Jessica Ennis-Hill

Jessica Ennis-Hill
Jessica Ennis at the 2009 World Championships
Full name	Jessica Ennis-Hill
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	28th January 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Sheffield ,  UK
size	165 cm
Weight	57 kg
job	Track and field athlete
Career
discipline	All-around
Best performance	6955 pts ( heptathlon ) 4965 pts ( pentathlon )
society	City of Sheffield Athletic Club
status	resigned
End of career	2016
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 × World championships 3 × 0 × 0 × European championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 1 × 1 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Universiade 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold London 2012 Heptathlon silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 Heptathlon World championships gold Berlin 2009 Heptathlon gold Daegu 2011 Heptathlon gold Beijing 2015 Heptathlon  European championships gold Barcelona 2010 Heptathlon Indoor world championships gold Doha 2010 Pentathlon silver Istanbul 2012 Pentathlon  Commonwealth Games bronze Melbourne 2006 Heptathlon  Universiade bronze Izmir 2005 Heptathlon
last change: August 15, 2012

Lady Jessica Ennis-Hill , DBE (* 28. January 1986 in Sheffield as Jessica Ennis ) is a former British More fighter . Her greatest successes are the victory at the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , the victories at the World Championships in Berlin in 2009 , in Daegu in 2011 and in Beijing in 2015 as well as the victory in the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona .

Career

Jessica Ennis is the daughter of a Jamaican painter and decorator and an English social worker. She was introduced to athletics during the 1996 summer vacation - her parents had to work, so she and her sister Carmel were sent to a sports camp in her hometown of Sheffield. There the talent of the 10-year-old student was discovered by the trainer Mick Thompson. From 2000 onwards, Tony Minichiello was supposed to take care of Ennis.

After finishing fifth in her first national championships, the 2003 Junior World Championships (U18), and eighth place at the 2004 Junior World Championships (U20), she won the European Junior Champion title in 2005. At the Universiade 2005 in Izmir , she took third place with 5910 points.

At the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in March 2006, she improved her personal best by 359 points to 6269 points. With that she finished third behind her English teammate Kelly Sotherton and the Australian Kylie Wheeler . At the European Cup of all-rounders in Arles in July 2006 she reached fourth place with 6170 points. In Gothenburg at the European Championships 2006 , she improved her personal best to 6287 points and finished eighth.

In March 2007 she took part in the pentathlon at the European Indoor Championships in Birmingham , with 4716 points she reached sixth place. At the British Championships in 2007 Ennis won the 100-meter hurdles and the high jump . In Szczecin she improved her personal best in 2007 to 6399 points. She managed a further increase at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , where she finished fourth with 6469 points. On August 16, 2009, she was heptathlon world champion in Berlin with the world annual high of 6731 points. The following year she also won the European title in Barcelona and improved her personal best to 6,823 points. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , she was unable to defend her title from Berlin, although she was leading the table by over 100 points until the javelin was thrown. She only reached a distance of 39.95 m with her litter and thus lost the chance of the second world title. With 6751 points she won the silver medal behind Russian Tatyana Chernova . In December 2016, however, she was awarded the gold medal because the victorious Russian was doped.

On August 4, 2012, Ennis won the XXX in London . Olympic Games with the personal best of 6955 points the gold medal in the heptathlon. In the 100 meter hurdles she even set a world record within the heptathlon. As a result, Ennis received several awards, including the 2013 Laureus World Sports Award as "World Sportswoman of the Year".

After a two-year baby break, Ennis-Hill competed in her first heptathlon in 2015 at the Hypomeeting in Götzis in 2015. There she reached fourth place and was therefore a medal contender for the 2015 World Championships in Beijing . There she surprisingly prevailed against the world's best of the year and favored Brianne Theisen-Eaton and won the gold medal with 6669 points ahead of the Canadian Theisen Eaton and the Latvian Laura Ikauniece-Admidiņa .

At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Ennis-Hill won the silver medal with a result of 6775 points. In October 2016, she announced her retirement.

Ennis studied psychology at the University of Sheffield and graduated in the summer of 2007. In late 2012, she published her autobiography under the title Unbelievable . Ennis has been married to real estate manager Andy Hill since May 2013 and has since started under the double name Ennis-Hill. In July 2014, both became parents of a son.

With a height of 1.65 m, she had a competition weight of 57 kg.

Awards

• 2009–2012: British Athlete of the Year
• 2011: Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
• 2012: Freedom of the City of Sheffield
• 2012: 2nd place in the British Sportsman of the Year election
• 2012: Europe's athlete of the year
• 2012: Europe's Sportswoman of the Year (UEPS)
• 2012: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
• 2013: Laureus World Sports Award ("World Sportswoman of the Year")
• 2017: Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

literature

• Jessica Ennis: Unbelievable . Hodder & Stoughton 2012, ISBN 978-1-4447-6862-6 .
• Hans van Kuijen: 2006 Annual Combined Events. Helmond 2007.
• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2007. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2007, ISBN 978-1-899807-49-9 .

Web links

Commons : Jessica Ennis  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Official Website of Jessica Ennis (English)
• Jessica Ennis-Hill in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jessica Ennis . In: Internationales Sportarchiv 05/2013 from January 29, 2013, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 30/2014 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
2. ↑ http://www.sport1.de/leichtathletik/2016/11/leichtathletik-wm-2011-jennifer-oeser-erhaelt-nachtraeglich-silber
3. ↑ Gold Hat Trick for Great Britain & Heptathlon Scandal , Article on the HDsports.at website of August 4, 2012, accessed on August 6, 2012.
4. ↑ Jessica Ennis-Hill ends her successful career at Leichtathletik.de, October 13, 2016.
5. ↑ Igniting the Olympic spirit at Universities Week , article on the University of Sheffield website, April 25, 2012, accessed August 3, 2012.
6. ↑ 'Nothing is safe' as cuts threaten sport and culture at sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk, September 8, 2012 (accessed March 12, 2013).