Jessica Ennis

Jessica Ennis
Jessica Ennis
MBE

Jessica Ennis at the Yorkshire Track and Field Championships 2010.
Personal information
Born 28 January 1986 (1986-01-28) (age 25)[1]
Sheffield, England[1]
Height 1.65 metres (5 ft 5 in)[1]
Weight 57 kilograms (130 lb)[1]
Sport
Country England
Club City of Sheffield Athletic Club
Turned pro 2005
Achievements and titles
World finals 2007 — 4th
2009 — 1st
2011 — 2nd
Highest world ranking Heptathlon: 1 (2009, 2010, 2011)
Personal best(s)

Heptathlon 6,823 points[1]

Pentathlon 4,937 points[1]
Medal record
Women's athletics
Competitor for  Great Britain
World Championships
Gold 2009 Berlin Heptathlon
Silver 2011 Daegu Heptathlon
World Indoor Championships
Gold 2010 Doha Pentathlon
European Championships
Gold 2010 Barcelona Heptathlon
Summer Universiade
Bronze 2005 Izmir Heptathlon
Competitor for  England
Commonwealth Games
Bronze 2006 Melbourne Heptathlon
Updated on 2 September 2010.

Jessica Ennis, MBE (born 28 January 1986 in Sheffield) 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 current European and former World heptathlon champion[2] and is the current world indoor pentathlon champion.[2]

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Background

One of two daughters born to Vinnie Ennis and Alison Powell,[3] Jessica Ennis has a younger sister called Carmel.[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 jump.[4] They introduced her to athletics by taking her to a 'Start: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 King Ecgbert School in Dore, where she sat her GCSEs and stayed on in the sixth form to gain three A-Levels,[3] before going on to study Psychology at the University of Sheffield, graduating in 2007 with a 2:2.[3]

Ennis lives in Sheffield with her chocolate Labrador Myla.[12][13][14] She got engaged to long-term boyfriend Andy Hill on Christmas Eve 2010. She is a fan of Sheffield United.[15][16]

She writes a column for The Times newspaper, and is a patron for businessman Barrie Wells's sports foundation. She has been involved in advertising campaigns for Aviva, Powerade, BP and Adidas.

Athletics career

Junior competitions and early senior career

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.

One of Ennis's first victories as a senior came in February 2004, when she was eighteen years old. She won the 60 metre 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 metre sprint, the 60 metre hurdles and the high jump.[17]

Below is a summary of Ennis's early successes:

2000 – 1st AAA U15 Championships pentathlon and 75 metre hurdles

2001 – 2nd AAA U17 Indoor Championships 60 metre hurdles

2003 – 1st AAA U20 Indoor Championships pentathlon, 1st AAA U20 Championships 100 metre hurdles

2004 – 8th World Junior Championships heptathlon

2005 – 1st European Junior Championships heptathlon, 3rd World University Games heptathlon, 1st AAA Indoor Championships pentathlon, 3rd AAA Championships 100 metre hurdles[18]

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 leap of 1.91m high jump would have been enough to take the individual event gold medal. Before the Games she didn't think she would do so well, saying, "I don't think I will win a medal, to be honest, but I am just hoping to score over 6,000 points."[19]

Later in 2006 Ennis improved her personal best with a score of 6,287 points at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. This was only sufficient for her to finish eighth, three points behind fellow British heptathlete Kelly Sotherton, after being third at the end of the first day. Ennis produced personal bests in the shot put and the 200 metres.

2007

Ennis finished sixth in the pentathlon at the 2007 European Indoor Championships, in Birmingham improving her personal best score by more than 300 points to 4,716.

In July Ennis competed in the 100 metre hurdles at the European Under-23 Championships in Debrecen, Hungary winning a bronze medal in time of 13.09 seconds, behind winner Nevin Yanit of Turkey and silver medallist Christina Vukicevic of Norway.[20]

At the British National Championships, and World Trials, Ennis won the 100 metre hurdles beating specialists, such as defending champion Sarah Claxton, as well as rival Kelly Sotherton and also the high jump.

In August Ennis finished fourth at the World Championships in Osaka, Japan, behind the winner Carolina Klüft, Lyudmyla Blonska and fellow Briton Kelly Sotherton despite recording the fastest times in the three track events including a personal best of 12.97 seconds in the 100 metre hurdles. At the end of the first day's events, BBC Television athletics commentator Paul Dickenson remarked that Ennis's performance was "the sign of a champion for the future". At the conclusion of the competition, Sotherton told BBC Television trackside interviewer Phil Jones: "She's the future, so everyone better watch out."

