Jenny Simpson

Jenny Simpson
Simpson at the 2016 US Olympic Trials
nation	United States
birthday	23rd August 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Webster City , United States
size	165 cm
Weight	50 kg
Career
discipline	Middle distance running long distance running
Trainer	Mark Wetmore Heather Burroughs
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 1 × 2 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Rio de Janeiro 2016 1500 m  World championships gold Daegu 2011 1500 m silver Moscow 2013 1500 m silver London 2017 1500 m
last change: December 5, 2018

Jennifer Mae "Jenny" Simpson , b. Barringer (born August 23, 1986 in Webster City , Iowa ) is an American middle-distance , long-distance and obstacle runner .

The three-time NCAA champion (2006, 2007, 2009) over 3000 meters obstacle won her first national title in 2007 with a time of 9: 34.64 minutes, at that time the second fastest of an American woman. At the World Championships in Osaka , she was eliminated in the preliminary stages.

After qualifying in third place in the US elimination matches for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing the following year , she set a continental record on July 22nd in Heusden-Zolder with 9:22.70 minutes. She improved this mark as ninth in the Olympic final to 9: 22.26 minutes.

In 2009 she became US champion for the second time and was fifth at the World Championships in Berlin with another record time of 9: 12.50 minutes, with which she now takes ninth place on the all-time world best list (as of August 2009).

The following year she had to end the season after a stress fracture in her right femur .

In 2011 she became US indoor champion in the mile run and over 3000 meters and US runner-up over 1500 meters . Over the same distance she won the gold medal at the World Championships in Daegu .

At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , she was eliminated over 1500 meters in the semi-finals. In 2013 she won silver over the same distance at the World Championships in Moscow .

Jenny Simpson is 1.65 m tall and weighs 50 kg. She graduated in 2009 with a degree in political science from the University of Colorado at Boulder , for whose sports team Colorado Buffaloes she started, and was then signed by the sporting goods manufacturer New Balance . Since 2010 she has been trained by Juli Benson. On October 18, 2010, she married former middle-distance runner Jason Simpson.

Best times

• 800 m : 2:00, 45 min, May 17, 2013, Los Angeles
• 1500 m : 3: 57.22 min, July 5, 2014, Paris
  • Hall: 4: 07.27 min, February 11, 2012, New York City
• 1 mile : 4: 17.30 min, July 22, 2018, London
  • Hall: 4: 25.91 min, February 28, 2009, College Station
• 3000 m : 8: 29.58 min, September 5, 2014, Brussels
  • Hall: 8: 40.31 min, February 10, 2018, Boston
• 5000 m : 14: 56.26 min, August 29, 2013, Zurich
• 3000 m obstacle : 9: 12.50 min, August 17, 2009, Berlin

Web links

• Official website
• Jenny Simpson in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on the USA Track & Field website
• Jenny Barringer on the Colorado Buffaloes website