Lauryn Williams

Lauryn Williams is an American sprinter and bobsledder, born on 11 September 1983 in Rochester, Pennsylvania and raised near Pittsburgh and Detroit. She won the 100 metres at the 2003 Pan American Games, the NCAA title for the University of Miami in 2004 and the world title over 100 metres at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics. She took silver in the 100 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics, was a member of United States 4 x 100 metre relay teams that won world titles in 2005 and 2007, and ran in the heats of the 4 x 100 metre relay that won gold in London in 2012. In 2014 she switched to bobsled and won silver in the two-woman event at the Winter Olympics with Elana Meyers, which made her one of six athletes to win medals at both the Summer and Winter Games and the first American woman to do so. She later became a certified financial planner.