WILLIAMS Laurie

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
4	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
7	Women	2012	London, GBR
World Championships
2	Women	2018	Hamburg, GER
5	Women	2014	Toronto, ON, CAN
6	Women	2010	Birmingham, GBR
European Championships
2	Women	2019	Rotterdam, NED

Smash [taken from the TV show Friday Night Lights after the character Smash Williams], The Whippet (Athlete, 20 Jul 2016; thisismedtech.com, 03 Dec 2018)

Travelling, spending time with her dog. (thisismedtech.com, 03 Dec 2018; Instagram profile, 20 Apr 2021)

Athlete

Psychology - University of Loughborough, Great Britain

Partner Robyn Love

English

Simon Fisher [national], GBR

Her partner Robyn Love has also represented Great Britain in wheelchair basketball. (outsports.com, 23 Feb 2020)

2009 for Great Britain, European Championships in Stoke Mandeville, Great Britain (Athlete, 20 Jul 2016)

She had elbow arthroscopy to remove a loose bone in 2012. (Athlete, 20 Jul 2016)

She began the sport at age 12 in Manchester, England. (Athlete, 20 Jul 2016; rollt-magazin.de)

She was spotted at the Greater Manchester Youth Games participating in wheelchair racing, and was asked to try wheelchair basketball. She fell in love with the physical and team aspects of the sport. "The [school] athletics club entered me into the Greater Manchester Youth Games because, at the time, they had a small disability sport section. I went there and did a few races, and then I met a wheelchair basketball coach and she was like, 'You need to come down and try basketball, it's a lot better than this!' I'd never done anything with other children with physical disabilities, so to be on a court with other kids who were disabled in some way was really nice. It was good for my parents as well, because they got to chat with other parents and learn from them. It opened my eyes to what I could do and what I should be doing." (Athlete, 20 Jul 2016; paralympics.org.uk, 01 Oct 2016; divamag.co.uk, 24 Mar 2020)

To win a medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (rollt-magazin.de, 03 Nov 2019)

Her parents. (rollt-magazin.de, 03 Nov 2019)

She was named as a member of the All Star team at the 2020 Osaka Cup in Osaka, Japan. (wheelchairbasketball.ca, 16 Feb 2020)

She received the Junior Female Achievement award at the 2009 Wheelpower Awards. (telegraph.co.uk, 30 Nov 2009)