Lauryn Williams

Lauryn Williams, Osaka 2007

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

Life

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

Athletics

Williams has won multiple gold and silver at the national championships and Junior Championships in 2002 and 2004 and peaked at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens over 100 meters her first Olympic silver medal, behind Julija Neszjarenka (BLR ) and before Veronica Campbell ( JAM).

At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 it was in the pouring rain for the first time world champion in a time of 10.93 s ago Veronica Campbell and Christine Arron (FRA). Your final time was just two hundredths of a second over her personal best ( 10.91 s ), which they achieved in Lausanne in the same year.

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

Bobs

Lauryn Williams started in the 2013/14 season for the first time as a brakeman Elana Meyers with Bobpilotin in two-man World Cup races. At the Olympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi, the two U.S. women won the silver medal. Since then it is one of the few athletes who have won both in summer and in the Winter Games which Olympic medals.

Williams has a competition weight of 60 kg at a height of 1.60 m.