University of Bath-based skeleton slider Amy Williams today (Friday) became Team GB’s first individual Olympic Winter Games gold medallist for 30 years and the first woman individual gold medallist for 58 years. The 27-year-old won the women’s skeleton title at Vancouver 2010 Olympic by an emphatic 0.56 seconds. Williams said she was delighted with her gold medal. "It's absolutely brilliant. It's out of this world. Never in a million years did I think I'd come...
Skeleton sliders Amy Williams and Adam Pengilly are the latest winners of the Team Bath Athlete of the Month awards, which are supported by the Fat Face store in Bath. Amy and Adam both produced outstanding performances to win silver medals for Great Britain at the 2009 Skeleton World Championships in Lake Placid, USA. Amy’s silver medal rounded off a terrific season for the University of Bath graduate, who also finished in the top-six in...
Adam Pengilly produced an outstanding performance to win Great Britain’s second silver medal of the Skeleton World Championships in Lake Placid. Pengilly’s silver today (Saturday) came just over 24 hours after team-mate Amy Williams struck silver in the women’s competition. Both athletes train at the University of Bath. It is the first time Britain’s skeleton sliders have won two medals at a World Championships and comes less than a year to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic...
Britain’s Amy Williams produced a stunning final run to win the silver medal at the Skeleton World Championships in Lake Placid, the USA. The 26-year-old from Bath went into the fourth and last run today in fourth place – just 0.07 seconds off the bronze medal position. But despite battling against the effects of a virus, she produced easily the fastest final run. With the final round of the competition run in reverse order, that...
