Jo Brigden-Jones
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Goanna, Brigga, Joey, Jo Toe, Gypsy |
| Nationality | Australia |
| Born |
19 April 1988 Mona Vale, New South Wales |
| Residence | Sydney |
| Height | 182 cm (72 in) (2012) |
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) (2012) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Canoeing |
| Event(s) | K-4 500 m |
| Club | Sydney Northern Beaches Kayak Club |
Jo Brigden-Jones (born 19 April 1988) is an Australian kayaker. She has been selected to represent Australia at 2012 Summer Olympics in the K-4 500 m event.
Personal
Nicknamed Goanna[1][2] Gypsy,[2] Brigga, Joey and Jo Toe,[2][3] Brigden-Jones was born on 19 April 1988 in Mona Vale, New South Wales.[2][3] She attended Newport Public School before going to Oxford Falls Grammar School and Freshwater Senior Campus for high school.[3] From 2006 to 2010, she attended the University of Technology, Sydney where she earned a Bachelor of Nursing.[3] She earned a Graduate Diploma of Clinical Practice (Paramedic) from Charles Sturt University.[2] In 2010, she injured her shoulder that required ten months out of competitive sport.[1] She is a nurse.[1] As of 2012, she lives in the Sydney[3] suburb of Mona Vale.[2]
Brigden-Jones is a member of the Manly Surf Life Saving Club.[1][4] She started surf lifesaving when she was six years old through an Australian programme called Nippers.[1] In her mid-teens, she left the sport for a while but took it up again when she was nineteen. At that time, she added surfski paddling to her surf lifesaving competition events.[1] She has competed for Manly in surf lifesaving competitions.[1]
Brigden-Jones is 182 centimetres (72 in) tall and weighs 73 kilograms (161 lb).[3]
Canoeing
Brigden-Jones came into the canoeing through surf lifesaving[1] in 2001 following a talent identification test.[2] By nineteen years of age, she was participating in flatwater kayaking.[1] She was coached by Guy Wilding from 2007 to 2010. In 2011, she switched coaches with Martin Marinov becoming her new coach.[2][3] Her primary training base is Narrabeen, Sydney with a secondary training base on the Gold Coast of Queensland.[3] She is a member of the Sydney Northern Beaches Kayak Club,[3] and has a canoe scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport and the NSW Institute of Sport.[2][3]
In 2010, Brigden-Jones was ranked second in the world in the solo kayak paddler event.[1] She finished third in the K2 200m event and fifth in the K4 500m event at the 2011 World Championships in Szeged, Hungary.[1][3] She finished 7th in the K4 500m event at the 2011 World Cup 3 in Duisburg, Germany.[3] She finished fifth in the K4 500m event at the 2011 World Cup 2 in Racice, Czech Republic.[3] She finished first in the K4 500m event at the 2012 Oceania Championships in Penrith, Australia.[3] She finished first in the K4 500m event at the 2012 National Championships in Penrith, Australia.[3] At a 2012 World Cup event in Moscow in the two person kayak, she finished first.[1]
Brigden-Jones has been selected to represent Australia at 2012 Summer Olympics in the K-4 500 m event.[1] The London Games will be her Olympic debut.[1] Before the start of the Games, she and her canoe teammates trained in Italy at the AIS European Training Centre located in Varese.[5][6]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Lefort, Cecile. "Olympics-Brigden-Jones paddles from Manly surf to London waters". Reuters. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Joanne Brigden Jones". Canoe Australia. 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "London 2012 - Joanne Brigden-Jones". Australia: Australian Olympic Committee. 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
- ↑ "AFL ahead in the hearts and minds game". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
- ↑ Flood, Naomi. "London Olympics — Naomi Flood: Settling into life at our Italy base". The Manly Daily. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
- ↑ Flood, Naomi. "London Olympics — Naomi Flood: The big day is racing ever closer". The Manly Daily. Retrieved 2012-07-05.