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Shelley Rudman

Shelley Rudman
2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony - Great Britain entering cropped.jpg
Rudman holding British flag at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Medal record
Women's Skeleton
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2006 Turin Women
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 St. Moritz Women
Skeleton World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2011–2012 Women
Silver medal – second place 2008–09 Women
Silver medal – second place 2009–10 Women
Silver medal – second place 2010–11 Women
Bronze medal – third place 2012-13 Women
European Bob and Skeleton Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 St. Moritz Women
Gold medal – first place 2011 St. Moritz Women
Silver medal – second place 2006 Igls Women
Silver medal – second place 2014 Germany Women
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Winterberg Women
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Germany Women
Winter Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2005 Innsbruck Women's Skeleton
British Skeleton ranking
Gold medal – first place 2004 -2012 Women's Skeleton

Shelley Rudman (born 23 March 1981) is one of Britain's most successful skeleton bobsleigh athletes, the 2013 world champion in that event, an Olympic silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in skeleton (the only medal for Great Britain at the Games) and a former World Cup and European champion.

Originally from Pewsey, Wiltshire and currently residing back in Wiltshire after spending 9 years living in Sheffield, UK.

She took up the sport of skeleton after a university friend and GB skeleton athlete Greg Kirk introduced her to the sport in October 2002 at the University of Bath push track. Rudman went for the GB skeleton development team selection at the University of Bath which would allow her to join a funded programme, but wasn't successful in making the team. At the time Rudman was working full-time at the ACS International Schools, Cobham, Surrey and also in her third year of a BSc Degree course at St Mary's College, Twickenham. She decided to apply for an Ice school in Norway run by the British military to pursue the sport and realise her dream of being selected for Great Britain by funding herself around tracks in Europe along with 2 other British servicemen.

The following season in 2003 (after having only three weeks on ice training since starting the sport), she qualified for the World Junior Championships where she finished in 10th position and highest-ranked British female. In 2004, she won the Europa Cup in Igls, Austria. In 2005, she won gold in the World University Games.

Since 2006, Rudman has been self-coaching and learning the tracks herself throughout the World Cup seasons.

In order for her to take part in the 2006 Olympics, Rudman needed £4000 to pay for a new professional sled. Her home town held a special sponsored canoe event (canoeing from Pewsey to Bath where she was training) to help raise the money, and they succeeded. Rudman also spent some time as a supply teacher at Devizes School, a secondary school located in Devizes, Wiltshire.


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