Jodie Williams

Jodie Williams

Williams at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Personal information
Nationality	United Kingdom
Born	(1993-09-28) 28 September 1993 (age 23) Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Weight	60 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	100 metres, 200 metres
Club	Herts Phoenix AC
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m: 11.18 (Tallinn, 2011) 200 m: 22.46 (Zurich, 2014)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Great Britain and  England European Championships 2014 Zürich 4 x 100 m relay 2014 Zürich 200 m Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow 200m 2014 Glasgow 4×100 m relay World Junior Championships 2010 Moncton 100 m 2010 Moncton 200 m World Youth Championships 2009 Brixen 100 m 2009 Brixen 200 m European U23 Championships 2013 Tampere 200 m 2013 Tampere 100 m 2013 Tampere 4×100 m relay European Junior Championships 2011 Tallinn 100 m 2011 Tallinn 200 m 2011 Tallinn 4×100 m relay

100 m: 11.18 (Tallinn, 2011)

Jodie Alicia Williams (born 28 September 1993) is a British sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. A prodigious junior, she is the 2009 World Youth Champion at 100 and 200 m, the 2010 World Junior Champion at 100 m, the 2011 European Junior Champion at 100 m and 200 m, and the 2013 European U23 Champion at 200 m.

Williams had a five-year-long unbeaten streak of 151 races in the sprints, beginning with the start of her athletics career in 2005 and lasting until July 2010, when she was runner-up to Stormy Kendrick in the 200 m at the World Junior Championships. Williams is the British youth record holder over the 60 m, 100 m and 200 m. At the age of sixteen, she was the top-ranked British woman over 200 m in 2010.

After a difficult beginning to her senior career following injuries, in 2014 Williams won her first senior medals, representing England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games; a bronze in the 4 × 100 metres relay, and a silver in the 200 metres. Weeks later she repeated the silver medal for 200 metres at the 2014 European Championships, before winning her first senior gold medal as part of the Great Britain relay team that broke the British Record in the 4 × 100 metres relay.

Williams was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire to an English father, Richard Williams and a English mother of Trinidadian and Vincentian descent, Christine Williams. Both of her parents were county-level sprinters. Richard ran for Hertfordshire, while Christine ran for Sussex. She also has two siblings, her younger brother named Ben and younger sister called Hannah. Her father recognized her talent at a young age: "Jodie would have finished while her nearest rival was still only about halfway up the track".