Ennis also went on to finish second overall in the World Combined Events Challenge this season, behind the Osaka silver-medallist, Lyudmyla Blonska.[21]

In September, Ennis won the inaugural European Athletics Rising Star Award.[22]

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 would not be able to compete in the forthcoming Olympic Games in Beijing.[23] The injury was diagnosed as stress fractures of the navicular and a metatarsal.

She wrote in her column in The Times: "I was second after the first day, but the vague niggle I'd had beforehand was getting worse. It got really bad in the high jump, the second event of the day, and I think the damage started then. I had some treatment, felt fine and then set a personal best in the shot. In the 200 metres I think the adrenalin masked the pain, but in the home straight I felt I was going backwards. I struggled to push off and when I finished I couldn't walk."[24]

Two years later Ennis told BBC Television presenter Hazel Irvine that she feared for her career. She said, "I was told by the UK Athletics doctor that this was a career-threatening injury. At that point my heart absolutely sunk and I was worrying that it would be the end of my career at the age of 22."

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 [25] whilst also breaking Liliana Năstase's 16-year-old meet record in the process.[26] Notably Ennis's foot injury the previous year meant that she had to change her take-off leg in the long jump from right to left, a switch that she described as feeling "alien at the start" comparing it to changing her writing hand.

Ennis' next competition was at the McCain Loughborough International meeting later in May where she competed as a guest in the long jump, in which she came second with 6.07 metres, and the 100 metre hurdles, which she won in 12.93 seconds. She then won the high jump and 100 metre hurdles at the national championships in Birmingham in July, with 1.91 metres and 12.87 seconds respectively.

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. Ennis's overnight lead of 307 points was reduced but never threatened. She set off at a rapid pace in the 800 metres and although overtaken by Nataliya Dobrynska on the final bend she regained the lead to win in 2 minutes 12.22 seconds. Ennis's room-mate and fellow heptathlete Louise Hazel revealed that Ennis had been reading Fern Britton's autobiography to take her mind off being Britain's top medal hope.[27] Ennis's parents weren't in Berlin to see her triumph as they had bought non-refundable tickets to Beijing a year earlier and, as Ennis said, "it was difficult for them to come out here financially." Ennis’s lap of honour, which in the heptathlon is traditionally shared with all the other competitors, could not be completed as the athletes competing in the men's 100 metres final were preparing for their race, in which Usain Bolt broke the world record with a time of 9.58 seconds. After her victory UK Athletics head coach Charles Van Commenee said; "She is cool, calm and collected and that is her special quality. She is not affected by the opposition or the occasion and there is room for improvement."

Ennis made one final track appearance in 2009, at the Aviva Grand Prix in Gateshead at the end of August, coming fifth in the 100 metre hurdles in 13.28 seconds.

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. Council leader Paul Scriven said, "This is from the 530,000 people of Sheffield – this is our prize to you, our golden girl, our special champion." [28]

In November 2009 it was reported that Ennis had not yet claimed her $36,000 prize for winning in Berlin. She said, "I actually forgot about it, to be honest - you have to fill out a form while you're out there, but I forgot. Yeah, I've got to chase that up."[29]

In December 2009, Ennis won the "Sportswoman 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 second-placed Formula One world champion Jensen Button and winner Ryan Giggs of Manchester United F.C..

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.[30] 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."[31] At the same meeting Ennis set a new indoor personal best in the High Jump of 1.94 metres.[32][33]

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, with a score of 4,937 points, finishing ahead of all three Beijing heptathlon medal winners, Nataliya Dobrynska, Hyleas Fountain and Tatyana Chernova. Dobrynska was second with 4,851 points, Chernova third with 4,762 points and Fountain fourth with 4,753 points. Ennis's victory meant that she became the first British woman to win world titles both indoors and outdoors.[34][35] Her preparation for the event was hampered by another foot injury, much less serious than the one she suffered in 2008. Following her victory she said; "Winning the worlds and then competing here against everybody who was in Berlin, apart from Kelly Sotherton, was really special. It has really boosted my confidence knowing I came here having had another foot injury and still managed to beat people who won medals in Beijing. The injury was always at the back of my mind and I was always a little bit worried about it."[36]

In May Ennis won the 150 metre race in 16.99 seconds on a specially constructed straight track along Deansgate in Manchester city centre beating World and Olympic 400 metre champion Christine Ohurougu into third place.[37] Later in May Ennis competed in three events at the Loughborough International meeting. She ran 12.85 seconds in the 100 metre hurdles and cleared 1.93 metres in the high jump but failed in her attempt to set a new British record of 1.96 metres. She was below her best in the javelin, throwing 43.83 metres.

