Mellisa Hollingsworth (born October 4, 1980) is a retired

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athlete who competed from 1995 to 2014. She won the bronze medal in the women's skeleton event at the

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. Hollingsworth also won a silver in the women's skeleton event at the 2000 FIBT World Championships in

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. She won the women's

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overall title both in 2005–06 and in 2009–10. Hollingsworth is the cousin of Ryan Davenport, who won three medals in the men's skeleton event at the

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in the late 1990s. Hollingsworth participated in the

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, British Columbia. After three runs, she was in second position behind

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of Great Britain. However, in the final run, despite a personal best start time of 4.93 seconds, Hollingsworth fell behind and ended up finishing fifth overall. Hollingsworth retired after participating in the

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in Sochi, Russia. In summer 2018, Hollingsworth competed on '' The Amazing Race Canada: Heroes Edition'' with barrel racer Nancy Csabay. They finished in 5th place.

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Picture of Davenport and Hollingsworth (davenportsleds.ca)
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* 1980 births Sportspeople from Alberta Canadian female skeleton racers Living people Olympic bronze medalists for Canada Olympic skeleton racers for Canada Skeleton racers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Skeleton racers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in skeleton Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics Skeleton racers at the 2014 Winter Olympics People from Lacombe, Alberta Participants in Canadian reality television series 21st-century Canadian sportswomen {{Skeleton-bio-stub