Alain Williams

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
World Championships
Gold 1983 Tampere K-2 10000 m
Bronze 1981 Nottingham K-4 10000 m

Alan Williams (born 21 April 1954) is a British sprint canoer who competed from the late 1970s to the mid 1980s. He won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1983) and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1981).

Williams also competed in two Summer Olympics, but did not advance to the final in either of the games he competed. His best finish was a fifth in the semifinal round of the K-4 1000 m event at Montreal in 1976.

References

1938: Sweden (Gunnar Johansson & Berndt Berndtsson) * 1938: (folding) Sweden (Carl-Gustav Hellstrandt & Erik Helsvik) * 1950: Sweden (Gunnar Åkerlund & Hans Wetterström) * 1954: Austria (Maximilian Raub & Herbert Wiedermann) * 1958: Hungary (János Urányi & László Fábián) * 1963: Hungary (László Fábián & István Timár) * 1966: Hungary (Imre Szöllősi & László Fábián) * 1970: Soviet Union (Konstantin Kostenko & Vyacheslav Kononov) * 1971: Soviet Union (Konstantin Kostenko & Vyacheslav Kononov) * 1973: Hungary (Zoltán Bakó & Géza Csapó) * 1974: Romania (Antrop Varabiev & Ion Terente) * 1975: Hungary (Zoltán Bakó & István Szabó) * 1977: Soviet Union (Petras Shurskas & Anatoliy Korolkov) * 1978: Hungary (Zoltán Bakó & István Szabó) * 1979: Romania (Nicuşor Eşanu & Ion Bîrlădeanu) * 1981: Soviet Union (Nikolay Astapkovich & Vladimir Romanovsky) * 1982: France (Bernard Brégeon & Patrick Lefoulon) * 1983: Great Britain (Stephen Jackson & Alain Williams) * 1985: Sweden (Mikael Berger & Conny Edholm) * 1986: Hungary (Gábor Kulcsar & László Gindl) * 1987: France (Philippe Boccara & Pascal Boucherit) * 1989: Hungary (Attila Ábrahám & Sándor Hódosi) * 1990: Great Britain (Grayson Burne & Ivan Lawler) * 1991: France (Philippe Boccara & Pascal Boucherit) * 1993: Hungary (Zsolt Borhi & Attila Ábrahám)