Jessica Zelinka

Jessica Zelinka medal table
Jessica Zelinka at the 2008 Olympics
athletics
Canada
Pan American Games
gold	2007 Rio de Janeiro	Heptathlon
Commonwealth Games
silver	2010 Delhi	Heptathlon

Jessica Zelinka (* 3. September 1981 in London , Ontario ) is a Canadian athlete with the special disciplines heptathlon and 100-meter hurdles .

In the heptathlon she was eleventh at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 and just missed the medal ranks at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne with a fourth place. In 2007 she won gold in this discipline at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro , and in 2008 she was sixth at the Olympic Games in Beijing .

After a baby break, she continued her career as a heptathlete in 2010 and won silver at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi . In 2011 she was ninth at the World Cup in Daegu .

In 2012 she qualified in both the 100 m hurdles and in the heptathlon for the Olympic Games in London and came seventh in both disciplines. At the 2013 World Cup in Moscow, she reached the semi-finals over 100 m hurdles.

So far she has been six times Canadian champion in heptathlon (2001, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012) and once over 100 m hurdles (2012). She improved the national heptathlon record four times.

Jessica Zelinka is married to water polo player Nathaniel Miller .

Top performances

• 100 m hurdles: 12.65 s, 3rd August 2012, London
• Heptathlon: 6599 points, June 28, 2012, Calgary (Canadian record)
• Pentathlon (hall): 4386 points, February 23, 2007, Winnipeg

Web links

• Official website
• Jessica Zelinka in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait ( Memento from December 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at Athletics Canada
• Jessica Zelinka in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )