Lauren Williams

Lauren Williams, born on 25 February 1999, is a British taekwondo athlete who represents Great Britain and trains in Manchester. She practised kickboxing for ten years, winning twelve world and twenty European titles, before switching to taekwondo after watching Jade Jones win Olympic gold in 2012. She won two Junior World Championship golds in 2014 and 2016 and, as a senior in the 67 kg class, became European champion in 2016 and 2018. At the Tokyo Games she won the Olympic silver medal in the under 67 kg category despite a torn hamstring, losing the final to Matea Jelić after leading until the last ten seconds. She took a bronze medal at the 2025 World Taekwondo Championships, her first senior world medal.