Lauryn Williams

Lauryn Williams
Lauryn Williams, Osaka 2007
nation	United States
birthday	September 11, 1983
place of birth	Pittsburgh
size	160 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	10.88 s ( 100 m )
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 2 × 0 × World championships 3 × 1 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 0 × 1 × 0 × Junior World Championship 1 × 1 × 0 × Pan American Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Athens 2004 100 m gold London 2012 4 × 100 m silver Sochi 2014 Two-man bobsleigh  World championships gold Helsinki 2005 100 m gold Helsinki 2005 4 × 100 m gold Osaka 2007 4 × 100 m silver Osaka 2007 100 m  Indoor world championships silver Moscow 2006 60 m  Pan American Games gold Santo Domingo 2003 100 m  Junior World Championships gold Kingston 2002 100 m silver Kingston 2002 4 × 100 m
last change: February 20, 2014

Lauryn Williams (born September 11, 1983 in Pittsburgh ) is an American sprinter and bobsleigh driver . In 2005 she became world champion in the 100-meter run .

Life

Williams attended Rochester High School until 2000 and then studied at the University of Miami until 2004 .

athletics

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Williams won gold and silver several times at the national championships and junior championships between 2002 and 2004 and achieved her first Olympic silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens over 100 meters, behind Julija Neszjarenka (BLR) and ahead of Veronica Campbell (JAM).

At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 she was the first world champion in the pouring rain in a time of 10.93 s ahead of Veronica Campbell and Christine Arron (FRA). Her final time was only two hundredths of a second above her personal best (10.91 s), which she achieved in Lausanne that same year.

At the 2006 World Indoor Championships in Moscow, she won silver in the 60-meter run. In Osaka at the 2007 World Championships , she won silver in 11.01 seconds behind Veronica Campbell and gold in the 4 x 100 meter relay.

Bobsleigh

Lauryn Williams started in the 2013/14 season for the first time as a pusher with bobsleigh pilot Elana Meyers in the two-man bobsleigh World Cup races. The two Americans won the silver medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Since then, she has been one of the few athletes to have won Olympic medals at both summer and winter games. She ended her career in February 2015.

Williams is 1.60 m tall and has a competition weight of 60 kg.

Web links

• Official website of Lauryn Williams
• Lauryn Williams in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Lauryn Williams in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait at USA Track & Field
• Photos by Lauryn Williams ( Memento June 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )