12 December 2010

With just three days left before the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards the athletics community wait with baited breath, hoping their World and European heptathlete Champion Jessica Ennis is awarded the coveted title.

Ennis will, alongside nine other hopefuls, learn her fate on Sunday 19 with millions watching on BBC 1. Celebrate an incredible year by voting on the night.

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Jessica Ennis – credentials

Ennis has a reputation as being an athlete who can peak perfectly for the major championships and she did just that in 2010 winning pentathlon and heptathlon titles at the World Indoors and European Championships respectively.

Her success this year further cemented her as the golden girl of British athletics as she followed up her outstanding World Championships outdoor title performance from 2009.

But life didn’t always go to plan for the Yorkshire born athlete, in 2008 the heptathlete suffered injury in the lead up to the 2008 Olympic Games and was forced to shelve her Olympic dream. However, Ennis was back on the track for the following indoor season and went from strength to strength that year (2009), concluding with a gold medal at the World Championships.

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Club: City of Sheffield

Coach: Toni Minichiello

Home Town: Sheffield, Yorkshire

Currently Lives: Sheffield

Event: Heptathlon

Breakthrough: 2005, European Junior Championships

Major Championships Record:

2009 – World Championships 1st, 2007 – 4th

2010 – IAAF World Indoor Pentathlon Championships 1st

2006 European Championships 8th, 2010 1st

2006 – Commonwealth Games 3^rd