At the end of May Ennis returned to the 2010 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis where she injured her ankle in 2008 winning the heptathlon with 6,689 points.[38] She said her victory got rid of "all the demons from last time", referring to the foot injury suffered at the same event two years earlier that forced her to miss the Beijing Olympics.

The Adidas Grand Prix Diamond League meeting in New York in June saw Ennis in a one-off contest over three events against Hyleas Fountain. She won two of the three events, setting a personal best of 6.51 metres in the long jump, but lost by 15 points overall.[39] She ran the 100 metres hurdles in 12.85 seconds, her second-fastest time ever, and recorded a below-par 13.61 metres in the shot put.

Ennis's training was interrupted in June due to a virus that affected her balance, preventing her from doing any work at all for two weeks. It forced her to miss the combined UK Championships/European Trials in Birmingham. She said; "I was dizzy all the time. I had to stay in bed for two weeks because I couldn't move. All I did was watch TV all day and try to get better."[40] She returned to action at the Aviva Grand Prix in Gateshead in mid July, competing in the 200 metres and javelin. She ran a disappointing 23.55 seconds in the 200 metres, but registered 46.15 metres in the javelin, close to her personal best.

Ennis won the heptathlon gold medal at the 2010 European Championships with a personal best and European Championship Record score of 6,823 points, just eight points short of Denise Lewis's British and Commonwealth Records [41] recording a personal best in the javelin of 46.71m. Ennis had led from the start of the competition but going into the final event, the 800 metres, she led Nataliya Dobrynska by only 18 points. Dobrynska had to beat Ennis by 2.2 seconds to take the title. Ennis led from the gun but with 250 metres to go Dobrynska went past her. Ennis responded immediately and sprinted to victory in 2 minutes 10.18 seconds to win the gold medal. Dobrynska finished second, 45 points behind Ennis, with Jennifer Oeser third. This time Ennis's parents were present to see her triumph.

After her victory Ennis recognised the challenge she had faced to overcome 2008 Olympic gold medallist Dobrynska. Ennis said: "It was really tough, completely different to last year and I'm happy to have handled the pressure and come out on top. At any point it could have completely changed. There was a lot of pressure because the girls were performing so well and I've been pushed all the way. I had to raise my game at every level."[42] Dobrynska later declared that Ennis "has no weaknesses" but Ennis disagreed: "Everyone has a weakness. I'm expecting to be challenged [in the future] and things don't always go your way so I'm fully prepared for that."[43] Dobrynska sounded her own warning: "Yes, Jessica is a great athlete but I know my reserve. What if I had managed to do the shot put in Barcelona as I can do, at least 50cm further? These are the eighty points which in the end I lacked to win."[44]

Ennis decided not to compete in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.

Ennis was voted European Athlete of the Month three times in 2010, winning the award in January, March and May.[45] She was nominated for a Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year after she came back from injury to become world champion in 2009, the award eventually being won by Belgian tennis player Kim Clijsters. Ennis was nominated as on the shortlist of fiver for the IAAF Female Athlete of the Year.,[46] an award won by Croatian high jumper Blanka Vlasic.[47] Also in November Ennis was voted the "Ultimate Sports Star" at the Ultimate Woman of the Year Awards organised by Cosmopolitan magazine in London, the second consecutive year she had won this award. A few days later Ennis was voted the "Outstanding Female Athlete" at the Commonwealth Sports Awards in Birmingham, despite not competing in the Delhi Commonwealth Games. The awards nominations continued to flow: Ennis was shortlisted for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year title for the second year running, and also for the Sunday Times "Sportswoman of the Year". She was unanimously voted (female) "British Athlete of the Year" by the British Athletics Writers' Association and was named the Sports Journalists' Association's "Sportswoman of the Year", both titles for the second consecutive year. Ennis came third for the second year in succession in the vote for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, polling just over 9% of the votes. The runaway winner was jump jockey Tony McCoy, with darts player Phil Taylor pipping Jessica for second place.[48]

In 2010 Ennis was chosen to receive a D.Litt Honorary degree from the University of Sheffield for her excellent contribution to sport.[49] She was the 2010 recipient of the prestigious Dame Marea Hartman Award awarded annually to the English female athlete who is adjudged to have been the outstanding athlete of the year. Others to have received this award include Christine Ohuruogu and Becky Lyne.

In August 2010 Ennis was put forward as a role model for young students - at a California high school. The incoming class of teenagers at the Silicon Valley city's Presentation High School were asked by Pete Campbell, a columnist for the San Jose on-line publication sanjoseinside.com: "How many of you know who Jessica Ennis is? Jessica Ennis is an international track star. Earlier this summer, she won the gold medal in the Heptathlon at the European Championships. Last year, she also took gold at the World Championships. Jessica Ennis is arguably the world’s greatest female athlete. This young woman can fly…and throw…and jump…etc. She’s Wonder Woman." [50]

2011

Ennis's first competition of 2011 was the Northern Athletics Senior Indoor Championships at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield in mid January. She competed in the shot put, in which she finished second with an indoor personal best of 14.11 metres, the 60 metres hurdles, which she won in a time of 8.15 seconds, and the 60 metres sprint. She won her heat in 7.44 seconds but did not participate in the final as a precaution after she felt a 'twinge' in her knee.[51][52] Ennis's shot put personal best lasted only a week as she bettered it by 50 centimetres at an indoor meeting in Loughborough. The same day she recorded 6.16 metres in the long jump and 8.03 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles.[53] On 29 January Ennis captained the British team at the Aviva international meeting in Glasgow. She competed in the 60 metres hurdles and won in a time of 7.97 seconds, beating renowned American sprint hurdler Lolo Jones for the second time. During the race Jones hit a hurdle and was never in contention to win. Ennis also competed in the long jump, where she came third, jumping a distance of 6.38 metres, one centimetre behind her indoor personal best. She improved her distance with each jump in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth rounds.[54]

The Aviva Indoor UK Trials and Championships were held at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield over the weekend of 12/13 February 2011. Ennis intended to compete in four events - two each day. On the first day she won the high jump with a height of 1.88 metres and finished seventh in the shot put, throwing a below-par 13.86 metres. After two high jump failures at 1.91 metres, Ennis declined her third attempt as she felt "tightness" in her ankle and withdrew from the following day's long jump and 60 metres hurdles.[55][56] The injury was serious enough for her to pull out of the following week's Aviva Grand Prix meeting in Birmingham and also the European Indoor Championships held in Paris in early March. She said; "I cannot take this risk. The World Championships has to be my priority."[57] The injury was diagnosed as inflammation of the plantaris muscle. In Paris the pentathlon was won by Frenchwoman Antoinette Nana Djimou with a total more than 200 points fewer than Ennis's score at the World Indoor Championships a year earlier.

Ennis's first outdoor appearance of 2011 was in the Great City Games of Manchester on 15 May. On a track laid on the city's Deansgate thoroughfare she competed in the 100 metres hurdles, in which she came third in a time of 12.88 seconds, and the straight 150 metres sprint, in which she came second in 17.40 seconds. The following week she competed in two events at the Loughborough International Meeting. In windy conditions she won the high jump competition with 1.86 metres and finished sixth in the javelin, throwing 44.49 metres.

On the final weekend in May Ennis won the heptathlon at the 2011 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria, for the second consecutive year, recording 6,790 points, 101 more than in 2010 and just 33 points below her best ever. She beat Russia's Tatyana Chernova by 251 points. Her first day total of 4097 points gave her a chance of beating Denise Lewis's British record, but her performances in the long jump and javelin were below her best. However, she recorded personal best times in the 200 metres (23.11 seconds) and the 800 metres (2 minutes 8.46 seconds).[58] Afterwards Ennis said: "I had about six weeks to prepare and that's about the bare minimum you'd need. I didn't want to come and produce a poor score and send out the wrong message with the World Championships this year. It was a bit of a gamble but as I started training I was in quite good shape and running well so I knew I could get myself in reasonably good shape and the gamble paid off."[59]

Ennis next competed in two events at the Diamond League meeting at Randall's Island, New York, but she struggled in the face of a strong headwind and rain. She jumped 6.03 metres in the long jump and ran 13.27 seconds in the 100 metres hurdles. The following weekend Ennis took part in the Northern Athletics Outdoor Championships in Manchester, winning the long jump with 6.24 metres and finishing second in the javelin with a throw of 44.81 metres.

