Jessica Ennis

Jess Ennis, Gold medal Olympian 2012, World Champion in 2010 and Britsh Record holder 2012 in the heptathlon, World Champion in the pentathlon 2010 and European heptathlon Champion 2010 and the UK’s and a talent who has so much more to come.
As a junior she showed great promise and in 2006, her first year as a senior athlete, she showed she has even greater promise when she won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia.

In 2007 she broke Olympic Champion Denis Lewis’s Under-23 record for heptathlon and equalled the 25yr old British High Jump Record with 1.95m. Her continued success as a senior heptathlete earned her a place on team GB for the 2008 Olympic Games, a dream that was shattered along with her season as a result of three stress fractures in her ankle.

2009 got off to a good start with training going according to plan and a low key competition in the northern Championships showed her recovery is well on track.

She followed this in May 2009 with a stunning return to heptathlon in Desenzano del Garda, where she set a personal best of 6587, placing her third on the British all time heptathlon records. Her season has progressively seen her set personal bests in most disciplines taking her into the World Championships in the form of her life to win the GOLD medal and become World Champion in Berlin, setting a new overall PB of 6731.

At the World Indoors in Doha in March 2010 she added another world title when she won the pentathlon with the 3rd highest ever score for the event – beating the Olympic Gold, Silver and Bronze medallists too.

In July 2010 she went on to add a further gold medal to her tally when she won a tough battle against the Olympic Champion as the European Championships in Barcelone, scoring a personal best and Championship record of 6823 – just 8 points shy of Denise Lewis’ British Record.

In the short-term Ennis is striving to improve her personal bests and challenge the British Heptathlon record, but always in her sights was medals at major championships and in particular at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Jess, a psychology graduate from the University of Sheffield has little time to relax given the rigours of training for seven events, but enjoys just chilling out with friends and loves to shop for clothes.