Michelle Jenneke

Michelle Jenneke

Personal information
Full name Michelle Jenneke
Nickname(s) Shelly
Nationality Australian
Born (1993-06-23) 23 June 1993
Kenthurst, New South Wales
Height 5 ft 7.75 in (1.72 m)
Sport
Country Australia Australia
Sport Athletics
Event(s) 100 metres hurdles
Sprint medley relay
Club Sydney University Athletics Club
Team Athletics Australia
Achievements and titles
World finals
National finals
Olympic finals
Personal best(s) 100 m hurdles 12.82 (Brisbane 2015)
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Summer Universiade
2015 Gwangju 100 m hurdles
Youth Olympic Games
2010 Singapore 100 m hurdles
Oceania Youth Championships
2010 Sydney 100 m hurdles
2010 Sydney 4×100 m relay
2010 Sydney 100 m

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 won the 100 m hurdles at the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships to qualify for the Rio Olympic Games. She received worldwide media attention in 2012 for her pre-race warm-up dance.

Early life

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 woman 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. Jenneke got through the heats to make the semi-finals. She finished 6th in her semi and in 18th place overall.

In March 2016, Michelle Jenneke represented Australia at the World Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon and finished ranked 10th. In April 2016 she won the Australian National Championship 100 m hurdles final with a time of 12.93, qualifying her for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.[24]

In August 2016, Michelle Jenneke competed in her first Olympics but was unable to get out of the heats, finishing in 6th in her heat in a time of 13.26. She would have needed a near personal best to qualify as the third qualifying time in her heat was 12.85. However, Australian head coach Craig Hilliard was critical of her performance.[25]

In the Australian University Games at Perth Michelle tried her hand at the 100metres sprint, getting through to the final, also the long jump where she finished 2nd with a jump of 5.61metres and her own event the 110 metres hurdles which she won in a time of 14.19 [26]


Career highlights

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.[33] One clip received 19 million views by the following week and was featured on the American late night talk show, The Tonight Show.[34]

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.[35] The Forever Alone video had received over ten million views on YouTube by 2014.[36]

In January 2013 Jenneke was ranked tenth on AskMen.com's 99 Most Desirable Women 2013.[37] She was one of the athletes featured in the 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.[38][39]

In 2014 Jenneke was featured in a video-heavy mobile computing app on stretching techniques called Stretch with Michelle Jenneke.[40][41]

In early 2014 Jenneke was a star in the Top Gear Sydney Festival, racing a Nissan GT-R.[42]

Athletic achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Australia
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 Australian Athletics Championships Sydney, Australia 1st 100 m (h) 12.93 s (+2.0 m/s)
World Indoor Championships Portland, United States 10th (h) 60 m hurdles 8.10
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 37th (h) 100 m hurdles 13.26

