Mellisa Hollingsworth (born October 4, 1980) is a retired Canadian athlete who competed from 1995 to 2014. She won the bronze medal in the women's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
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| Born | October 4, 1980 (age 44) Lacombe, Alberta, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | MelHollingsworth.ca | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hollingsworth also won a silver in the women's skeleton event at the 2000 FIBT World Championships in Igls, Austria. She won the women's Skeleton World Cup overall title both in 2005–06 and in 2009–10.
Hollingsworth is the cousin of Ryan Davenport, who won three medals in the men's skeleton event at the FIBT World Championships in the late 1990s.
Hollingsworth participated in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. After three runs, she was in second position behind Amy Williams of Great Britain. However, in the final run, despite a personal best start time of 4.93 seconds, Hollingsworth fell behind and ended up finishing fifth overall.[1]
Hollingsworth retired after participating in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. [2]
In summer 2018, Hollingsworth competed on The Amazing Race Canada: Heroes Edition with barrel racer Nancy Csabay.[3] They finished in 5th place.[4]
References
edit- ^ Jeff Blair and Allan Maki (2010-02-19). "Hollingsworth falls short of podium". CTV Olympics. Retrieved 2010-02-19.
- ^ "Mellisa Hollingsworth begins her last medal mission". Red-Deer-Advocate. 25 January 2014.
- ^ "Barrel Racer Takes on The Amazing Race Canada". Horse-Canada. 2018-08-20. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
- ^ "Amazing Race Canada: Muertos and mercado in Mexico City". TV, eh?. 2018-08-28. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
External links
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- Official website
- Mellisa Hollingsworth at Team Canada
- Mellisa Hollingsworth at Olympics.com
- Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Mellisa Hollingsworth at the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
- Picture of Davenport and Hollingsworth (davenportsleds.ca)
- List of women's skeleton World Cup champions since 1997 (sports123.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-11-05)
- Women's skeleton Olympic medalists since 2002 (sports123.com)[dead link]
- Women's skeleton world championship medalists since 2000 (sports123.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-03-04)
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