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British Olympian Jodie Williams retires from athletics
British Olympian Jodie Williams has announced her retirement from athletics.
Williams, 31, competed at three Olympic Games and was part of Team GB's bronze medal-winning women's 4x400m relay team at Paris 2024.
Among her individual honours, Williams won European and Commonwealth 200m silvers among nine major international medals at senior level.
"Dear track and field, the time has come for us to part ways," Williams posted on social media.
You allowed me to achieve my childhood dreams and have taken me from an awkward little girl with no confidence to a just as awkward but much more confident woman."
Williams specialised in the 200m and is the sixth-fastest British woman over that distance, with the 22.46 seconds she clocked for European silver in 2014.
Later in her career she also had success in the 400m, winning Commonwealth bronze in Birmingham in 2022.
She earned her first global medal as a member of the women's 4x400m team in Paris, competing in the heats before Victoria Ohuruogu, Laviai Nielsen, Nicole Yeargin and Amber Anning finished behind the United States and the Netherlands in the final.
(11/06/2024) Views: 38 ⚡AMPby BBC News
