Lauryn Williams, Olympic Gold Medal Winner

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4.9 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Episode 318

Lauryn Williams is an Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter and an Olympic silver medal-winning bobsledder. She is one of six athletes to have won a medal in both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, as well as the first American woman to do so.

At the age 20 in her first Olympics (after winning gold medals at the junior world championships, Pan American Games and NCAA Championships), Williams won the silver medal in the women’s 100-meter dash at the 2004 Athens Games. She went on to win gold in that event at the 2005 World Championships, where she also won gold in the 4x100m relay. Two years later at the 2007 Worlds, she won another relay gold while finishing second in the 100m.

Williams also competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but left without a medal. She placed fourth in the women’s 100m, and the U.S. women were disqualified from the 4x100m relay due to a dropped baton. Williams and the U.S. women redeemed themselves by winning 4x100m relay gold at the 2012 London Games, the final Summer Olympics for Williams.

She then shifted her focus to bobsled in 2013, and teamed up with veteran driver Elana Meyers, who had won a bronze medal at the 2010 Vancouver Games. Williams helped push her to silver at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

In March 2019, Williams released her first book, “The Oval Office,” to provide actionable advice on how you can succeed at building a career as a professional athlete.

On this episode of the podcast, we talked to Williams about her journey to the Olympics, coming to faith in Christ, and trusting Him through the tough moments of her life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.0	This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with
0:22.9	Lauren Williams, Olympic gold medal winner, is brought to you by Compassion International. It's
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1:09.3	Today on the podcast, we welcome Olympic gold medal winner Lauren Williams to the show.
1:15.0	Lauren is a four-time Olympian and a three-time Olympic medalist.
1:19.7	She won the 2004 Olympic Silver Medal in Athens as a sprinter.
1:24.3	She won the 2012 Olympic gold medal in London. And she'll share that story
1:30.5	on exactly how she won that medal. And then in 2014, she won an Olympic silver medal in the
1:38.4	Winter Olympic Games as a bobsledder in Sochi. It's a fascinating story of how she became both a summer and winter Olympian.
1:47.7	She's one of only five athletes to have won a medal in both the summer and winter Olympics
1:51.9	and the first American woman to ever do so.
1:56.2	She also has a new book out called The Oval Office, which was released March 26th, 2019.
2:02.6	And her story is really, really fascinating, especially becoming an Olympian in both the
2:08.6	Winter and Summer Olympic Games, but even more so her faith.
2:11.6	And how her faith really grew after a very poignant moment of her losing her dad in 2008.
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