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Lizzy Yarnold

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Elizabeth Anne Yarnold, OBE (born 31 October 1988) is a British former skeleton racer who joined the Great Britain national squad in 2010. With consecutive Olympic gold medals in 2014 and 2018, she is the most successful British Winter Olympian and the most successful Olympic skeleton athlete of all time from any nation. She won the 2013–14 Skeleton World Cup (only once finishing off the podium the whole season), followed by a gold in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Yarnold was selected to be one of the two women skeleton drivers representing Team GB at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, and went on to become the first person to defend an Olympic gold in skeleton and the first British athlete to defend a Winter Olympic title. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Lizzy Yarnold is the 3,389th most popular athlete (up from 5,123rd in 2024), the 6,888th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 7,689th in 2019) and the 128th most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Lizzy Yarnold ranks 3,389 out of 6,025. Before her are Chandra Cheeseborough, Ezekiel Kemboi, Kerstin Förster, Jeff Henderson, Stefano Tilli, and Taoufik Makhloufi. After her are Aki Parviainen, Karnam Malleswari, Isabelle Boéri-Bégard, Petra Behle, Anca Tănase, and Elisabeth Persson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Lizzy Yarnold ranks 438. Before her are Park Gyu-ri, Jason Jordan, Isabella Leong, Holliday Grainger, Taoufik Makhloufi, and Max Kruse. After her are Giancarlo González, Geeta Phogat, Tori Matsuzaka, Miguel Layún, Heidi Reichinnek, and Camila Vallejo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lizzy Yarnold ranks 6,890 out of 8,785. Before her are Simon Sinek (1973), Nathan Baker (1991), Gary Paffett (1981), Holliday Grainger (1988), Pippa Norris (1953), and Dennis Waterman (1948). After her are Sam Totman (1980), Robert Aramayo (1992), Gwilym Lee (1983), Peter Storey (1945), Jill Dando (1961), and Vic Crowe (1932).

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Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Lizzy Yarnold ranks 128. Before her are Sheila Sherwood (1945), Jo Pavey (1973), Simmone Jacobs (1966), Andrew Triggs Hodge (1979), David Broome (1940), and Gary Anderson (1970). After her are Charlie Spedding (1952), Holly Bradshaw (1991), Angela Bailey (1962), David Thompson (1977), Leroy Watson (1965), and John Disley (1928).

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