Jana Pittman

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Jana Pittman athletics

Osaka07 D6A Jana Rawlinson celebrating.jpg
Pittman celebrates her 2007 World Cup victory

nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
birthday November 9, 1982
place of birth Sydney
size 181 cm
Weight 67 kg
Career
discipline Sprint , hurdles
Best performance 50.43 s ( 400 m )
53.22 s ( 400 m hurdles )
society Hills District Athletics Club
status resigned
Medal table
World championships 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Commonwealth Games 4 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Youth World Cup 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
IAAF logo World championships
gold Paris 2003 400 m hurdles
gold Osaka 2007 400 m hurdles
Commonwealth Games Federation logo Commonwealth Games
gold Manchester 2002 400 m hurdles
gold Manchester 2002 4 × 400 m
gold Melbourne 2006 400 m hurdles
gold Melbourne 2006 4 × 400 m
IAAF logo Junior World Championships
gold Santiago 2000 400 m
gold Santiago 2000 400 m hurdles
IAAF logo Youth World Championships
gold Bydgoszcz 1999 400 m hurdles

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

Web links

Commons : Jana Pittman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. Leichtathletik.de: Jana Pittman plans to switch to rowing . April 27, 2012
  2. Leichtathletik.de: Promising bobsleigh debut by Jana Pittman . January 7, 2013
  3. ^ Scott Gullan: Jana Pittman on track for second divorce from Chris Rawlinson . In: Herald Sun . April 16, 2011