Heptathlon 6,955 points[1] Pentathlon 4,937 points[1] Medal record Competitor for Great Britain Women's athletics Olympic Games Gold 2012 London Heptathlon World Championships Gold 2009 Berlin Heptathlon Silver 2011 Daegu Heptathlon World Indoor Championships Gold 2010 Doha Pentathlon Silver 2012 Istanbul Pentathlon European Championships Gold 2010 Barcelona Heptathlon Summer Universiade Bronze 2005 Izmir Heptathlon Competitor for England Commonwealth Games Bronze 2006 Melbourne Heptathlon Updated on 4 August 2012. Jessica Ennis, MBE (born 28 January 1986) is a British track and field athlete specialising in multi-eventing disciplines and 100m hurdles. A member of the City of Sheffield Athletic Club, she is the former European and world heptathlon champion[2] and the former world indoor pentathlon champion. She is the current British national record holder for the heptathlon, the indoor pentathlon, the high jump and the 100 metre! hurdles and on 4 August 2012 she won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2012 London Olympics . Contents 1 Background 2 Athletics career 2.1 Junior competitions and early senior career 2.2 2006 2.3 2007 2.4 2008 2.5 2009 2.6 2010 2.7 2011 2.8 2012 3 Competition record 3.1 2007 World Championships 3.2 2009 World Championships 3.3 2010 World Indoor Championships 3.4 2010 European Championships 3.5 2011 World Championships 3.6 2012 World Indoor Championships 3.7 2012 Olympic Games 4 Personal bests 5 References and notes 6 External links [edit] Background Born in Sheffield, Ennis is one of two daughters born to Vinnie Ennis and Alison Powell,[3] and has a younger sister named Carmel Ennis.[3] Her father, originally from Jamaica,[4] is a self-employed painter and decorator;[3] her mother, a social worker, was born in Derbyshire.[5] Neither of her parents were particularly athletic, but her father did some sprinting at school whilst her mother favoured the high j! ump.[4] They introduced her to athletics by taking her to a 'S! tart:Track' event at Sheffield's Don Valley Stadium during the 1996 school summer holidays.[6] In later years she joked that her parents took her to the event because "I think my mum and dad wanted me out of the house!"[7] She won her first athletics prize there – a pair of trainers. More importantly, it was there that she met the man who was to become her coach, Toni Minichiello.[8] She took to the sport immediately and joined the City of Sheffield Athletic Club the following year, aged eleven.[9] In November 2000, aged fourteen, she won the Sheffield Federation for School Sports Whitham Award for the best performance by a Sheffield athlete at the National Schools Championships, where she won the high jump competition.[10] Growing up in the Highfield area of Sheffield,[11] Ennis attended Sharrow Primary School and King Ecgbert School in Dore, where she did the GCSE and stayed on in the sixth form to gain three A-Levels,[3] before going on to study psychology at the Unive! rsity of Sheffield and graduating in 2007 with a 2:2.[3] Ennis lives in Sheffield and has a pet Labrador.[12][13][14] She got engaged to long-term boyfriend Andy Hill on Christmas Eve 2010. She is a fan of Sheffield United F.C.[15][16] She writes a column for The Times newspaper and is a patron for businessman Barrie Wells's sports foundation. Ennis is also an Ambassador for the Jaguar Academy of Sport.[17] [edit] Athletics career [edit] Junior competitions and early senior career Ennis took part in athletics from a young age. She competed in the high jump and pentathlon at the English Schools AAA Junior Girls in 1999,[18][19] then won the AAA Girls title in the high jump the following year at the age of fourteen, clearing 1.70 metres.[20] In 2001 she was runner-up at the high jump and heptathlon events in the English Schools AAA Intermediate section and won the high jump in 2002 with a jump of 1.80 metres.[21][22][23] Ennis established herself as one of Britain's! top junior athletes at the AAA U20 Championships in 2003 as she took t! he indoor pentathlon title and outdoor 100 metres hurdles title. Ennis competed at the 2003 World Youth Championships in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada in July and the 2004 World Junior Championships in Grosseto, Italy, but it was her winning performance at the 2005 European Athletics Junior Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania that brought her to the fore. Her first senior championships was the 2005 Universiade, held in İzmir, Turkey, where she won the bronze medal with a new personal best of 5,910 points.[24] One of Ennis's first victories as a senior came in February 2004, when she was eighteen years old. She won the 60 metres hurdles at the Northern Senior Indoor Championships in a time of 8.60 seconds. Two weeks earlier she had won three Northern Junior Indoor Championship titles: the 60 metres sprint, the 60 metres hurdles and the high jump.