National champion, World Indoor 4×100m relay bronze medalist, and once one of Britain’s brightest rising stars, Hannah Williams seemed destined for greatness. But just as she approached the peak of her career, everything began to crumble . “I never really thought that one diagnosis would change my life so much,” said Williams as she revealed the real reason she walked away from sprinting for good last year: a looming fear of complete kidney failure.

The former British 200m champion, in a conversation with Athletics Weekly, revealed that a rare kidney condition forced her to cut short her athletics career. Reminiscing about her 2023 Birmingham World Indoor Championships , she shared that it marked the turning point of the health troubles that she initially chalked up to food poisonin

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