In mid July Ennis announced that she was to compete in five individual events at the Aviva UK Trials and Championships at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham: the 100 metres hurdles, the high jump, the long jump, the shot put and the javelin. She equalled her outdoor personal best in the shot put (14.25 metres), jumped a season's best in the long jump (6.44 metres), won the national high jump title for the second time (1,89 metres) and finished second behind new British record holder Tiffany Porter in the 100 metres hurdles (12.96 seconds). In the final event she threw 42.93 metres in the javelin competition.[60] Ennis's last competition before the World Championships in Daegu was a low-key midweek event at Loughborough, where she recorded a personal best 12.79 seconds in the 100 metres hurdles to place her second on the British all-time list.[61]

Ennis during the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu

At the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea, Ennis was in the unusual position of not being in the lead after the first event, the 100 metres hurdles, her time of 12.94 seconds leaving her two points behind Hyleas Fountain. Fountain increased her lead to 41 points after the high jump, Ennis clearing only 1.86 metres. A personal best throw of 14.67 metres in the shot put gave Ennis the lead in the competition, a lead she increased after the 200 metres, which she ran in a time of 23.27 seconds. Her first-day total of 4,078 points was two points fewer than at the same stage of the 2010 European Championships and 46 fewer than in the 2009 World Championships. She led Tatyana Chernova by 151 points. On Day Two, Chernova reduced Ennis's lead by jumping 6.61 metres in the long jump, but Ennis responded by matching her personal best of 6.51 metres to limit the damage, now holding a lead of 118 points. Ennis's hopes of retaining her title received a severe setback with a poor effort of just 39.95 metres in the javelin, after Chernova had earlier thrown 52.95 metres to take an overall lead of 133 points. Ennis needed to beat Chernova by around nine seconds in the final event, the 800 metres, and despite recording a personal best time of 2 minutes 7.81 seconds it was not enough to overcome the deficit, as Chernova finished under one second behind, taking the title by 129 points. Chernova's score of 6880 points was 49 points higher than Denise Lewis's British record and 57 points higher than Ennis's best total. Afterwards, Ennis's coach Toni Minichiello pointed out that his athlete 'beat Chernova in five events, but just got heavily beaten in the javelin. That's the difference.' Ennis remarked: 'I don't want to analyse it too much. I think it was just one of those days where it just didn't come together. The event is always going to improve year upon year. It was a brilliant score by Chernova, she performed really well. I think I performed well, I've had some solid performances, some PBs, so I can take positives away from that and work on the javelin.'[62]

In January 2011 Ennis was one of six women nominated for the 2011 Laureus World Sports Awards.[63] She was selected as European Athlete of the Month for January 2011[64] and in June 2011 she was voted Sportswoman of the Year by Glamour magazine.[65] Later the same month Ennis was inducted into the Sheffield Legends 'Walk of Fame', alongside other well-known people born in or connected with Sheffield who are honoured by plaques set in the pavement outside the Town Hall.[66] The following month Ennis became part-owner of a two-year-old throroughbred racehorse that shares her name. The grey filly, bought by John Warren for Highclere Thoroughbred Racing for 82,000 guineas, is trained by Michael Bell. However, a few days later the horse was injured in a training accident when it bolted whilst undergoing stalls schooling, ran into a road and was hit by a car.[67]

A lifesize representation of Ennis in wax was unveiled at Madame Tussaud's in London in late July. The model shows Ennis in celebratory pose holding a Union Flag.[68]

Ennis was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to athletics.[69][70]

In October Ennis was voted Athlete of the Year for the third time by the British Athletic Writers' Association, beating Hannah England by two votes.[71]

Ennis featured in the December 2011 issue of British Vogue magazine as part of its People To Celebrate feature and also appeared in a video of her photoshoot for the magazine.[72]

Competition record

SJA Award

2007 World Championships

Event Result Position Points Overall Notes
100 metre hurdles 12.97 secs 1st 1,129 1st (1,129) Beat Carolina Klüft (2nd, PB) and Kelly Sotherton (3rd, PB) in her heat
High jump 1.89 m 3rd 1,093 2nd (2,222) Carolina Klüft won with a jump of 1.95 m (PB)
Shot put 11.93 m 34th 656 4th (2,878) Dropped from 2nd to 4th in overall points standings
200 metres 23.15 secs 1st 1,064 4th (3,942) Beat Klüft (2nd, SB) and Sotherton (3rd, PB) in her heat
Long jump 6.33 m 9th 953 4th (4,895)
Javelin 38.07 m 26th 630 5th (5,525)
800 metres 2:11.39 1st 944 4th (6,469) Beat Kelly Sotherton (2nd) in her heat
Heptathlon 6,469 4th

