Jessica Warner-Judd
Warner-Judd in 2018
Personal information
Born (1995-01-07) 7 January 1995
Rochford, England
Home townCanvey Island, England
EducationLoughborough University
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Weight59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
CountryGreat Britain
England
SportAthletics
Event(s)Middle-, Long-distance running
ClubBlackburn Harriers AC
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Great Britain
European Team Championships
Gold medal – first place2013 Gateshead800 m
World U20 Championships
Silver medal – second place2012 Barcelona800 m
World U18 Championships
Bronze medal – third place2011 Villeneuve-d'Ascq800 m
European Cross Country Championships
Gold medal – first place2012 BudapestU20 Team
Gold medal – first place2014 SamakovU20 Team
Gold medal – first place2016 ChiaU23 Team
Gold medal – first place2017 ŠamorínU23 Team
Silver medal – second place2014 SamakovU20 race
Bronze medal – third place2017 ŠamorínU23 race
Universiade
Gold medal – first place2019 Naples5000 m
Bronze medal – third place2017 Taipei5000 m

Jessica Warner-Judd (born 7 January 1995)[2] is an English middle- and long-distance runner. She won two individual medals in the Under-20 and U23 races at the European Cross Country Championships and a gold medal for the 5000 metres at the 2019 Universiade.

Warner-Judd took the bronze medal for the 800 metres at the 2011 World Youth Championships, and a silver in the event at the 2012 2012 World Junior Championships. She holds British U15 1500 metres record.[3] She is a four-time national champion. Warner-Judd represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Career

Born in Rochford,[4] Judd, who has studied at Grays Convent High School[5] and Castle View School, broke the British under-15 1500 metres record in July 2009, running 4:21.03. In 2011, she added two national under-17 records, with 9:08.5 for the 3000 metres in April and 4:14.21 for the 1500 m in May. Later that year at the World Youth Championships, she won a bronze medal in the 800 metres, with a time of 2:03.43. Also in 2011, she won her third consecutive 1500 m English Schools title.[3][6][7]

Judd won a gold medal as a member of the British junior women's team at the 2012 European Cross Country Championships. She began the outdoor season by running 2:01.09 for 800 m in a BMC event. At the British Olympic trials in June, she finished third, ahead of UK number one Marilyn Okoro. Then in July at the 2012 World Junior Championships, she won a silver medal in the 800  m final in 2:00.96, which is a UK age 17 record. She went on to reach the 1500 m final, finishing fifth and smashing her previous personal best, with a time of 4:09.93 which set another UK age 17 best.

On 22 June 2013, Judd won the 800 m at the European Team Championships. She followed this up with victory at the Birmingham Grand Prix on 30 June 2013, running under two minutes for the first time in her career with 1:59.86. At the 2013 UK World Championship trials, she finished second to Marilyn Okoro, earning selection for the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, where she was eliminated in the heats, running 2:01.48.

In May 2014, Judd led the Prefontaine Classic 800 m as a season opener.[8] In June that year, Judd improved her 800 m best to 1:59.77 in Oslo. In August, at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, she reached the 800 m final, finishing fourth in 2:01.91. Two weeks later at the European Championships in Zürich, she again reached the final, finishing seventh in 2:01.65.

In March 2017, Judd won the British Inter Counties Ladies' Cross Country Championships held at Loughborough, earning selection for the British team competing in the World Cross Country Championships later that month in Kampala. On 5 April that year, Judd ran 8:52.16 for 3000 m in Watford, to become only the fourth British woman to have broken two minutes for 800 m and nine minutes for 3000 m, after Christina Boxer, Kirsty Wade and Hannah England. A month later, again in Watford, she improved her 1500 m best to 4:05.20. Later that year, she finished second in the 1500 m at the British Athletics Championships, ensuring her qualification for the 2017 World Athletics Championships where she reached the semi-final of the 1500 m, having run a personal best in the heats.

In 2020, she became British champion when winning the 5000 metres event at the British Athletics Championships with a time of 15:37.52.[9]

She retained her title in 2021, a year in which she also qualified for her first Olympic Games over both the 5000 m and 10,000 m. At the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Warner-Judd did not qualify from the heats in the former (15:09.47) and finished 17th at the latter (31:56.80).[2]

Statistics

Information taken from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.[2]

Personal bests

Road

National titles

References

  1. ↑ "2018 CWG bio". Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "Jessica WARNER-JUDD – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Jessica Warner-Judd – Profile". Power of 10 / thepowerof10.info. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. ↑ Jessica Judd. Glasgow2014. Retrieved on 2014-08-08.
  5. ↑ "Athletics: Great run by Jess Judd in World Champs". Your Thurrock. 5 August 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  6. ↑ "Jessica Judd". TOPS in athletics.
  7. ↑ "Athletes - Judd Jessica Biography". iaaf.org.
  8. ↑ "USATF.TV - Videos - Womens 800m USATF High Performance Section 1 - Nike Pre Classic 2014".
  9. ↑ "Results list". British Athletics.
  10. ↑ "Jessica Warner-Judd becomes back-to-back UK champion". BBC Sport. 21 May 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
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