Michelle Jenneke
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Jenneke at the 2012 World Junior Championships
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Full name | Michelle Jenneke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | Shelly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Kenthurst, New South Wales |
23 June 1993 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 7.75 in (1.72 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 100 metres hurdles Sprint medley relay |
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Club | Sydney University Athletics Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team | Athletics Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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World finals |
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National finals |
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Olympic finals |
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Personal best(s) | 100 m hurdles 12.82 (Brisbane 2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Michelle "Shelly" Jenneke (/məˈʃɛl ˈdʒɛnəkə/; born 23 June 1993) is an Australian hurdler and model, who won a silver medal for the 100 m hurdles at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. She received worldwide media attention in 2012 for her pre-race warm-up, which involved dancing.
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Background
Jenneke was born in Kenthurst, New South Wales, Australia.[1] She attended The Hills Grammar School. In one interview, she described her hobbies as Australian rules football, soccer, quad biking, climbing trees and handball.[2]
She is studying mechatronics at Sydney University, a combination of mechanical and electrical engineering.[3]
Athletics
Jenneke has trained with coach Mick Zisti as a hurdler from the age of 10 at the Cherrybrook Athletics Club.[1][4] She competed at the Canberra hosted 2008 Pacific School Games in the 90 and 200 metres hurdles.[4][5]
In March 2010, Jenneke finished 1st in the 100 m hurdles and broke the Australian record in the women's sprint medley relay at the 2010 Australian Junior Championships.[6] She competed in the 2011 Pirtek Athletic Allstars event.[7] In July 2010, Jenneke was in Australia's team at the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympic Games, running the 100 m hurdles and the women's medley relay. In the hurdles, she came second with a time of 13.46 and setting a personal best after winning her heat, and the medley relay team came fourth.[8][9][10][11][12][13] Her medal was the first Australia won at the Games in athletics.[14]
In 2011, she competed at the New Zealand hosted Cooks Classic.[15] At the 2011 Australian Junior Championships, she had a first place hurdles finish in the under-20 group.[15] In April 2011 she competed at the 89th Australian Athletics Championships and finished third in the 100 m hurdles behind world champion Sally Pearson.[16]
On 15 July 2012, Jenneke finished fifth in the 2012 IAAF World Junior Championships 100 m hurdles.[17] After the competition, a video of her 100 m hurdles taken during the heats race, which was subsequently posted on a video sharing site, raised her profile around the world.[18][19]
Jenneke was selected as a member of Australia's 2014 Commonwealth Games team.[20]
In those 2014 Commonwealth Games Jenneke came 5th in the final with a time of 13.36, Jenneke was the youngest competitor in the final. Michelle Jenneke is the 2nd fastest 100 metre hurdle women in Australian history.[21]
Jenneke's personal best is 12.82 set at the Australian Athletics Championships in Brisbane on 29 March 2015 [22]
Jenneke finished 2nd at nationals[23] to qualify for the 2015 World Championships in Beijing (28/05/15) Jenneke got through the heats to make the semi-finals and in her semi she finished 6th, however her reaction time in that semi-final was the quickest of all competitors over the three semi-finals.
Career highlights
- 1st place (100m hurdles) – 2010 Australian Junior Championships
- 1st place (4 × 100 m relay) – 2010 Australian Junior Championships (Australian record)
- 2nd place (100m hurdles) – 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, Singapore
- 4th place ("Swedish medley" relay) – 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, Singapore
- 3rd place (100m hurdles) – 2011 Australian Championships
- 5th place (100m hurdles) – 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics, Barcelona, Spain
- 5th place (100m hurdles) – 2014 Commonwealth Games, Glasgow, Scotland 13.36[24]
- 2nd place (100m hurdles) – 2015 Australian Championships 12.82[25]
- 3rd place (100m hurdles) - 2015 World University Games Gwangju 2015 12.94[26]
- Semi Finals - 6th place (100m hurdles) - 2015 World Championships Beijing 13.01 (fastest reaction time 0.122 in all semi-finals)[27]
Media coverage
In July 2012 videos of Jenneke dancing during her pre-race warmup before the 100 m hurdles race at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Barcelona went viral on YouTube.[28] One clip received 19 million views by the following week and was featured on the American late night talk show, The Tonight Show.[29]
Jenneke acted in a short comedic video produced by the website The Chive titled Forever Alone Meets Michelle Jenneke, playing herself in a piece referencing her viral race video.[30] The Forever Alone video had received over ten million views on YouTube by 2014.[31]
In January 2013 Jenneke was ranked tenth on AskMen.com's 99 Most Desirable Women 2013.[32] She was one of the athletes featured in the 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.[33][34]
In 2014 Jenneke was featured in a video-heavy mobile computing app on stretching techniques called Stretch with Michelle Jenneke.[35][36]
In early 2014 Jenneke was a star in the Top Gear Sydney Festival, racing a Nissan GT-R [37]
Athletic achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2010 | Oceania Youth Championships | Sydney | 3rd | 100 m | 12.15 s (+0.5 m/s) |
Oceania Youth Championships | Sydney | 1st | 100 m hurdles | 14.12 s (-1.4 m/s) | |
Oceania Youth Championships | Sydney | 1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 45.75 s | |
2015 | World Championships | Beijing, China | 18th (sf) | 100 m hurdles | 13.01 |
2016 | World Indoor Championships | Portland, United States | 10th (h) | 60 m hurdles | 8.10 |
References
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- ↑ <http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/australia/michelle-jenneke-251727>
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkt-TWE1UrU
- ↑ <http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/2014/results/sports/athletics/womens-100m-hurdles>
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- ↑ <http://www.iaaf.org/results/iaaf-world-championships-in-athletics/2015/15th-iaaf-world-championships-4875/women/100-metres-hurdles/semi-final/result>
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- ↑ http://uproxx.com/sports/2014/09/michelle-jenneke-dancing-again/
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