Jade Johnson
| Medal record | ||
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Representing  Great Britain
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| Women's athletics | ||
| European Championships | ||
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2002 Munich | Long jump |
Representing  England
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| Commonwealth Games | ||
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2002 Manchester | Long jump |
Jade Linsey Johnson (born 7 June 1980, in London) is a retired English track and field athlete, specialising in long jump. She represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics in 2004 and 2008. She placed fourth at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics and was a silver medallist at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
She is allergic to sand.[1] Jade's parents are from Liverpool, U.K., and Kingston, Jamaica.
Johnson came second in the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Later she won the silver medal at the 2002 European Championships and finished fourth at the 2003 World Championships. Her personal best is 6.81 metres, an Olympic qualifying distance, achieved in 2008 during the European Cup, where she placed second.
Jade just having returned from a serious injury, in November 2007 she had her lottery funding removed leading into Olympic year, making it harder for her to return to top rank competition. However, since then, she has set personal bests in the 100 metres and 200 metres sprints and in the long jump. She has also stated that she is now enjoying the sport more.
She came seventh in the final of the long jump in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, jumping 6.64 metres. She was very frustrated with her own performance and expressed a dissatisfaction that the winner the Brazilian Maurren Higa Maggi had previously tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.[2]
Johnson was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2009 European Indoor Championships but had to withdraw due to an injury.[3]
On 25 August 2009, it was announced that she would compete in the 2009 series of Strictly Come Dancing on BBC1 with professional dancer Ian Waite. During final dress rehearsal for the 14 November edition of the show, Jade suffered a serious injury to her right knee, and therefore was forced to withdraw on 21 November. She stated that she was "devastated" to withdraw but had to be "realistic" and praised her dance partner Ian Waite for his support.[4][5] Johnson returned with the other celebrities to perform at the final, and was given an extended time slot so she could perform the Tango that she had been due to perform before having to pull out.
References
[edit]- ^ "Jumping ahead of the competition". BBC News. 3 March 2005. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
- ^ Phillips, Michael (23 August 2008). "Olympics: Johnson angry after Brazilian with drugs past wins long-jump gold". The Guardian. London: Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 10 November 2008.
- ^ British trio will miss Europeans. BBC Sport (2 March 2009). Retrieved 2009-03-02.
- ^ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8372235.stm
- ^ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/8360903.stm
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European Athletics U23 Championships champions in women's long jump | |
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- 1980 births
- Living people
- Athletes from London
- British female long jumpers
- English female long jumpers
- Olympic female long jumpers
- Olympic athletes for Great Britain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- British Athletics Championships winners
- Black British sportswomen
- English people of Jamaican descent
- Sportspeople of Jamaican descent
- Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games