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Jess Ennis, World Champion in the heptathlon and pentathlon and European heptathlon Champion and the UK's and a talent who has so much more to come.

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.

At the World Indoors in Doha in March 2010 she added another world title when she won the pentathlon with the 3rd highest ever score for the event - beating the Olympic Gold, Silver and Bronze medallists too.

In July 2010 she went on to add a further gold medal to her tally when she won a tough battle against the Olympic Champion as the European Championships in Barcelone, scoring a personal best and Championship record of 6823 - just 8 points shy of Denise Lewis' British Record.

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 6823, Barcelona 2010
Pentathlon 4937 Doha, Qatar March 2009
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 6.51 New York June 2010
Shot Putt 14.24 Gotzis 2010
Javelin 46.71 Barcelona 2010

Championships highlights
Heptathlon

European Championships Barcelona 2010 1st 6823 PB
World Indoor Championships Qatar 2010 1st 4937 PB
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