Jessica Ennis
MBE
Jessica Ennis at the Yorkshire Track and Field Championships in 2010. |
| Personal information |
| Born |
(1986-01-28) 28 January 1986 (age 26)[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 6,906 points[1]
Pentathlon 4,937 points[1] |
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| Updated on 2 September 2010. |
Jessica Ennis, MBE (born 28 January 1986 in Sheffield) is an English 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 former world indoor pentathlon champion. She is the current British national record holder for both the heptathlon and the indoor pentathlon.
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 Sharrow Primary School and 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. Ennis is also an Ambassador for the Jaguar Academy of Sport.[17] She has been involved in advertising campaigns for Aviva, Powerade, BP, Adidas, Omega watches and Olay 'Essentials'.
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 metres sprint, the 60 metre hurdles and the high jump.[18]
Below is a summary of Ennis's early performances:
- 1999 – 10th, English Schools AAA Junior Girls high jump (1.55 metres)[19]; 15th, English Schools AAA Junior Girls pentathlon (2,591 points)[20];
- 2001 – 2nd, English Schools AAA U17 Indoor Championships 60 metre hurdles; 2nd, English Schools AAA Intermediate Girls high jump (1.71 metres) at Exeter[22]; 2nd, English Schools AAA Intermediate Girls heptathlon (4,538 points)[23];
- 2002 – 1st, English Schools AAA Intermediate Girls high jump (1.80 metres, beating Emma Perkins in a jump-off) at Harvey Haddon Stadium, Nottingham[24]
- 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[25]
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 m 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."[26]
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.
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 a time of 13.09 seconds, behind winner Nevin Yanit of Turkey and silver medallist Christina Vukicevic of Norway.[27]
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.[28]
In September, Ennis won the inaugural European Athletics Rising Star Award.[29]
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.[30] 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."[31]
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."
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 [32] whilst also breaking Liliana Năstase's 16-year-old meet record in the process.[33] 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. 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."
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." [34]
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..
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.[35] 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." At the same meeting Ennis set a new indoor personal best in the High Jump of 1.94 metres.[37][38]
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. Ennis's victory meant that she became the first British woman to win world titles both indoors and outdoors.[39][40]
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.[41]
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.[42] 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.
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 [43] recording a personal best in the javelin of 46.71m. This time Ennis's parents were present to see her triumph.
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.[44] 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 for the IAAF Female Athlete of the Year.,[45] an award won by Croatian high jumper Blanka Vlasic.[46] 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.[47]
In 2010 Ennis was awarded a D.Litt Honorary degree from the University of Sheffield for her contribution to sport.[48] 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 the same year, Ennis also received the award for "Most Inspirational Sportswoman of the Year" at the 2010 Jaguar Academy of Sport Annual Awards.[49]
In Ennis's first competition in 2011 she set an indoor personal best of 14.11 metres in the shot put[50][51] a record she improved by 50 centimetres a week later at an indoor meeting in Loughborough.[52] 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 Lolo Jones for a second time.[53]
At the Aviva Indoor UK Trials and Championships in Sheffield Ennis pulled out of the high jump, and the rest of the meeting, after clearing 1.88 metres citing "tightness" in her ankle.[54][55] The injury together with Ennis's focus on the outdoor world championships later in 2011 caused her to also withdraw from the 2011 European Indoor Championships.[56] The injury was diagnosed as inflammation of the plantaris muscle.
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 personal best beating Russia's Tatyana Chernova by 251 points. Ennis recorded personal best times in the 200 metres (23.11 seconds) and the 800 metres (2 minutes 8.46 seconds).[57]
Ennis competed 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.[58]
Ennis's last competition before the World Championships in Daegu was 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.[59]
Ennis during the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu
At the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea, Ennis finished second to Tatyana Chernova with a score of 6,751 points, 129 points behind Chernova and 72 points below her own personal best of 6,823 points. Although Ennis beat Chernova in five of the seven events, her defeat was largely due to Chernova scoring 251 more points in the javelin (52.95 metres compared to Ennis's best throw of 39.95 metres). Ennis did register personal bests of 14.67 metres in the shot put and 2 minutes 7.81 seconds in the 800m whilst also equalling her best of 6.61 metres in the long jump.'
