Jon Eley

Jon Eley
Jon Eley at the 2015 World Short Track Championships in Moscow
Full name	Jonathan Eley
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	19th August 1984
place of birth	Solihull
size	186 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
society	Mohawks Ice Racing Club
National squad	since 2002
Pers. Best times	500 m - 41.988 sec 1000 m - 1: 26.28 min 1500 m - 2: 13.87 min
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 × JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 2 × 0 ×
Short track world championships bronze Gangneung 2008 3000 m relay bronze Montreal 2014 3000 m relay  Short track junior world championships bronze Beijing 2004 All-around  European Short Track Championships silver St. Petersburg 2003 3000 m relay silver Ventspils 2008 All-around
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup October 25, 2002  World Cup victories 1  Overall World Cup 8. ( 04/05 )  500 m world cup 2. ( 06/07 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 1 0 0  Relay / team 0 0 2
last change: December 13, 2008

Jon Eley ( Jonathan Eley ; born August 19, 1984 in Solihull ) is a British short tracker .

Eley started for the first time in a major international event in January 2002 at the Junior World Championships in Chuncheon , where he at least advanced over 1500 meters to the semi-finals, but failed there in fifth place. In October of the same year he was used for the first time in the Short Track World Cup , in the 2002/03 season he made it to the finals with the relay and thus a fourth place. The major events of that season were also quite successful for Eley, including winning the silver medal with the relay at the 2003 European Championship . While he had few good results in the World Cup in the 2003/04 season, he achieved two at the 2004 Junior World Championships Podium placements on the individual routes and thus qualification for the all-round final, where he finished fifth. Overall, he won the bronze medal in the individual at this event, but with the relay he was eliminated in the preliminary stages. He also did well at the European Championships in Zoetermeer . At the World Championship, however, he missed the final in every race.

Like the previous ones, the 2004/05 World Cup also ended in individual races without participation in the finals, but thanks to consistently good results, Eley achieved eighth place in the overall World Cup and ninth in the 500-meter discipline World Cup. Without reaching the finals, but at least with reaching the 500-meter semi-final at the World Cup, he ended the major events in 2005. At the second World Cup station of the 2005/06 season, Eley achieved fourth place in the 500-meter sprint distance, after which he was able to do this No more repeating the surprising success and ultimately placed twelfth in the overall World Cup. He also performed well at the 2006 European Championships . Eley he was nominated as one of four British short trackers for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . There he ran the 1000 and 500 meters , over the latter distance he won the B final and thus came fifth.

In the 2006/07 season, Eley surprisingly even won a World Cup race on the 500 meter course in Heerenveen , although many of the favorites did not start that World Cup. Also in Heerenveen, Eley placed fifth over 1000 meters. Thanks to his consistently good results, he achieved second place overall in the 500-meter World Cup. The major events in 2007, however, were relatively unsuccessful and he did not participate in the finals. During the 2007/08 World Cup , Eley finally established himself at the top of the world after finishing seventh in the World Cup with another podium over 500 meters. Also with the season he reached a third place. As fourth in the individual and second in the relay at the European Championships 2008 in Ventspils , he confirmed his good performance at the major events, he also won the bronze medal at the 2008 World Championships with the relay. Eley did not make it to the final in the 2008/09 Short Track World Cup in the individual, but a third place with the relay.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he finished seventh in the 500m final. At the 2014 World Cup in Montreal , he won bronze in the relay.

Web links

• Results on sportresult.com
• Jon Eley in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile on Zimbio