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Jodie
Williams won the 100m (11.18), 200m (22.94) and ran on the winning 4 x
100m team at this summer’s European Juniors. She is being carefully
groomed to be one of the world’s elite sprinters, and to all
indications, she is coming along quite well. Her performances this
summer gave her the Rising Star award in the European AA.
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Jodie Williams voted women’s 2011 European Athletics Rising Star
British sprint sensation Jodie Williams is the 2011
winner of the women’s European Athletics Rising Star award presented by
MONDO.
The world junior champion burned up the track in
the women’s 100m final at the European Athletics Junior Championships in
Tallinn in July to take gold in 11.18, a championships record by three
hundredths of a second and a national junior record for the teenager.
Just
24 hours after taking the 100m title, she powered to the 200m gold in a
season’s best 22.94. The 18-year-old capped the event by anchoring the
Great Britain and NI 4x100m relay team to a bronze medal at the Kadriorg
Stadium in the Estonian capital.
Williams has already amassed an
impressive collection of titles, including world youth, world junior
and now a European junior title not won by a Briton since Sonia Lannaman
38 years ago.
Earlier this year, in March, Williams came
agonisingly close to a surprise medal on her senior debut at the
European Athletics Indoor Championships in Paris, finishing fourth in
the 60 metres, just one hundredth of a second behind bronze medallist
Ezinne Okparaebo of Norway.
Williams will be presented with her
European Athletics Rising Star award at the European Athletics Awards
Night in Arona, Spain, on Saturday 15 October alongside the men’s Rising
Star winner David Storl of Germany, and the European Athlete of the
Year winners.
The men’s and women’s winners of the European Athlete of the Year will be announced next week.
Fans,
media and European Athletics Member Federations were invited to vote
for the European Athletics Rising Star on the European Athletics
website. Along with the votes from a panel of experts, each group of
voters’ results counted for one quarter of the athlete’s final score.
The
shortlist for the award included stars from this year’s World
Championships, European under-23 and junior championships, World Youth
Championships, and other young athletes who performed exceptionally well
this year.
No athlete who has previously served a two-year doping ban can be nominated for the European Athletics Rising Star award.
Women’s 2011 European Athletics Rising Star presented by MONDO final rankings:
1. Jodie Williams (GBR)
2. Dafne Schippers (NED)
3. Darya Klishina (RUS)
4. Angelica Bengtsson (SWE)
5. Maria Kuchina (RUS)
6. Amela Terzic (SRB)
7. Gesa Felicitas Krause (GER)
8. Christin Hussong (GER)
9. Kate Veale (IRL)
10. Yelena Arzhakova (RUS)
11. Layesh Abdullayeva (AZE)
12. Bianca Perie (ROU)
13. Charlotte Purdue (GBR)
14. Elena Lashmanova (RUS)
15. Barbara Spiler (SLO)
Previous women’s Rising Star winners:
2010 Sandra Perkovic (CRO)
2009 Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal (NOR)
2008 Stephanie Twell (GBR)
2007 Jessica Ennis (GBR)
Personal bests: Jodie Williams
Outdoor:
100m – 11.18 Tallinn Jul 2011
200m – 22.79 Loughborough 23 May 2010
Indoor:
60m: 7.21 Paris 5 Mar 2011
2011 season: Jodie Williams
60 m
7.28i | 1r4 | LondonG | London | 30 Jan |
7.33i | 1r1 | LondonG | London | 30 Jan |
7.28i | 1s1 | NC | Sheffield | 12 Feb |
7.24i | 1 | NC | Sheffield | 12 Feb |
7.38i | 2h3 | NC | Sheffield | 12 Feb |
7.31i | 3h3 | EC | Paris | 5 Mar |
7.21iPB | 4s2 | EC | Paris | 5 Mar |
7.21i | 4 | EC | Paris | 6 Mar |
100 m
11.49 | 1h3 | CAU Ch | Bedford | 30 May |
11.35 | 1 | CAU Ch | Bedford | 30 May |
11.67 | 1 | BIG | Bedford | 12 Jun |
11.34 | 1h1-19 | NC-j | Bedford | 25 Jun |
11.33 | 1-19 | NC-j | Bedford | 25 Jun |
11.49 | 1h1-19 | Bauhaus | Mannheim | 2 Jul |
11.48 | 1-19 | Bauhaus | Mannheim | 2 Jul |
11.65 | 4 |
| Naimette-Xhovémont | 13 Jul |
11.55 | 1h2-19 | EJ | Tallinn | 21 Jul |
11.33 | 1s2-19 | EJ | Tallinn | 21 Jul |
11.18 NJR 1-19 | EJ | Tallinn | 22 Jul |
|
200 m
23.81 | 1 | BIG | Bedford | 12 Jun |
24.13 | 1-19 | NC-j | Bedford | 26 Jun |
23.55 | 1h2-19 | NC-j | Bedford | 26 Jun |
23.05 | 1-19 | Bauhaus | Mannheim | 3 Jul |
23.21 | 1h3-19 | EJ | Tallinn | 23 Jul |
22.94SB 1-19 | EJ | Tallinn | 23 Jul |
|
22.95 | 7 | Aviva | London | 5 Aug |
Find European Athletics at www.european-athletics.org,
and www.youtube.com/europeanat
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Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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