Williams won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki;[REF] her winning distance of 6.24 m was a new Olympic record and 1 cm short of Fanny Blankers-Koen's world record set in 1943.
Williams represented Otago and the South Island in netball, and Otago, the South Island and New Zealand (1950, 1953-55) in basketball [REF].