Jana Pittman
Jana Pittman 
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| birthday | November 9, 1982 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Sydney | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 181 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Sprint , hurdles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 50.43 s ( 400 m ) 53.22 s ( 400 m hurdles ) |
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| society | Hills District Athletics Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jana Pittman ( Jana Emily Pittman, temporarily Pittman-Rawlinson; born November 9, 1982 in Sydney ) is a former Australian athlete . She was twice world champion in the 400 meter hurdles and switched to bobsleigh in 2013 .
Life
In 1999 she was youth world champion in the 400-meter hurdles and 2000 junior world champion in the 400-meter run and over the hurdles. At the Olympic Games in 2000 in her hometown, she was eliminated over the hurdles in the preliminary run.
After the double victory in the 400-meter hurdles and in the 4-by-400-meter relay at the Commonwealth Games 2002 in Manchester, she won the title over the hurdles at the 2003 World Championships . With her victory time of 53.22 s she was only five hundredths of a second above the Australian record of the 1988 Olympic champion Debbie Flintoff-King . At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , she finished fifth.
In 2006 she was able to repeat her double victory over the hurdles and in the 2002 relay at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne . At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , she became world champion in the 400-meter hurdles for the second time since 2003. Because of injuries, she then took part in no international championship.
In 2013 she switched to bobsleigh . On her debut, she reached seventh place in the two-man bobsleigh with Astrid Radjenovic at a World Cup in Altenberg.
Jana Pittman is 1.81 m and weighs 67 kg. In 2006 she married the British 400 meter hurdler Christopher Rawlinson . In 2011 the couple separated. Pittman is the mother of one son (* 2006).
Personal bests
- 400 m: 50.43 s, March 22, 2003, Sydney
- 100 m hurdles : 13.92 s, January 30, 2000, Hobart
- 400 m hurdles: 53.22 s, August 28, 2003, Paris
Web links
- Jana Pittman in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Jana Pittman in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
- Jana Pittman in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Athletics portrait at Athletics Australia ( March 10, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive ), March 10, 2012
- Photos by Jana Pittman
Footnotes
- ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Jana Pittman plans to switch to rowing . April 27, 2012
- ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Promising bobsleigh debut by Jana Pittman . January 7, 2013
- ^ Scott Gullan: Jana Pittman on track for second divorce from Chris Rawlinson . In: Herald Sun . April 16, 2011
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| SURNAME | Pittman, Jana |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pittman, Jana Emily (full name); Pittman-Rawlinson, Jana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian sprinter and hurdler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney |