Jana Pittman
Pittman celebrates its World Cup victory in 2007
Jana Pittman ( Jana Emily Pittman, Pittman - Rawlinson temporarily; born November 9, 1982 in Sydney ) is a former Australian athlete. She was twice world champion in the 400 - meter hurdles in 2013 and switched to bobsledding.
Life
In 1999 she was World Junior Champion in the 400 - meter hurdles and 2000 Junior World Champion in the 400 -meter run and over the hurdles. At the 2000 Olympics in her hometown she left over the hurdle track in the flow.
After the double victory in the 400 - meter hurdles and the 4 x 400 -meter relay at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, she won at the World Athletics Championships 2003 title over the hurdles. With their victories time of 53.22 s, they remained only five hundredths of a second over the Australian record for the Olympic champion Debbie Flintoff -King from 1988. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, she finished fifth.
In 2006, she was able to repeat their double victory over the hurdles and in the season of 2002 at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, she was for the second time after 2003 world champion in the 400 m hurdles. Due to injury they then took part in any international championship more.
2013 she moved to bobsledding. In her debut, she reached in the two- Astrid Radjenovic seventh place in a World Cup in Altenberg.
Jana Pittman is 1.81 m and weighs 67 kg. In 2006 she married the British 400-meter hurdler Christopher Rawlinson. 2011 the couple separated. Pittman is the mother of a son (* 2006).
Personal Best
- 400 m: 50.43 s, March 22, 2003, Sydney
- 100m hurdles: 13.92 s, January 30, 2000 Hobart
- 400m hurdles: 53.22 s, August 28, 2003, Paris