Jodie Williams

Jodie Williams

Williams at the 2022 European Athletics Championships
Personal information
Full name	Jodie Alicia Williams
Born	(1993-09-28) 28 September 1993 (age 31) Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight	60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Country	Great Britain & N.I. England
Sport	Women's athletics
Event(s)	100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres
Club	Herts Phoenix AC
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	100 m: 11.17 (Lubbock, 2019) 200 m: 22.46 (Zürich, 2014) 400 m: 49.97 (Tokyo, 2021)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 2024 Paris 4×400 m relay European Championships 2014 Zürich 4x100 m relay 2014 Zürich 200 m 2022 Munich 4x400 m relay European Indoor Championships 2021 Toruń 4x400 m relay 2021 Toruń 400 m 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 Representing  England Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow 200 m 2014 Glasgow 4×100 m relay 2022 Birmingham 400 m

Jodie Alicia Williams (born 28 September 1993)^[2] is a retired^[3] British sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres, having begun her career concentrating on 100 and 200 metres.

A prodigious junior in the shorter sprints, 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 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.^[4][5] 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.^[6]

After a difficult beginning to her senior career following recurring 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.

Further injuries stalled her senior progress as Williams transitioned to the longer sprint, although she won several senior British championships in the years between 2014 and 2021. In 2021, her transition bore fruit, winning individual bronze over 400 metres at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships along with relay silver. At the 2022 European Championships, she was also part of British 4 x 400 quartet than ran the second fastest time ever (3:21.74) by a British women's team while Williams again won bronze at the 2022 Commonwealth Games for England, her final major international medal.^[7]

In 2024, aged 30, Williams was selected for her third Olympic Games as a relay-only runner. Williams finally won her first senior global medal, an Olympic bronze medal, as a heat-running member of the Great Britain women's 4 x 400 metres relay squad that finished third at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Four months later, with nine international medals and four British national titles, Williams announced her retirement from elite track and field athletics.^[3]