References

  1. 1 2 Pranesh Nageshwar (23 August 2010), "Hills' Michelle Jennecke delighted at silver medal win", Hills Shire Times
  2. ↑ Nick Smart (20 July 2012), "Aussie Michelle Jenneke the world's favourite new hurdler", The Daily Telegraph
  3. ↑ News Corp Australia Network (12 February 2013). "Aussie hurdler Michelle Jenneke among athletes featured in Sports Illustrated". Herald Sun.
  4. 1 2 Nageshwar, Pranesh (25 November 2008). "Three racing for glory". Hills Shire Times. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  5. ↑ Nageshwar, Pranesh. "Cherrybrook athletes shine". Hills Shire Times. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  6. ↑ "Michelle Jenneke Youth Olympics profile". 2010 Youth Olympics. July 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  7. ↑ Nageshwar, Pransh (7 September 2010). "Sprinter aims for Games". Hills Shire Times. Sydney, Australia. p. 110. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  8. ↑ "Shelly's super silver". Athletics Australia. 21 August 2010. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
  9. ↑ "Dominican athletes win medals in Singapore". Dominican Today. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  10. ↑ "Aussie youths continue medal run". ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). 22 August 2010. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  11. ↑ "Skeen strikes – Lands historic 100m gold at Youth Olympics". Jamaica Observer. 22 August 2010. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  12. ↑ "www.smh.com.au – Parnov named in Youth Olympic team". The Sydney Morning Herald. 31 March 2010. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  13. ↑ Casey, Michael (21 August 2010). "IOC: Many countries interested in youth games". USA Today. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  14. ↑ "Jenneke wrests silver medal". Hills Shire Times. Sydney, Australia. 24 August 2010. p. 82. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  15. 1 2 Alan Adamson (15 March 2011). "Langton-Burnell one to watch at school's champs". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  16. ↑ 89th Australian Athletics Championships – 15/04/2011 to 17/04/2011. Athletics.com.au. Retrieved on 22 September 2016.
  17. ↑ "IAAF 2012 World Championship Results" (PDF). IAAF.
  18. ↑ "Australian Runner Has the World's Sexiest Pre-Race Routine [VIDEO]".
  19. ↑ Jauregui, Andres (19 July 2012). "WATCH: Athlete's Sexy Warm Up". Huffington Post.
  20. ↑ Pearson, Matt (13 June 2014). "10 per cent of Australia's Commmonwealth Games Squad Have Sydney Uni Connections". The Daily Telegraph (Sydney).
  21. ↑ Top-Lists. All-Athletics.com. Retrieved on 22 September 2016.
  22. ↑ Michelle Jenneke | Profile. iaaf.org. Retrieved on 22 September 2016.
  23. ↑ Bankstown Sports Athletics Club (29 March 2015). "Australian Championships – Michelle Jenneke" – via YouTube.
  24. ↑ "Michelle Jenneke".
  25. ↑ Rio Olympics 2016: Coach tells hurdler Michelle Jenneke to sort priorities. Smh.com.au (21 August 2016). Retrieved on 2016-09-22.
  26. ↑
  27. ↑ Results – Womens 100m Hurdles – Athletics – Glasgow 2014 – Commonwealth Games. BBC Sport.
  28. ↑ AthsAust (30 March 2015). "100m hurdles final – 2015 Australian Athletics Championships" – via YouTube.
  29. ↑ Women's 100m Hurdles Final World University Games Gwangju 2015. YouTube (10 July 2015). Retrieved on 2016-09-22.
  30. ↑ 100 Metres Hurdles Result | 15th IAAF World Championships. iaaf.org. Retrieved on 22 September 2016.
  31. ↑ 60 Metres Hurdles Summary | IAAF World Indoor Championships. iaaf.org. Retrieved on 22 September 2016.
  32. ↑ Results – Womens 100m Hurdles – Athletics – Rio 2016 – Olympics – BBC Sport. Bbc.co.uk (1 January 1970). Retrieved on 2016-09-22.
  33. ↑ Roberts, Christine (20 July 2012). "Hurdler's hot warmup dance wins her heat". Daily News. New York.
  34. ↑ Kelly, Heath (26 July 2012). "Aussie hurdler Michelle Jenneke becomes worldwide sensation with pre-race dance routine". Herald Sun.
  35. ↑ Agomuoh, Fionna (14 December 2012). "Michelle Jenneke stars in new video doing sexy warm up dance". International Business Times. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  36. ↑ "Forever Alone meets Michelle Jenneke". YouTube. 13 December 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  37. ↑ "AskMen.com Top 99 Women of 2013 No. 10 Michelle Jenneke". San Francisco, California: Askmen.com. January 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
  38. ↑ Beattie, John (12 February 2013). "Michelle Jenneke Appears in 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue". NESN. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  39. ↑ Dicker, Ron (13 February 2013). "Michelle Jenneke Sports Illustrated video: Australian hurdler jumps into swimsuit modeling". Huffington Post.
  40. ↑ O'Donnell, Jake (10 June 2014). "French Rugby Fan Flashes Us, Michelle Jenneke's Stretching App, Someone Hit 9 RBI, and Paul George Dissing LeBron". Sports Grid.
  41. ↑ "Stretch". Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  42. ↑ "Michelle Jenneke Did Her Bouncy, Pre-Race Routine Again And It Was Spectacular". 4 September 2014.
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