2009 World Championships

Event Result Position Points Overall Notes
100 metre hurdles 12.93 secs 1st 1,135 1st (1,135) Led by 76 points after opening event
High jump 1.92 m 1st 1,132 1st (2,267) Extended lead to 181 points
Shot put 14.14 m 5th 803 1st (3,070) Despite a personal best, her lead was reduced to 148 points
200 metres 23.25 secs 1st 1,054 1st (4,124) 3rd highest points scorer ever after first day of a heptathlon. Led by 307 points.
Long jump 6.29 m 9th 940 1st (5,064) Lead was reduced to 269 points after the fifth event.
Javelin 43.54 m 10th 735 1st (5,799) Lead was reduced to 171 points after penultimate event
800 metres 2:12.22 1st 932 1st (6,731) Increased lead by 67 points to 238 by winning the final heat.
Heptathlon 6,731 1st New World Champion. Beat Jennifer Oeser by 238 points.

2010 World Indoor Championships

Event Result Position Points Overall Notes
60 metre hurdles 8.04 secs 1st 1,120 1st (1,120)
High jump 1.90 m 1st 1,106 1st (2,226)
Shot put 14.01 m 5th 795 1st (3,021) Personal Best
Long jump 6.44 m 3rd 988 1st (4,009) Personal Best
800 metres 2:12.55 2nd 928 1st (4,937) Personal Best
Pentathlon 4,937 1st New World Indoor Champion, new Championship Record

2010 European Championships

Event Result Position Points Overall Notes
100 metre hurdles 12.95 secs 1st 1,132 1st (1,132) Led by 63 points after opening event
High jump 1.89 m 1st 1,093 1st (2,225) Extended lead to 134 points
Shot put 14.05 m 6th 797 1st (3,022) Lead was reduced to 11 points
200 metres 23.21 secs 1st 1,058 1st (4,080) Increased her lead to 110 points
Long jump 6.43 m 4th 985 1st (5,065) Lead was reduced to 68 points
Javelin 46.71 m 8th 796 1st (5,861) Despite a Personal Best her lead was reduced to 18 points
800 metres 2:10.18 1st 962 1st (6,823) Points total of 6,823 was a new Personal Best and European Championship Record.
Heptathlon 6,823 1st New European Champion, New Championship Record Beat Nataliya Dobrynska by 45 points.

2011 World Championships

Event Result Position Points Overall Notes
100 metre hurdles 12.94 secs 2nd 1,133 2nd (1,133) Trailed Hyleas Fountain by 2 points
High jump 1.86 m 2nd 1,054 2nd (2,187) Trailed Hyleas Fountain by 41 points
Shot put 14.67 m 7th 839 1st (3,026) New PB, took lead (over Austra Skujyte) by 12 points
200 metres 23.27 secs 1st 1,052 1st (4,078) Increased lead (now over Tatyana Chernova) to 151 points
Long jump 6.51 m 2nd 1,010 1st (5,088) Matched PB, lead reduced to 118 points
Javelin 39.95 m 21st 666 2nd (5,754) 133 points behind Tatyana Chernova
800 metres 2:07.81 2nd 997 2nd (6,751) New PB, 129 points behind Tatyana Chernova
Heptathlon 6,751 2nd Silver medal, with her 3rd best career points total

Personal bests

By clearing 1.95 metres in the high jump, Ennis achieved a foot (30 cm) above her own height of 1.65 which only ten women have ever managed,[73] it also meant that she became the joint British women's high jump record holder.[74]

Her personal best of 12.79 seconds[1] in the 100 metre hurdles puts her in second place on the British all-time list, with only Tiffany Porter (12.56s) having achieved a better time in the event.

Ennis is currently second on the British all-time list for the Heptathlon with 6,823 points, behind Olympic gold-medallist Denise Lewis (6,831). If Ennis managed to equal all of her personal bests in one heptathlon competition, she would achieve a total of 7,037 points. Lewis's equivalent personal best total would be 6,970 points.

