14 Facts About Shelley Rudman

Shelley Rudman was born on 23 March 1981 and is a skeleton bobsleigh athlete who was the 2013 world champion in the event.

Shelley Rudman won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and is a former World Cup and European champion.

Shelley Rudman took up skeleton in October 2002, after a university friend and skeleton athlete introduced her to the sport at the University of Bath push track.

Shelley Rudman spent some time working as a supply teacher at Devizes School, a secondary school in Devizes, Wiltshire.

Shelley Rudman won the 2009 European Bob Skeleton Championships at the St Moritz track in Switzerland, breaking the track record with a time of 1:09.97 on her second run.

Shelley Rudman repeated her feat of finishing the season in 2nd place overall in the World Cup, behind champion Mellissa Hollingsworth of Canada.

The last race of the season in Igls, Austria, counted as the 2010 European Championships, and Shelley Rudman finished with the bronze medal in 3rd place.

On 29 January 2010, Shelley Rudman was officially announced as part of the Team GB Skeleton Bobsleigh squad to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.

Shelley Rudman was the flagbearer for Britain at those games.

An hour's delay to the race start affected the settings Shelley Rudman had chosen for the first run, which resulted in her finishing low in the overall standings after day one.

Shelley Rudman is married to fellow British skeleton competitor Kristan Bromley, with whom she has a daughter born in October 2007, and another in January 2015.

In February 2016, Shelley Rudman was nominated to be an International Olympic Committee Athlete Role Model for the Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.

In 2017, Shelley Rudman set up a fitness gym business in her home county of Wiltshire.

Shelley Rudman is a trustee and ambassador of Wiltshire and Bath Air Ambulance Charity.