{{short description|British skeleton racer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox sportsperson | image = | caption = | headercolor = lightsteelblue | birth_name = Alexandra Andrea Hamilton | full_name = Alexandra Andrea Coomber | birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|28 December 1973}} | birth_place = Antwerpen, Belgium | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's skeleton }} {{MedalCountry | {{GBR2}} }} {{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }} center|80px {{MedalBronze | 2002 Salt Lake City | Women }} {{MedalCompetition | World Championships }} {{MedalSilver | 2001 Calgary | Women }} }}
'''Alexandra Andrea Coomber''' (née '''Hamilton'''; born 28 December 1973) is a British skeleton racer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She won the bronze medal in the women's skeleton event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City,<ref>{{cite web |title=Skeleton Olympic Games |url=http://sports123.com/ske/wo.html |publisher=Sports 123 |accessdate=27 April 2014}}</ref> while competing with a broken wrist, having broken it in training 10 days prior to her race.<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Alex Coomber |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/alex-coomber-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418000906/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/alex-coomber-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |access-date=27 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Alex Coomber |url=http://www.teambath.com/2011/05/06/alex-coomber/ |publisher=Team Bath |accessdate=27 April 2014 |archive-date=28 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428001453/http://www.teambath.com/2011/05/06/alex-coomber/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Coomber, who married in 2000, holds many records for achievements in the field of skeleton, won the first British Championship she entered, and was unbeaten at all other British championships. She won the women's Skeleton World Cup title three years in a row (1999–2000, 2000–1, 2001–2),<ref>{{cite news |last=Chadband |first=Ian |title=Lizzy Yarnold wins women's skeleton at 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics to claim Great Britain's first gold medal |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/winter-olympics/10639564/Lizzy-Yarnold-wins-womens-skeleton-at-2014-Sochi-Winter-Olympics-to-claim-Great-Britains-first-gold-medal.html |accessdate=27 April 2014 |newspaper=The Telegraph|date=14 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Roll of honour |url=http://www.britishskeleton.co.uk/the-association/history/roll-of-honour/ |publisher=British Skeleton |accessdate=27 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428011034/http://www.britishskeleton.co.uk/the-association/history/roll-of-honour/ |archivedate=28 April 2014 }}</ref> a record listed in the Guinness Book of Records. Coomber was the first British athlete to win three winter World Cup series. During her career, she set track records at La Plagne, Lake Placid, and Nagano. She had been an intelligence officer of the Royal Air Force,<ref>{{cite news |last=Mackay |first=Duncan |title=Skeleton holds no fear for ice-cold Alex |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2002/feb/05/olympicgames.winterolympics2002 |accessdate=27 April 2014 |newspaper=The Guardian|date=5 February 2002}}</ref> and retired from competing in the skeleton in order to return to her previous profession.<ref>{{cite news |title=Coomber cherishes medal moment |date=22 February 2002 |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/luge_and_skeleton/newsid_1835000/1835111.stm |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 April 2014}}</ref> Coomber previously studied at Hertford College, Oxford.<ref>{{cite web |title=Oxonian Olympians |publisher=University of Oxford |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/about/oxford-people/Oxford-at-the-Olympics |accessdate=27 April 2014}}</ref>
Coomber also won a silver medal in the women's skeleton event at the 2001 FIBT World Championships in Calgary.
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== External links == * {{Team GB|3FmqJGrq5k3d9kI4nNryzA}} * {{Olympics.com profile|alex-coomber}} * {{Olympedia}}
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