Outdoor Personal Bests

Event Record Points Venue Date Notes
100 metre hurdles 12.79 secs[1] 1,156 Loughborough, England 11 August 2011
High jump 1.95 m[1] 1,171 Desenzano del Garda, Italy 5 May 2007 British record, jointly held with Diana Davies and Susan Moncrieff.[74]
Shot put 14.67 m[1] 839 Daegu, South Korea 29 August 2011
200 metres 23.11 secs[75] 1,068 Götzis, Austria 28 May 2011
Long jump 6.51 m[75] 1,010 New York, United States & Daegu, South Korea 12 June 2010 & 30 August 2011
Javelin 46.71 m[1] 796 Barcelona, Spain 31 July 2010
800 metres 2:07.81[75] 997 Daegu, South Korea 30 August 2011
Heptathlon 6,823 pts[1] 7,037 (potential) Barcelona, Spain 31 July 2010 European Championship Record

Indoor Personal Bests

Event Record Venue Date Notes
60 metres 7.36 secs[1] Sheffield, England 16 January 2010
60 metre hurdles 7.95 secs[1] Glasgow, Scotland 30 January 2010
High Jump 1.94 m[1] Glasgow, Scotland 30 January 2010 Joint 2nd highest ever by a British High jumper indoors.[76]
Shot put 14.61 m[1] Loughborough, England 22 January 2011
Long Jump 6.44 m[1] Doha, Qatar 13 March 2010
800 metres 2:12.55[1] Doha, Qatar 13 March 2010
Pentathlon 4,937 pts[1] Doha, Qatar 13 March 2010 World Indoor Championship Record, British Record, Commonwealth Record

Trivia

Following her performance at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, the name Jessica Ennis became inadvertently embroiled into a now notorious catchphrase. Ortis Deley had struggled during his unfamiliar role as athletics presenter on UK television. Following a morning session, Deley appeared to improvise off script, remarking on "a gloriously sunny day in the studio" and in a moment of confusion saying the words "Jessica Ennis...goodnight" as the programme cut for adverts. In the subsequent days many TV and radio presenters used the phrase to 'sign off', as a way of parody.

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External links

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1983: Ramona Neubert (GDR)  • 1987: Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)  • 1991: Sabine Braun (GER)  • 1993: Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)  • 1995: Ghada Shouaa (SYR)  • 1997: Sabine Braun (GER)  • 1999: Eunice Barber (FRA)  • 2001: Yelena Prokhorova (RUS)  • 2003: Carolina Klüft (SWE)  • 2005: Carolina Klüft (SWE)  • 2007: Carolina Klüft (SWE)  • 2009: Jessica Ennis (GBR)  • 2011: Tatyana Chernova (RUS)
v · d · eEuropean Champions in Women's Heptathlon

1982: Ramona Neubert (GDR)  • 1986: Anke Vater (GDR)  • 1990: Sabine Braun (FRG)  • 1994: Sabine Braun (GER)  • 1998: Denise Lewis (GBR)  • 2002: Carolina Klüft (SWE)  • 2006: Carolina Klüft (SWE)  • 2010: Jessica Ennis (GBR)
v · d · eWorld Indoor Champions in Women's Pentathlon

 1993: Liliana Năstase (ROM)  •  1995: Svetlana Moskalets (RUS)  •  1997: Sabine Braun (GER)  •  1999: DeDee Nathan (USA)  •  2001: Natallia Sazanovich (BLR)  •  2003: Carolina Klüft (SWE)  •  2004: Naide Gomes (POR)  •  2006: Lyudmyla Blonska (UKR)  •  2008: Tia Hellebaut (BEL)  •  2010: Jessica Ennis (GBR)
v · World Best Year Performance in Women's Heptathlon

 1980: Zoya Spasovkhodskaya (URS)  •  1981 – 1983: Ramona Neubert (GDR)  •  1984: Sabine John (GDR)  •  1985 – 1988: Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)  •  1989: Larisa Nikitina (URS)  •  1990 – 1993: Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)  •  1994: Heike Drechsler (GER)  •  1995 – 1996: Ghada Shouaa (SYR)  •  1997: Sabine Braun (GER)  •  1998: Denise Lewis (GBR)  •  1999 – 2001: Eunice Barber (FRA)  •  2002 – 2004: Carolina Klüft (SWE)  •  2005: Eunice Barber (FRA)  •  2006 – 2007: Carolina Klüft (SWE)  •  2008: Nataliya Dobrynska (UKR)  •  2009 – 2010: Jessica Ennis (GBR)

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