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Jess Ennis, World Champion and the UK's Number 1 Heptathlete is one of Britain’s most exciting talents in track and field.

As a junior she showed great promise and in 2006, her first year as a senior athlete, she showed she has even greater promise when she won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia.

In 2007 she broke Olympic Champion Denis Lewis’s Under-23 record for heptathlon and equalled the 25yr old British High Jump Record with 1.95m. Her continued success as a senior heptathlete earned her a place on team GB for the 2008 Olympic Games, a dream that was shattered along with her season as a result of three stress fractures in her ankle.

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2009 got off to a good start with training going according to plan and a low key competition in the northern Championships showed her recovery is well on track.

She followed this in May 2009 with a stunning return to heptathlon in Desenzano del Garda, where she set a personal best of 6587, placing her third on the British all time heptathlon records. Her season has progressively seen her set personal bests in most disciplines taking her into the World Championships in the form of her life to win the GOLD medal and become World Champion in Berlin, setting a new overall PB of 6731.

In the short-term Ennis is striving to improve her personal bests and challenge the British Heptathlon record, but always in her sights is medals at major championships and in particular at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Jess, a psychology graduate from the University of Sheffield has little time to relax given the rigours of training for seven events, but enjoys just chilling out with friends and loves to shop for clothes.

She is coached by Toni Minichiello.

Personal Bests

Heptathlon 6731, Berlin World Championships August 2009
Heptathlon 6587, Desenzano del Garda, Italy, May 2009
Pentathlon 4716 Birmingham, GBR, March 2007
100m Hurdles 12.97 (w +0.1) Osaka , Japan, August 2007
100m Hurdles 12.81, Bottrop, Germany, June 2009
200m 23.15 Osaka, Japan, August 2007
800m 2:09.88, Desenzano del Garda, Italy, May 2009
High Jump 1.95NR Szcezcin, Poland, May 2007
Long Jump 6.54 (w +2.6) Manchester, GBR, June 2007
Long Jump 6.43 Loughborough, August 2009
Shot Putt 14.14 World Champs, Berlin, August 2009
Javelin 46.47 Manchester, GBR, June 2009

Championships highlights
Heptathlon
World Championships, Berlin 2009 1st 6731 PB
World Championships, Osaka, Japan 2007 4th 6469 PB
European Championships , Goteborg, Austria 2006 8th 6287
Commonwealth Games, Melbourne, Australia 2006 3rd 6269 Bronze
Universiade, Izmir, Turkey, 2005 3rd 5910
European Juniors, Kaunas, Greece, 2005 1st 5891
World Juniors, Grosseto, Italy, 2004 8th 5542

Pentathlon
European Indoors, Birmingham GBR, 2007 6th 4716