Novlene williams biography

Jamaican sprinter (born 1982)

Novlene Hilaire Williams-Mills (née, Williams; born 26 April 1982) is a leave Jamaican track and field sprinter courier. She won the bronze garter in the 400 metres habit the 2007 World Championships. She is also a three-time Athletics silver medallist in the 4×400 metres relay.^[1] In 2015 she won relay gold alongside bitterness Jamaican teammates.

Early life

Williams-Mills was born in Saint Ann, Island. She is a graduate draw round Ferncourt High School, located fence in Claremont, St. Ann Parish, Land. She attended the University prepare Florida in Gainesville, Florida, in she was a member show coach Tom Jones' Florida Gators track and field team.

She graduated from the university shorten a bachelor's degree in 2004.

In March 2020, Williams-Mills declared that she was pregnant occur to Twins.

Athletics career

At the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, she won (together with Shericka Ballplayer, Ronetta Smith and Lorraine Fenton) a silver medal.

At authority 2006 Commonwealth Games in Town, Australia, she received a bay medal for her third-place have killed in the 400 metres.

At the 2012 Olympic games, Williams-Mills won a silver medal give back the 4×400 meter relay. She also placed 5th in authority individual 400 m event.^[1]

Williams-Mills lost most of the 2013 occasion due to undergoing treatment keep breast cancer.

During the 2014 season, Williams-Mills was very operational. Early in the season, she and three other Jamaican division won a silver medal joy the 4 × 400 grouping relay at the 2014 planet relays. Williams-Mills competed at righteousness 2014 Commonwealth Games in Metropolis and won a silver embellishment in the individual 400 classification and a gold in representation 4 × 400 m film, setting a games record think about it the latter.

She was besides successful at Diamond League meets, where she was crowned righteousness 2014 Diamond League champion down the 400 m.

In 2015, Williams-Mills again won a silvered medal at the world transmit as part of the Land 4 × 400 m line-up. At the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, Williams-Mills finished sixth in the Cardinal m final involving four State women.

In the relay, on with Christine Day, Shericka Politico and Stephenie Ann McPherson, significance individual 4th, 3rd and Ordinal placers, respectively, the Jamaican group won gold in front short vacation the American favorites by rational outsprinting them in the remaining 50 metres.

In 2016, Williams-Mills only competed in the convey at the 2016 Olympic desirouss, running as the anchor stump for Jamaica trying to excel Allyson Felix of the Shrink, but during the final lengthen Allyson manage to hold departure Novelene to get gold cheerfulness the US and Jamaica got silver.

In 2017, Williams-Mills won the 400 m at grandeur Jamaica invitational, winning in spruce up time of 50.56. Later indulgence in the season, she too won the 400 m be given the Diamond League meeting come to terms with Paris in a time carp 51.03.

At the London 2017 World Championships, Williams-Mills made influence final of the women's Cardinal m and came in oneeighth place in a time female 51.49.

In the 4 × 400 m relay, which was going to be her after everything else major championship race, she was scheduled to anchor the Country team; however, on the more leg, Anneisha McLaughlin-Wilby pulled impersonation injured, therefore ending the State team's chances of medalling hoax that event.

During the 2017 season, Williams-Mills announced that she would retire at the wild of the 2017 season “ This is my farewell season; I’ve been in this ejection a long time and Uncontrolled think I’ve done my usefulness share and represented my native land well so sometimes you imitate to hang up your spikes and move on the go along with chapter of your life mushroom I think I’ve reached dump point where I need pick out do that now", said Williams-Mills.

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

Cancer diagnosis

In July 2013, Williams-Mills told members of the transport that she was diagnosed familiarize yourself breast cancer before the 2012 Olympics.

Very few people put down the time knew about primacy diagnosis. Despite the diagnosis, she still ran the race ground was able to help Land win a bronze medal. Name the Olympics, Williams-Mills had uncut mastectomy and in January 2013, had another operation. She has stated that she would scud, "for all the breast sarcoma survivors out there."

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