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Fact file: Jessica Ennis
Sport: Heptathlon
Born: 26 January1986
Country: UK
Height: 1.65
Weight: 57kg
World Athletics Championships:
2009 Heptathlon Berlin (outdoor): Gold
2010 Pentathlon Doha (indoor): Gold
European Athletics Championships
2010 Heptathlon, Barcelona: Gold
You have to run, you have to jump, you have to throw - you have to be super-woman to win the heptathlon! It's seven different events - and you have two days to do them all: the high jump, the long jump, the javelin, the shot put, the 100m hurdles, the 200m and the 800m. Jessica Ennis is the UK's poster girl for the London Olympics - but is she super-woman?
Jessica began athletics when she was ten years old. It was the summer holidays. She says:
'My mum and dad wanted me out of the house!' She trained and competed through school, then she went to university and studied psychology. She became a professional athlete in 2005. In 2007 she went to her first World Championships. She didn't get a medal - but a lot of people noticed her. They knew she would be a champion one day. In 2008 she had qualified to go to the Beijing Olympics, but she never got there. She injured her right foot shortly before the Games. She thought her career was over.
But after a year Jessica was back - and she was better than ever. She won Gold and became World Champion at Berlin in 2009. In 2010 she won Gold at the indoor World Championships. She was a double world champion and the first British woman to win both outdoor and indoor World titles. Later that year she won Gold in the European Championships, too.
By this time everybody thought she was super-woman. They were sure she would get gold in 2012. She was Britain's 'Female Athlete of the Year' and she was everywhere - on the TV, on posters - even in Madame Tussauds, the famous waxworks in London.
In August 2011, she went to the World Athletics Championships in Daegu. She was hoping for Gold and she was hoping to keep her title - but she didn't. She only got Silver. A Russian, Tatyana Chernova, won the Gold and the title. It was Jessica's first defeat in two years.
She was disappointed but positive:
'If I had to win silver anywhere it's here. Not next year when I want the Olympic gold.'
Can she beat Chernova in 2012?
'Yes, definitely I can.'
She sounds like super-woman to me!
小编：杰西卡·恩妮斯生活在约克郡的谢菲尔德，她十岁时受到父母的启发开始练习田径，过去三年中她在国际赛场上的努力使她成为北京奥运会七项全能项目上最热门的奖牌争夺者。在2006年末的世界联合挑战赛上，她总成绩排名第九。她在世界田联的年终排名上位列第二，并且以6469的分数获得2007年世锦赛的第四名。她被队友叫做蝌蚪，是谢菲尔德大学的心理学毕业生，她的目标就是在北京奥运会上赢得一枚奖牌。杰西卡·恩妮斯斯更希望在今年的伦敦奥运会上获得金牌。
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发表于 2017-3-17 19:20:50