Mellisa Hollingsworth

Medal record
Mellisa Hollingsworth in Calgary (2010)
Skeleton
Competitor for Canada
Olympic Games
Bronze	2006 Turin	Women
World Championships
Silver	2000 Igls	Women
Silver	2012 Lake Placid	Women
Bronze	2011 Königssee	Women
Bronze	2011 Königssee	Mixed team

Mellisa Hollingsworth (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 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 Mellisa Hollingsworth Website
• Mellissa Hollingsworth at the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing
• 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