Victoria Williamson

Victoria "Vicky" Williamson, (born 15 September 1993) is an elite British track cyclist who specialises in the sprint disciplines. In 2013, with Rebecca James, she won the bronze medal in the team sprint at the World Track Cycling Championships.

Williamson was educated at Norwich High School for Girls. At the suggestion of one of her coaches at the City of Norwich Athletic Club, she switched from athletics to cycling in 2008. She entered the Girls4Gold programme, a group that searches for talented athletes with a potential for cycling, before being accepted into the Olympic Development Programme (ODP). She then progressed onto the elite Podium Programme 2 years later, and made her senior debut at the 2013 World Championships in Minsk.

At the 2011 Juniors Track World Championships in Moscow, she won a silver in the 500m time trial, a bronze in the sprint and came fifth in the keirin. She made her senior world debut very shortly after, and won a bronze medal with partner Becky James in the team sprint at the 2013 Track World Championships in Minsk, Belarus. Since then she continues to compete at an international level, picking up numerous medals. In January 2016 she was involved in a traumatic crash with Dutch rider Elis Ligtlee, at the Zesdaage Rotterdam. It was here she fractured her neck, back, and pelvis. She is predicted to make a full recovery and will training towards the next Olympics, Tokyo 2020.