Janice Josephs
Janice Joseph ( born March 31, 1982 in Cape Town ) is a South African heptathlete and long jumper. At a height of 1.60 m, it has a competition weight of about 60 kg.
Career
Heptathlon
Joseph earned their first international competition in July 1999 at the 1st IAAF World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, where they took in the 200 -meter run. Your first major heptathlon, she contested in 2000 in Pietersburg, where it reached 5466 points. In 2004, she won at the Africa Athletics Championships in Brazzaville with 5785 points, the silver medal. After her qualification was for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens succeeded in the heptathlon, she took there with 6074 points to 19th place. At the World Athletics Championships 2005 in Helsinki, Finland, she gave up during the Seven struggle.
In 2006, she appeared in the heptathlon at at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, and was with a personal best of 6181 points in five. In the Africa Championships in July 2006, she won with 5876 points, the gold medal, which she had on the second place on 900 points ahead. From 2004 to 2006, she also won each of the South African champion in the heptathlon.
Long-jump
In 2006, Joseph moved from the heptathlon long jump and in the same year already South African champion. The Pan-African Games in Algiers in 2007, she won with a personal best jump of 6.79 m the gold medal in the long jump and was at the IAAF World Indoor Championships 2008 Eighth. At the Track - Africa Championships 2008 they were also able to with 6.64 m the gold medal in the long jump. Also at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009 and at the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships 2010 in Doha, Qatar, she went to the long jump, but different from each qualifying.