Montell
Douglas

Place of birthLewisham

Age35
Height5' 9"
Weight72kg

Montell Douglas joined British Bobsleigh in the summer of 2016 after a stellar athletics career.

She represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in both the 100m and the 4x100m relay, reaching the final in the latter.

In setting a personal best of 11.05 seconds over the 100m on July 17, 2008, Montell broke a national record that had stood for more than a quarter of a century. Earlier that day, Montell had also run a wind-assisted 10.95 seconds at the Loughborough European Athletics meet.

She won Commonwealth Gold in the 4x100m relay in Delhi and has also competed at both European and World Championship level.

Her first bobsleigh race for GB came in mid-January 2017, just a few days after first taking to the ice in a sled.

A top-10 finish on her World Cup debut was followed by seventh in St Moritz and then an excellent Europa Cup victory before the end of the month. That success alongside Mica McNeill in Winterberg was GB’s first EC gold in seven years and it came just a fortnight after Montell's international bow.

Montell went on to add a Winter Olympic involvement to her summer appearance after she was selected as the reserve athlete for the 2018 Games in PyeongChang. 

She has since recorded a career high fourth with McNeill in the World Cup race in Altenberg in January 2019 and now has two World Championship appearances to her name, having placed 12th in Whistler in 2019 and eighth in Altenberg in February 2020.

MONTELL IN HER OWN WORDS...

  • Nickname: Monty
  • Most likely to be spotted: in my car
  • Least likely to be found: walking
  • Me in three: creative, fierce, fun
  • Heroes: my mum, my ex-training partner Donna Fraser & Venom from Marvel Comics
  • Random fact: I am hypermobile
  • If I wasn’t a slider: (I'd be a driver? lol) a dancer
  • Favourite track St Moritz
  • Favourite food Popcorn
  • Favourite film The Fifth Element
  • Favourite music Bashment

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