Helen Williams (née Helen Wright, born 6 March 1973 in Dumfries, Scotland) is an Australian female curler originally from Scotland. Williams notably was the skip of the first ever Australian team at a World Women's Curling Championship in 2026.
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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’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 and did not comes back to Scotland.
Williams would continue to curl in Australia, most notably winning a bronze medal at the 2001 Pacific Curling Championships. After taking a break from competitive women's curling, Williams would return and win her next Australian women's championship in 2024, representing Australia at the 2024 Pan Continental B-Division, where they would win the event, promoting Australia to the A-Division for 2025. Williams would then win her second straight national championship the 2025, giving her team the opportunity to represent Australia, with the goal of qualifying for the 2026 Winter Olympics. The team would finish in third place at the 2025 Pre-Olympic Qualification Event, qualifying for the 2025 Olympic Qualification Event. At the official Olympic qualifying event, they would finish with a record of 1–6, missing the playoffs and not qualifying for the Olympics. However, Williams would also skip the Australian team at the 2025 Pan Continental Curling Championships, where they would finish the round robin with a 2–5 record and qualify for the 2026 World Women's Curling Championship, Australia's first ever appearance at the event. At the World Championships, Williams would skip Australia to also their first victory, a 7–6 extra-end victory over Norway's Torild Bjørnstad, they would finish in last place with an 1–11 record.
She is a resident of Nedlands, Western Australia.
Personal life
Williams works as a paediatrician at the Perth Children's Hospital and as an associate professor at the University of Western Australia. She is married.