Montell Douglas is a well-known British sportswoman who was the first woman to be picked for the Olympics. Explore more facts about the athlete below in this article.
In the women’s 100 m at the British Championships in 2008, she finished second behind Jeanette Kwakye.
Douglas competed in the 100 meters for Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics. She finished second in her first-round heat, 11.36 seconds behind Ivet Lalova, to proceed to the second round.
She was eliminated because her time of 11.38 was only the fourth quickest in her heat, preventing her from qualifying for the semi-finals.
British Bobsleigher: Who Is Montell Douglas?
Montell Douglas is a British athlete. Originally a sprinter with a British record of 11.05 seconds in the 100 meters, she switched to bobsleigh in 2017 and joined the Great Britain women’s two-woman bobsleigh squad the following year.
At the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships, Douglas competed in her first senior major tournament. Despite being eliminated in the semi-finals, she managed to create a new personal best in the 60 meter with a time of 7.28 seconds.
She was a member of the British 4*100 meter relay team that came in fourth place at the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka.
She raced in the 100-meter individual event in the same championships but was eliminated in the quarter-finals.
First Woman To Be Picked For Olympics Achievements
Douglas began bobsleighing in 2016. In January 2017, she finished in the top ten in her first Bobsleigh World Cup race, and later that season, she finished seventh in a race in St. Moritz.
She was the reserve athlete for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
At the two-woman bobsleigh event in Königssee in 2019, Douglas and Mica McNeill finished sixth. Douglas and McNeill finished fourth in the women’s event of the 2020–21 Bobsleigh World Cup in Innsbruck.
Douglas and McNeill were picked for the 2022 Winter Olympics’ 2-woman event in January 2022. Douglas will be the first British athlete to compete in both the summer and winter Olympics.
She was also a member of the Great Britain team that advanced to the final of the 4×100 meter relay and was one of the favorites to win a medal.
Is Montell Douglas On Instagram?
Montell Douglas goes by the handle @monytrackstar on Instagram. Her Instagram account has 3.5K followers.
The athlete has a total of 326 postings to her name. Her portrait photos are mostly available on the walls of her social media accounts.
On the 17th of July, she ran a wind-assisted (+2.6 m/s) time of 10.95 seconds in the semi-final of the Loughborough European Athletics competition.
Douglas’ legal wind performance in the final, however, was more important: with a time of 11.05 seconds, she smashed Kathy Cook’s British record.
She had improved her personal best by nearly a quarter of a second and, in the process, shattered a national record that had stood unbroken for over a quarter-century.