Lily Williams (cyclist)
Appearance
![]() Williams at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. | June 24, 1994|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 146 lb (66 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Human Powered Health | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Professional teams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018–2019 | Hagens Berman–Supermint[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2020– | Rally Cycling[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lily Williams (born June 24, 1994) is an American professional racing cyclist, who currently[when?] rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Human Powered Health.[3]
Williams, the daughter of Olympic speed skater Sarah Docter Williams, grew up in Florida and ran cross country for Vanderbilt University. After graduating from Vanderbilt, she enrolled at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 2016 and took up an interest in competitive cycling.[4]
In June 2021, she qualified to represent the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Hagens Berman-Supermint announce 2019 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. January 2, 2019. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
- ^ "Rally Cycling". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on February 3, 2020. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
- ^ "Rally Cycling". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on January 24, 2021. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
- ^ Hargadon, Sean (July 18, 2022). "Lily Williams Takes on the Tour de France Femmes". Northwestern Magazine. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
- ^ "U.S. Olympic cycling roster set with road, indoor, BMX, mountain teams". OlympicTalk | NBC Sports. June 10, 2021. Retrieved June 17, 2021.
External links
[edit]- Lily Williams at USA Cycling
- Lily Williams at UCI
- Lily Williams at Cycling Archives
- Lily Williams at ProCyclingStats
- Lily Williams at Cycling Quotient
- Lily Williams at CycleBase
- Lily Williams at Olympics.com
- Lily Williams at Olympedia
- Lily Williams at Team USA (archive April 9, 2023)
Categories:
- 1994 births
- Living people
- American female cyclists
- American track cyclists
- Sportspeople from Tallahassee, Florida
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women)
- Cyclists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in cycling
- Olympic cyclists for the United States
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in cycling
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Cyclists from Florida
- Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Vanderbilt University alumni
- Medill School of Journalism alumni
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in cycling
- American cycling biography stubs