Amy Williams
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"Amy Joy Williams" Order of the British Empire/MBE is an English former skeleton (sport)/skeleton racer and Winter Olympic Games/Olympic gold medallist.

Originally a runner, she began training in skeleton after trying the sport on a push-start track at the University of Bath. Although unable to qualify for the 2006 Winter Olympics, she was a member of her nation's team four years later at the 2010 Winter Olympics/2010 Games, and won a gold medal, becoming the first British individual gold medallist at a Winter Olympics for 30 years and the only British medallist of those specific Olympics.

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