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Full name | Danielle Gracia Williams | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | St. Andrew, Jamaica [1] | 14 September 1992|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Johnson C. Smith University [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Jamaica | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 100 metres hurdles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Lennox Graham | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Danielle Gracia Williams (born 14 September 1992) is a Jamaican track and field athlete specialising in the 100 metres hurdles. [3] She is best known for winning gold medals at the 2015 World Championships and at the 2023 World Championships. In addition, she won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships, won two medals at Summer Universiades, bronze in 2013 and gold in 2015, won silver medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and the 2018 NACAC Championships, and represented her country at the 2013 World Championships, all in the 100m hurdles.
Her older sister, Shermaine, is also a hurdler.
In 2013, Williams placed third in the 100m hurdles at the Summer Universiade. Later that year, she competed at the World Championships in Moscow, where she made the semi-finals. [4]
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Williams placed fourth in the 100m hurdles, narrowly missing out on a medal. [5]
Williams won gold at the 2015 Summer Universiade with a time of 12.78 s. She followed that up by winning gold at the 2015 World Championships in a new personal best of 12.57 s. [6]
In 2017, Williams won the Jamaican Championships in a personal best time of 12.56 s, qualifying her for the World Championships where she made the semi-final. [7]
Williams won her first Diamond League at the 2019 Müller Anniversary Games in a new national record of 12.32 s. [8] [9] She competed at the 2019 World Championships, winning the bronze medal. [10]
In 2022, Williams set a new 60m hurdles personal best of 7.75 s in Clemson. [11] She competed at the World Championships in Eugene, finishing sixth. [12] The next month, she represented Jamaica at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, also finishing sixth.
At the 2023 World Championships, Williams won gold in a time of 12.43 s. [13]
In 2024, Williams placed second at the Jamaican Championships, finishing behind Ackera Nugent. This qualified her for her first Olympics, where she went out in the semi-finals. [14]
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