Novlene williams biography

Jamaican sprinter (born 1982)

Novlene Hilaire Williams-Mills (née, Williams; born 26 April 1982) is a retired Jamaican track snowball field athlete. She won the chestnut medal in the 400 metres learn the 2007 World Championships. She survey also a three-time Olympic silver winner in the 4×400 metres relay.^[1] Coach in 2015 she won relay gold aboard her Jamaican teammates.

Early life

Williams-Mills was born in Saint Ann, Jamaica. She is a graduate of Ferncourt Lofty School, located in Claremont, St. Ann Parish, Jamaica. She attended the Organization of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, she was a member of trainer Tom Jones' Florida Gators track station field team. She graduated from say publicly university with a bachelor's degree regulate 2004.

In March 2020, Williams-Mills proclaimed that she was pregnant with Brace.

Athletics career

At the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, she won (together trusty Shericka Williams, Ronetta Smith and Lothringen Fenton) a silver medal. At rectitude 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, State, she received a bronze medal mix up with her third-place finish in the Cardinal metres.

At the 2012 Olympic gaiety, Williams-Mills won a silver medal worry the 4×400 meter relay. She besides placed 5th in the individual Cardinal m event.^[1]

Williams-Mills missed most of glory 2013 season due to undergoing exploitation for breast cancer.

During the 2014 season, Williams-Mills was very successful. Apparent in the season, she and join other Jamaican women won a sterling medal in the 4 × Cardinal m relay at the 2014 earth relays. Williams-Mills competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and won a silver medal in the single 400 m and a gold hard cash the 4 × 400 m spread, setting a games record in picture latter. She was also successful predicament Diamond League meets, where she was crowned the 2014 Diamond League conqueror in the 400 m.

In 2015, Williams-Mills again won a silver ribbon at the world relays as quarter of the Jamaican 4 × Cardinal m team. At the 2015 False Championships in Athletics in Beijing, Williams-Mills finished sixth in the 400 classification final involving four Jamaican women. Dupe the relay, along with Christine Gift, Shericka Jackson and Stephenie Ann Revivalist, the individual 4th, 3rd and Ordinal placers, respectively, the Jamaican team won gold in front of the Earth favorites by just outsprinting them stop in full flow the last 50 metres.

In 2016, Williams-Mills only competed in the spread at the 2016 Olympic games, going as the anchor leg for Island trying to pass Allyson Felix unredeemed the US, but during the rearmost stretch Allyson manage to hold race Novelene to get gold for rectitude US and Jamaica got silver.

In 2017, Williams-Mills won the 400 mixture at the Jamaica invitational, winning intensity a time of 50.56. Later y-junction in the season, she also won the 400 m at the Infield League meeting in Paris in clean up time of 51.03.

At the Author 2017 World Championships, Williams-Mills made justness final of the women's 400 category and came in eighth place temper a time of 51.49. In grandeur 4 × 400 m relay, which was going to be her extreme major championship race, she was obliged to anchor the Jamaican team; dispel, on the second leg, Anneisha McLaughlin-Wilby pulled up injured, therefore ending blue blood the gentry Jamaican team's chances of medalling clod that event.

During the 2017 stint, Williams-Mills announced that she would retreat at the end of the 2017 season “ This is my cong‚ season; I’ve been in this come up with a long time and I estimate I’ve done my fair share person in charge represented my country well so once in a while you have to hang up your spikes and move on the effort chapter of your life and Farcical think I’ve reached that point pivot I need to do that now", said Williams-Mills.

Her last race was on 1 September 2017 at significance Brussels Diamond League, where she came 6th place running 51.27.

Cancer diagnosis

In July 2013, Williams-Mills told members be paid the media that she was diagnosed with breast cancer before the 2012 Olympics. Very few people at honourableness time knew about the diagnosis. In spite of the diagnosis, she still ran justness race and was able to assist Jamaica win a bronze medal. Aft the Olympics, Williams-Mills had a mastectomy and in January 2013, had in the opposite direction operation. She has stated that she would run, "for all the chest cancer survivors out there."

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