Lizzie Williams

Career Williams originally quit the sport in 2004 and returned ten years later at the end of 2013, spending the time before her comeback as a teacher whilst playing Australian rules football. In a gap in the 2014 NRS calendar, Williams was a guest rider in the US with Jono Coulter-managed team Vanderkitten for a couple of months. Coulter suggested she apply for the Amy Gillett Cycling Scholarship, she was awarded the 2014 scholarship to race with the Australian National team in Europe the next month. She rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.

Williams would be offered a contract with Australian UCI Women's Team for 2015, achieving her first UCI win that year. With the pressure of an Olympic year in 2016, an injury plagued spring classics season proved to be the breaking point for Williams and she left the Australian base in Europe unannounced. Williams reconnected with Jono Coulter to ride for his co-managed US-based UCI team in 2017. Williams had signed with for 2018 taking more of a leadership role in the higher UCI-ranked team. In between the 2017 and 2018 road seasons, Williams would not return to racing with Tibco, citing the isolation from family of athlete life overseas, choosing to retire to preserve her mental health.

Major results

2003

2014 4th Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin 6th Philadelphia Cycling Classic 7th Overall La Route de France 8th Road race, Oceania Road Championships 2015 1st SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn

3rd Overall Bay Classic Series 5th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 5th Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol 8th Overall Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs 9th Overall Women's Tour Down Under 9th Overall Ladies Tour of Norway 9th Sparkassen Giro 2016 2nd Criterium, National Road Championships 6th Overall Women's Tour Down Under 1st Stage 3 2017 4th Winston-Salem Cycling Classic