Jessica Ennis-Hill

Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill (born 28 January 1986), is a British track and field athlete. She specializes in multi-eventing disciplines and 100 meter hurdles. She is a member of the City of Sheffield Athletic Club. Ennis-Hill is the current Olympic heptathlon champion. She is the former European and world heptathlon champion. Ennis-Hill is also the former world indoor Women's pentathlon champion.

Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill
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Ennis-Hill at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Birth name	Jessica Ennis
Born	(1986-01-28) 28 January 1986 Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	57 kg (126 lb)
Spouse(s)	Andy Hill (m. 2013) ; 2 children
Sport
Country	England
Club	City of Sheffield & Dearne athletic club
Turned pro	2005
Achievements and titles
World finals	2007 – 4th 2009 – 1st 2011 – 1st 2015 – 1st
Olympic finals	2012 – 1st 2016 – 2nd
Highest world ranking	Heptathlon: 1 (2009, 2010, 2012)
Personal best(s)	Heptathlon 6,955 pointsPentathlon 4,965 points
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 1 1 0 World Championships 3 0 0 World Indoor Championships 1 1 0 European Championships 1 0 0 Commonwealth Games 0 0 1 European Cup Combined Events 2 0 0 Summer Universiade 0 0 1 European U-23 Championships 0 0 1 European Jnr Championships 1 0 0 Commonwealth Youth Games 0 2 0 Women's athletics Representing Great Britain International athletics competitions Olympic Games Gold 2012 London Heptathlon Silver 2016 Rio de Janeiro Heptathlon World Championships Gold 2009 Berlin Heptathlon Gold 2011 Daegu Heptathlon Gold 2015 Beijing Heptathlon World Indoor Championships Gold 2010 Doha Pentathlon Silver 2012 Istanbul Pentathlon European Championships Gold 2010 Barcelona Heptathlon Summer Universiade Bronze 2005 İzmir Heptathlon European U-23 Championships Bronze 2007 Debrecen 100 m hurdles European Jnr Championships Gold 2005 Kaunas Heptathlon Representing England Commonwealth Games Bronze 2006 Melbourne Heptathlon Commonwealth Youth Games Silver 2004 Bendigo 100 m hurdles Silver 2004 Bendigo High jump
Updated on 8 March 2017.

She is the current British national record holder for the heptathlon and the indoor pentathlon. She is a former British record holder in the 100 metres hurdles and the high jump.

Ennis won a gold medal in the indoor World Championships in Doha. This was for pentathlon. In Jessica's first competition in 2011 she set an indoor personal best of 14.11 metres in the shot put. She improved this record by 50 centimetres a week later at an indoor meeting in Loughborough. On 29 January 2012, Ennis captained the British team at an international meeting in Glasgow. She competed in the sixty-metres hurdles and won in a time of 7.97 seconds.

At the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea, Ennis originally finished second to Tatyana Chernova with a score of 6,751 points. This was 129 points behind Chernova and 72 points below her own personal best of 6,823 points. Although Ennis beat Chernova in five of the seven events, her defeat was largely due to Chernova scoring 251 more points in the javelin throw. Chernova was later disqualified for failing a later doping testing, On 29 November 2016 Ennis-Hill was upgraded to a Gold Medal.

She won gold in the Heptathlon at the 2012 London Olympics.

On 13 October 2016, Ennis-Hill announced her retirement from athletics.

Personal life

Ennis-Hill was born in Sheffield to a Jamaican father and English mother. Ennis was made a Member of the British Empire in 2011. She was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2013. On November 8, 2012, she published a book about her life called Unbelievable - From My Childhood Dreams to Winning Olympic Gold.

Jessica Ennis-Hill Media

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  Jessica Ennis with Double World Championship Award

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  Ennis during the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu

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  Commemorative star in the pavement outside Sheffield Town Hall: a "walk of fame" for people associated with the city. Jessica Ennis.

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  Competing at the Yorkshire Track and Field Championships 2012 at the Dorothy Hyman Sports Centre, Cudworth, South Yorkshire

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  Ennis' Gold Post Box at Barker's Pool, Sheffield

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  The Jessica Ennis Stand at Bramall Lane

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  Henderson's Relish brought out to commemorate Jessica Ennis's Olympic Games gold medal

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  Wax statue of Ennis-Hill at Madame Tussauds, London