Jenny Johnson Jordan

Jenny Johnson Jordan
portrait
birthday	June 8, 1973
place of birth	Tarzana, United States
size	1.75 m
Partner	1997-2004 Annett Davis
successes
1999 - Vice World Champion
(As of July 21, 2011)

Jennifer "Jenny" Johnson Jordan (born June 8, 1973 in Tarzana , Los Angeles , California ) is an American beach volleyball player .

Career

Jordan got into volleyball at UCLA . In 1996 she played her first international beach tournament with Katy Eldridge . From 1997 Annett Davis became her permanent athletic partner. At the 1999 World Cup, Davis / Jordan were only defeated by the Brazilians Adriana Behar and Shelda Bede in the final . Then they won the Espinho Open. After winning the tournament in Marseille the next year , they qualified for the Sydney Olympics with the world's second best result . There they finished fifth after a quarter-final defeat against the Japanese duo Takahashi / Saiki . Because of her first pregnancy , she had to take a sporting break in 2001.

In 2002 she returned to the AVP tour and reached at least the semi-finals at all stations. In the following year Davis / Jordan came in four Grand Slams in the top 5. At the World Cup in Rio de Janeiro they missed a medal by beating Australians Cook / Sanderson 2-0 . Although they were in the final in Shanghai , Stavanger and Marseille in 2004 , they missed the qualification for the Olympic tournament in Athens . In Huntington Beach they made their hundredth joint appearance, making them the longest-running duo in the United States. In 2005 she had her second child. In the following years she only played on the AVP Tour, where she achieved numerous other top placements with Davis.

family

Jordan's father Rafer Johnson won Olympic silver as a decathlete in Melbourne in 1956 and gold in Rome in 1960 .

Web links

• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Jenny Johnson Jordan in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )