Michelle Jenneke · TheSportsDB · Courtesy of TheSportsDB
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Michelle Jenneke is an Australian athletics competitor and model born in Kenthurst in 1993. She competes in hurdling and represents Australia in international competition. Her athletic career began in 2008, and she has achieved a personal best time of 12.65 seconds. Jenneke is a member of the University of Sydney sports team and competes for the Australia Athletics team.
She has participated in several major events, including the 2016 Summer Olympics, the 2018 Commonwealth Games, the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and the 2022 Oceania Athletics Championships. Jenneke speaks English and identifies with Christianity. She is a human female who uses the name Michelle Jenneke in her native language.
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Key facts
- Nickname
- Shelly
- Born
- ( 1993-06-23 ) 23 June 1993 (age 32) , Kenthurst, New South Wales , Australia
- Height
- 172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
- Country
- Australia
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event s
- 100 metres hurdles , Sprint medley relay
- Club
- Sydney University Athletics Club
- Team
- Athletics Australia
- Olympic finals
- 2010 Summer Youth Olympics :, 100 m hurdles – Silver, Medley relay – 4th place
- World finals
- 2012 World Junior Championships : , 100 m hurdles – 5th place
- National finals
- 2016, 2023, 2024 Australian Championships :, 100 m hurdles – 1st place
- Personal best
- 100 m hurdles 12.65 ( Hengelo, Netherlands 2024)
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Athletics
- Team
- Australia Athletics
- Position
- Hurdler
- Nationality
- Australia
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michelle
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Kenthurst
- Occupation
- model
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Christianity
- Participant in
- 2022 Oceania Athletics Championships
- Sport
- athletics
- Member of team
- University of Sydney
- Country for sport
- Australia
- Official website
- www.michellejenneke.com.au
- Image
- Michelle Jenneke, 2015 IAAF Cropped.jpg
- Height
- 172
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- Commons category
- Michelle Jenneke
- date of birth
- 1993-06-23
- sports discipline competed in
- hurdling
- start of work period
- 2008-00-00
- name in native language
- Michelle Jenneke
- social media followers
- 17174
- personal best
- 11.57
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Michelle "Shelly" Jenneke (/ˈdʒɛnəˌkʌ/ JEN-ə-kuh; born 23 June 1993) is an Australian hurdler and model. She is a three-time Australian national champion in the 100 m hurdles (2016, 2023, 2024) and in 2023 became the second-fastest hurdler in the 100 m hurdles in Australia's history after Sally Pearson. Jenneke won a silver medal for the 100 m hurdles at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and the 100 m hurdles at the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. In 2012, she received worldwide media attention after her pre-race warm-up dance went viral on the internet, and she was featured in the 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Michelle Jenneke” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.