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Jess Ennis - BiographyWorld Heptathlon Champion 2009 - Gold medalist! 6731 points.

World Indoor Pentathlon Champion 2010 - Gold medalist! 4937 points - a new championship record.

And now... European Champion with
6823 points - a new personal best and new championship record.

Since 2000, Jessica’s progression through the junior and youth competitions has shown that she is a promising talent for the future. At only 24 years old, Jessica has shown immense promise as a multi-eventer and has now cemented herself into the history books as a double World Champion.

2006 was her first season as a senior athlete and true to form she achieved her first senior medal … in her first major championships! A bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne marked the arrival of a new star on the British team where she now ranks as one of the best British heptathletes. Perhaps more impressive, she is now double World Champion after winning the GOLD medals in Berlin 2009 and Doha 2010. In July 2010 she also added the European Championship Gold medal to her ever-growing collection.

In May 2007 Jessica equaled the 25 year old British High Jump record for women by jumping 1.95m. She also broke Denise Lewis' British under-23 record for the heptathlon by scoring 6388 at the IAAF Combined Events Challenge in Dezenzano, Italy. In doing so reached the qualifying standard for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008... and she also scored new personal bests in three of the events!
Since then Jess set a new personal best clocking up 6469 points at the IAAF World Championships held in Osaka, Japan before suffering a cruel injury just before the Olympics. As a result she was unable to compete in Beijing.

Jess made her heptathlon comeback at the 2009 IAAF Combined Events Challenge in Dezenzano, Italy setting another personal best of 6587 to win the event. Her Gold medal in Berlin at the IAAF World Championships resulted in a points score of 6731.

Jessica's wikipedia entry:
Jessica Ennis (born 28 January1986) is a rising star of British athletics, competing in the heptathlon. Her first senior championships was for the English team in the 2006 Commonwealth Games, where she was a surprise bronze medal winner. She is a member of the City of Sheffield Athletic Club, Sheffield also being her home city.

 

 

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