Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards
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Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards (born October 4, 1980 in Eckville, Alberta) is a Canadian athlete who has competed since 1995. She won the bronze medal in the women's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
Hollingsworth-Richards also won a silver in the women's skeleton event at the 2000 FIBT World Championships in Igls, Austria. She won the women's Skeleton World Cup overall title in 2005-6.
Hollingsworth is the cousin of Ryan Davenport, who won three medals in the men's skeleton event at the FIBT World Championships in the late 1990s.
[edit] References
- FIBT profile
- List of women's skeleton World Cup champions since 1997.
- Picture of Davenport and Hollingsworth
- Women's skeleton Olympic medalists since 2002
- Women's skeleton world championship medalists since 2000
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