Mellisa Hollingsworth

Mellisa Hollingsworth

220px Hollingsworth in Calgary (2010)
Personal information
Born	October 4, 1980 (1980-10-04) (age 44) Lacombe, Alberta, Canada
Website	www.melhollingsworth.ca
Medal record Skeleton Representing Canada Olympic Games 2006 Turin Women World Championships 2000 Igls Women 2012 Lake Placid Women 2011 Königssee Women 2011 Königssee Mixed team 2012 Lake Placid Mixed team

Mellisa Hollingsworth (born October 4, 1980 in Lacombe, 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 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 both in 2005-6 and in 2009–10.

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.

Hollingsworth participated in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. After three runs, she was in second position behind Amy Williams of Great Britain. However, in the final run, despite a personal best start time of 4.93 seconds, Hollingsworth fell behind and ended up finishing fifth overall.

External links

• Official website
• Mellisa Hollingsworth at the Canadian Olympic Committee
• Mellisa Hollingsworth at the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Picture of Davenport and Hollingsworth
• List of women's skeleton World Cup champions since 1997
• Women's skeleton Olympic medalists since 2002
• Women's skeleton world championship medalists since 2000