Career: After failing to make an impact as a 400m runner, Williams began competing in skeleton in 2002. She won a silver medal at her first major event, the 2009 World Championships in Lake Placid. A year later at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she won a gold medal in the women's skeleton, breaking the track record twice along the way. She became the first Briton to win a gold medal in an individual event at the Winter Olympics for 30 years. Injuries led to her retirement from the sport in 2012. Since then, Williams has been a co-presenter on Ski Sunday and taken up rally driving. She was a contestant in the second series of 71 Degrees North and in early 2014, she was one of the celebrities competing in Channel 4's reality series The Jump. A year later, Williams was a coach on The Jump.