Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards 4095519 223828622 2008-07-06T00:52:01Z Thivierr 164876 pic {{MedalTableTop|Mellisa Hollingsworth 1a.jpg|220px|Attending the 2008 Calgary Stampede Parade}} {{MedalSport|[[Skeleton (sport)|Skeleton]]}} {{MedalOlympic}} {{MedalBronze|[[2006 Winter Olympics|2006 Turin]]|[[Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics|Women]]}} {{MedalWorldChampionships}} {{MedalSilver|[[FIBT World Championships 2000|2000 Igls]]|Women}} {{MedalBottom}} '''Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards''' (born [[October 4]], [[1980]] in [[Eckville, Alberta]]) is a [[Canada|Canadian]] athlete who has competed since 1995. She won the bronze medal in the [[Skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics|women's skeleton event]] at the [[2006 Winter Olympics]] in [[Turin]]. Hollingsworth-Richards also won a silver in the women's skeleton event at the [[FIBT World Championships 2000|2000 FIBT World Championships]] in [[Igls]], [[Austria]]. She won the women's [[List of Skeleton World Cup champions|Skeleton World Cup]] overall title in [[2005/2006 Skeleton World Cup|2005-6]]. 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. ==References== {{Commons2|Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards}} *[http://www.sportresult.com/sports/bs/db/biography.asp?p_id=100564&nat=&sport=&sex=&season=&stat=&venue=&events= FIBT profile] *[http://sports123.com/ske/wwc.html List of women's skeleton World Cup champions since 1997.] *[http://www.davenportsleds.ca/phryanmh.htm Picture of Davenport and Hollingsworth] *[http://sports123.com/ske/wo.html Women's skeleton Olympic medalists since 2002] *[http://sports123.com/ske/ww.html Women's skeleton world championship medalists since 2000] {{Footer World Cup Champions Skeleton Women}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hollingsworth-Richards, Mellisa}} [[Category:1980 births]] [[Category:Alberta sportspeople]] [[Category:Canadian skeleton racers]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Canada]] [[Category:Olympic skeleton racers of Canada]] [[Category:Skeleton racers at the 2006 Winter Olympics]] [[Category:Winter Olympics medalists]] [[Category:Canadian sportswomen]] {{Canada-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub}} {{Skeleton-bio-stub}} [[de:Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards]] [[fr:Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards]]