Victoria Eve Williamson was born on 15 September 1993 and is an elite English bobsledder and former track cyclist who specialised in the sprint disciplines.
11 Facts About Victoria Williamson
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Victoria Williamson entered the Girls4Gold programme, a group that searches for talented athletes with a potential for cycling, before being accepted into the Olympic Development Programme.
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Victoria Williamson then progressed onto the elite Podium Programme two years later, and made her senior debut at the 2013 World Championships in Minsk.
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Victoria Williamson made her senior world debut very shortly after, and won a bronze medal with partner Becky James in the team sprint at the 2013 Track World Championships in Minsk, Belarus.
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In January 2016 Williamson was involved in a traumatic crash with Dutch rider Elis Ligtlee, at the during an omnium sprint race at Six Days of Rotterdam.
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The collision with the fence resulted in Victoria Williamson suffering a broken neck and back, dislocating her pelvis and slipping a disc in her neck.
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Victoria Williamson's racing number burned her skin in the crash and according to her if it had become infected, she would have had plastic surgery.
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Victoria Williamson was left with a loss of feeling in her left leg, her starting leg, due to a trapped nerve but was hoping for full feeling by mid 2018.
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Victoria Williamson hoped to complete her rehabilitation by the end of January and to race at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
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In late January 2019, three years after suffering career-threatening injuries, Victoria Williamson returned to competition.
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In December 2019 Victoria Williamson announced that she was switching from cycling to bobsleigh, having participated in her first training camp with the British bobsleigh team.