[25] [edit] 2006 Ennis won a bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia with a ! personal best score of 6,269 points, improving her previous best total by more than 350 points. Her high jump of 1.91 metres would have been enough to take the individual event gold medal. Later in 2006 Ennis improved her personal best with a score of 6,287 points when finishing eighth at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. Ennis produced personal bests in the shot put and the 200 metres. [edit] 2007 Ennis finished sixth in the pentathlon at the 2007 European Indoor Championships, in Birmingham, United Kingdom, improving her personal best score by more than 300 points to 4,716. At the European Under-23 Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, Ennis won a bronze medal in the 100 metres hurdles in a time of 13.09 seconds.[26] At the UK National Championships Ennis won both the 100 metres hurdles and the high jump. In August Ennis finished fourth at the World Championships in Osaka, Japan, behind the winner Carolina Kl! üft, Lyudmyla Blonska and fellow Briton Kelly Sotherton, recording the! fastest times in the three track events, including a personal best of 12.97 seconds in the 100 metres hurdles. Ennis finished second overall in the World Combined Events Challenge, behind the Osaka silver-medallist, Lyudmyla Blonska.[27] In September, Ennis won the inaugural European Athletics Rising Star Award.[28] [edit] 2008 In May 2008 Ennis withdrew from the heptathlon competition at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria after the first day's events citing pain in her right foot. A scan later revealed that Ennis had three stress fractures in her right foot and as a consequence she missed that year's Olympic Games in Beijing and the rest of the 2008 season.[29] [edit] 2009 After a twelve-month lay-off due to injury Ennis returned to competition at the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge in Desenzano del Garda in May, winning the event with a personal best score of 6,587 points, including an 800 metres personal best,[30] whilst also breaking Liliana ! Năstase's 16-year-old meeting record.[31] Ennis's foot injury suffered the previous year meant she had to change her take-off leg in the long jump from right to left. Ennis then won the high jump and 100 metres hurdles at the UK National Championships in Birmingham in July. In August Ennis won the gold medal at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin with a personal best points total of 6,731, 238 points ahead of silver medallist Jennifer Oeser of Germany and Poland's Kamila Chudzik.[1][2] Ennis led the competition from the first event and posted a personal best of 14.14 metres in the shot put, whilst her first day points total of 4,124 points was the third-best first-day heptathlon score ever, behind world record holder Jackie Joyner-Kersee and European record holder Carolina Klüft. To commemorate her victory, Sheffield City Council held a reception for Ennis in the city's Peace Gardens, at which she was presented with a Mulberry designer handbag and! a canteen of Sheffield cutlery. In December 2009, Ennis won the "Sport! swoman of the Year" award from the (British) Sports Journalists' Association, as well as being voted "Sportswoman of the Year" at the Ultimate Woman of the Year Awards organised by Cosmopolitan magazine. Ennis also came third in the 2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year, behind Formula One world champion Jenson Button and winner Ryan Giggs of Manchester United F.C.. [edit] 2010 At the start of 2010 Ennis caused a surprise when winning the 60 metres hurdles ahead of American world indoor champion Lolo Jones at a five-team international meeting in Glasgow winning in a British record time of 7.95 seconds, two hundredths of a second ahead of Jones.[32] Afterwards Jones expressed shock at being beaten by a multi-eventer, saying; "I'm looking forward to getting smooth again and not letting heptathletes, who practise every event, beat me when I'm only working on one thing. That's kind of crazy."[33] At the same meeting Ennis set a new indoor personal best in the ! high jump of 1.94 metres.[34][35] Jessica Ennis with Double World Championship Award At the World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar, Ennis became the World Indoor Champion for the pentathlon with a new British Record, Commonwealth Record and Championship Record score of 4,937 points, finishing ahead of all three Beijing heptathlon medal winners, Nataliya Dobrynska, Hyleas Fountain and Tatyana Chernova. As a consequence Ennis became the first British woman to win world titles both indoors and outdoors.[36][37] In May Ennis returned to the 2010 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria, where she injured her ankle in 2008, winning the heptathlon with 6,689 points.[38] Ennis won the heptathlon gold medal at the 2010 European Championships with a personal best and European Championship Record s
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