Helen Williams (née Helen Wright, born 6 March 1973 in

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

) is an Australian female curler originally from

Biography

She is a farmer's daughter from Scotland, from a curling family. She was runner-up in the Scottish Junior Championships, and then played with Olympic gold medallist

Rhona Martin Rhona Howie, MBE (born 12 October 1966, Ayrshire), better known under her married name, Rhona Martin, is a British curler most famous for skipping the British women's team at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where the team claimed the gold medal. S ...

’s team for a while. In 1997, when she was part of the Scottish and Britain national training squad and they were looking ahead to the Olympic Winter Games Nagano 1998, she injured her right ankle and she had a year away from competitive curling. She moved to Australia, to

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

and did not comes back to Scotland. She is a resident of

Nedlands, Western Australia Nedlands is an affluent western suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. It is a part of the local government areas of the City of Nedlands and the City of Perth. It is about from the Perth CBD via either Thomas Street or Mou ...

Teams and events

Women's

Mixed

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* Living people Australian female curlers Scottish female curlers 1973 births Sportspeople from Perth, Western Australia Scottish emigrants to Australia Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Australia {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub