Amy Williams won a gold medal, becoming the first British individual gold medallist at a Winter Olympics for 30 years and the only British medallist in those Olympics.
16 Facts About Amy Williams
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Amy Williams's father, Ian Williams, was a professor of chemistry at the University of Bath, and her mother, Janet Williams, is a former midwife.
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Amy Williams was originally a 400m runner but she was unable to qualify for the national athletics team.
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Amy Williams began competing in skeleton in 2002 after trying out at a push-start track at the University of Bath.
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Amy Williams described her first experience on a skeleton track as exhilarating and terrifying, but she nonetheless enjoyed it and began training in skeleton.
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Amy Williams was unable to qualify for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, as Great Britain was only allowed to enter a single skeleton athlete in that year's competition, a spot won by Shelley Rudman, who went on to win the silver medal.
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At the 2010 Games, Amy Williams won the gold medal in the women's skeleton, breaking the track record twice along the way and winning by more than a half a second.
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Amy Williams became the first British gold medallist in an individual event at the Winter Olympics for 30 years, following Robin Cousins's victory in figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, and the first British female individual Winter Olympics gold medallist since Jeannette Altwegg in 1952.
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Amy Williams was a contestant in the second series of the ITV show 71 Degrees North in late 2011.
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Amy Williams has appeared in the CBBC series, 12 Again.
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On 1 May 2012, Amy Williams announced her retirement from skeleton and said her injuries were behind her quitting the sport.
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On 25 April 2014, it was announced that Amy Williams would replace Rachel Riley as a presenter on Channel 5's The Gadget Show.
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In October 2019, Amy Williams was appointed as the first Ambassador of the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust, a charity that enables former athletes to mentor and support disadvantaged young people.
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In June 2022, Amy Williams co-presented the ITV4 coverage of the 2022 Isle of Man TT, along with Matt Roberts, Steve Plater and Cameron Donald.
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Amy Williams was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 Birthday Honours.
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Amy Williams was installed as an Honorary Freeman of the City of Bath on 5 June 2010.