AC. Her sister Joan is also a sprinter.

She described herself as a late developer who only fully focused on athletics at 17, but her extraordinary talent announced itself to the world in 2016 when a video of her closing an 80-metre deficit on the anchor leg of the Irish University 4x400m Championships went viral globally. She set the Irish 200 metres national record in 2018. She holds a Masters degree in Enterprise Computer Software and has spoken publicly about managing Hashimoto’s disease, a thyroid condition that significantly impacted her performances in the years leading up to Paris.