In January 2011 Ennis was one of six women nominated for the 2011 Laureus World Sports Awards.[61] She was selected as European Athlete of the Month for January 2011[62] and in June 2011 she was voted Sportswoman of the Year by Glamour magazine.[63] 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.[64] 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.[65]
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.[66]
Ennis was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to athletics.[67][68]
In October Ennis was voted Athlete of the Year for the third time by the British Athletic Writers' Association.[69]
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.[70]
Ennis opened her 2012 season at the Northern Athletics Senior Indoor Championships at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield in mid-January. She competed in the shot put, which she won with a distance of 13.95 metres. Three weeks later, at the same venue, Ennis was a member of the 'Sheffield Flames' team that won the McCain Indoor City Challenge. She won the 60 metres hurdles in 8.05 seconds and was second in the long jump with 6.19 metres. Again at the English Institute of Sport at the beginning of February, Ennis participated in the Aviva UK Trials and Championships. She won the high jump competition, clearing 1.91 metres, and finished sixth in the shot put, with a best throw of 14.09 metres. The following day Ennis won the 60 metres hurdles in an equal personal best time of 7.95 seconds.[71] Ennis continued her good start to the year by recording two indoor personal bests at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham on 18 February; 7.87 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles and 6.47 metres in the long jump.[72]
The IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships took place in Istanbul, Turkey, in March 2012, at which Ennis was defending the world pentathlon title she won in Doha, Qatar, two years earlier. She began the competition well, recording a time of 7.91 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles (1,150 points), 86 points ahead of Tatyana Chernova. Ennis cleared 1.87 metres in the high jump, sufficient only for third place behind Austra Skujyte and Yana Maksimava, who both jumped 1.90 metres. Chernova cleared 1.84 metres. Ennis's lead was now 109 points over Skujyte and 124 points over Chernova. Ennis then threw a personal best in the third round of the shot put (14.79 metres) to retain the lead over Skujyte, who now trailed by just ten points, with Nataliya Dobrynska a further nineteen points behind. A poor performance in the long jump, with a best of just 6.19 metres, left Ennis in third place with one event remaining, six points behind Skujyte and 93 points behind Dobrynska. Ennis needed to beat the Ukrainian by around 6.5 seconds in the 800 metres to take the gold medal but despite winning the race in 2:08.09 and accumulating a personal best and national record 4,965 points, Dobrynska's performance was enough to give her first place overall, with a world record score of 5,013 points. Skujyte took the bronze medal with 4,802 points. At first the stadium scoreboard showed Ennis as the victor, but her celebration was short-lived as the correct result was given moments later. Ennis' time in the 60 metres hurdles would have gained her the silver medal in the individual event.[73]
Ennis' first outdoor appearance of the season came at RAF Cosford in late April, where she threw the javelin 45.66 metres. In mid May Ennis entered two events at the Yorkshire Athletics Championships at Cudworth, near Barnsley, winning the senior titles in both the shot put and the javelin. She threw 14.33 metres in the shot put and 44.13 metres in the javelin. Instead of the world-class athletes she normally has as competition, in the shot put Ennis found herself up against 69-year-old Sheila Bolland of Spenborough and District Athletics Club. The veteran achieved 5.09 metres and afterwards commented: "I just like to show people you don't have to be good to enjoy competing. And I got to compete against Jess. She's such a lovely, down-to-earth personality."[74][75]
The following week Ennis believed she had improved her personal best time in the 100 metres hurdles, recording 12.75 seconds in the Powerade Great City Games in Manchester, on a specially constructed track on Deansgate in the city centre. In winning the race she beat 2008 Olympic gold medallist Dawn Harper and 2011 World Championship siver medallist Danielle Carruthers. However, officials later realised that only nine hurdles had been set up instead of the regulation ten so the record did not stand. She said: "It's a great event but that's a massive, massive mess-up. I feel let down."[76]
Ennis broke Denise Lewis's long-standing British heptathlon record at the Hypo Meeting in Götzis, Austria on the last weekend in May, recording a total of 6,906 points. She accumulated her second-best first-day total with 4,113 points to lead Austra Skujyte by 221 points and Tatyana Chernova by a further eight points. Her performances included a personal best of 22.88 seconds in the 200 metres, the final event of the day. Ennis began the day by recording 12.81 seconds in the 100 metres hurdles and followed up with a disappointing 1.85 metres in the high jump. In the third event, the shot put, Ennis threw 14.51 metres. On the second day of the competition, Ennis jumped 6.51 metres to win the long jump to equal her personal best. This extended her lead to 251 points, now over Chernova. Ennis then achieved a personal best performance in the javelin, with a distance of 47.11 metres. Chernova threw 53.21 metres, but Ennis's lead still stood at 133 points going into the final event, the 800 metres. Ennis finished second in the 800 metres, 0.06 seconds behind Chernova, but her time of 2:09:00 was enough to win the competition, beating Chernova by 132 points and setting a new British record mark.[77]
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Event |
Result |
Position |
Points |
Overall |
Notes |
| 60 metre hurdles |
7.91 secs |
1st |
1,150 |
1st |
(1,150) 86 points ahead of Tatyana Chernova |
| High jump |
1.87 m |
3rd |
1,067 |
1st |
(2,217) 109 points ahead of Austra Skujyte |
| Shot put |
14.79 m |
4th |
847 |
1st |
(3,064) 10 points ahead of Austra Skujyte (personal best) |
| Long jump |
6.19 m |
7th |
908 |
3rd |
(3,972) 6 points behind Austra Skujyte, 93 points behind Nataliya Dobrynska |
| 800 metres |
2:08.09 secs |
1st |
993 |
2nd |
(4,965) 48 points behind Nataliya Dobrynska (indoor personal best) |
| Pentathlon |
|
|
4,965 |
2nd |
Silver medal, with her personal best career points total and national record |
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,[78] it also meant that she became the joint British women's high jump record holder.[79]
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 the British all-time leader for the heptathlon with 6,906 points, breaking Olympic gold-medallist Denise Lewis's previous record of 6,831 points. If Ennis managed to equal all of her personal bests in one heptathlon competition, she would achieve a total of 7,068 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 |
1,156 |
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.[79] |
| Shot put |
14.67 m[1] |
839 |
Daegu, South Korea |
29 August 2011 |
|
| 200 metres |
22.88secs |
1,091 |
Götzis, Austria |
26 May 2012 |
|
| Long jump |
6.51 m[80] |
1,010 |
New York, United States & Daegu, South Korea & Götzis, Austria |
12 June 2010, 30 August 2011 & 27 May 2012 |
|
| Javelin |
47.11 m |
804 |
Götzis, Austria |
27 May 2012 |
|
| 800 metres |
2:07.81[80] |
997 |
Daegu, South Korea |
30 August 2011 |
|
| Heptathlon |
6,906 pts[1] |
7,068 (potential) |
Götzis, Austria |
27 May 2012 |
British record, Commonwealth Record |
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| Persondata |
| Name |
Ennis, Jessica |
| Alternative names |
|
| Short description |
British heptathlete |
| Date of birth |
28 January 1986 |
| Place of birth |
Sheffield, England |
| Date of death |
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| Place of death |
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