Annabelle Williams
2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Williams
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| Full name | Annabelle Williams |
| Nationality |
 Australia
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| Born |
21 July 1988 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Weight | 60 kg (130 lb) |
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| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly |
| Classifications | S9, SB8, SM9 |
| Club | Cranbrook Eastern Edge Miami |
| Coach | Denis Cotterell |
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Annabelle Williams, OAM (born 21 July 1988) is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She has a congenital limb deficiency. She appeared in Mad Max 4. Representing Australia, she has won a gold medal at the 2012 London Paralympic Games in the 4 × 100 m medley relay, a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in the Women's 100 m Butterfly S9. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, she earned a silver medal in the Women's 50 m Freestyle S9 and a bronze in the Women's 100 m Multi Disability Freestyle. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, she earned a silver in the Women's 50 m Freestyle S9 event.
Annabelle Josephine Williams was born on 21 July 1988 in Sydney, New South Wales. As a youngster, she lived in Jakarta, Indonesia, only moving back to Australia when she was ten years old. She has completed a degree in international relations and law at Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland and named Bond University Sportsperson of the year for 2007 and was a finalist for the Australian Universities Sportsperson of the Year for 2007. While attending university, she completed a six-month internship in Paris, France, where she worked for the Australian Embassy. After the 2012 Paralympics, she completed an internship in Washington DC. In 2015, Williams was appointed the Australian Olympic Committee's legal counsel.
Williams is missing the lower part of her left arm as the result of a congenital limb deficiency. She is 168 centimetres (66 in) tall and weighs 60 kilograms (130 lb). Before becoming a swimmer, she was involved with athletics but had to leave the sport because of a stress fracture.
Williams is an S9 swimmer and was a member of the Cranbrook Eastern Edge SC. Her main events are the 50 m, 100 m free, 50 m, and the 100 m fly. In the 50 m freestyle event, her best time is 29.42 seconds, a time she set at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Her personal best in the 100 m freestyle is 1:03.00, a time she set at the 2009 Australian Championships.
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