Jessica Gregg

Jessica Gregg ( born March 16, 1988 in Edmonton, Alberta ) is a Canadian Shorttrackerin.

Gregg began at the age of five years with the short track speed skating sports. Their first international race was the Junior World Championship in 2005, where she immediately two bronze medals, one more than 500 meters, one could in the season, win. She was also fifth overall. Next year, she was able to defend the 500 -meter bronze medal, with the season they missed the podium in fourth. Even with the Canadian Junior Championships in 2006 she cut off very successfully, here she won on two routes and in the overall standings, while she missed a medal at the senior championship of their country. In the Alta Valtellina Trophy the same year she won bronze over 1000 meters.

In the season 2006/ 07 Gregg was first nominated for the short track speed skating World Cup, where they reached 500 meters in her first World Cup race the podium as third parties and also with the relay immediately made ​​the third. At their second World Cup, which took place as her first in her home country, she succeeded with the squadron also the first World Cup victory. Since they only played five of eight possible World Cup, they came in the 500 m World Cup despite the worst scores only on the thirteenth rank, even with the relay placed only sixth in the World Cup. For this, they successfully took part in the Canadian Championships in 2007, where she won the silver medal over 500 meters. In the Canadian short track speed skating ranking at the end of the season, they placed themselves under the seats 14 and 12 in previous years, on the seventh rank.

The 2007/08 season began with Gregg other podium finishes in the World Cup, but only with the relay, the individual they missed such, though their reach over 500 meters, a fourth and a fifth rank. After classifying themselves in the World Cup over this distance overall in ninth place and with the squadron won the silver medal at the World Championships in 2008, she was at the end of the season fifth in the national ranking. In the short track speed skating World Cup 2008/ 09 Gregg started with another podium placings, as a third party about 500 m and in the relay. Gregg reached at the World Championships in Vienna bronze over 500m and the relay. In the following year it reached at the Olympic Winter Games 2010 in Vancouver than 500 m the finals, but missed the bronze medal scarce and finished fourth. Also at the World Championships in Sofia, she won bronze in the relay. In the World Team Championships in Bormio she was successful and won with their fellow silver.

In addition to her specialty distance 500 m Gregg was in the World Cup on other routes at the start. The longer the race here, the worse were their rankings. While she even came over 1000 m in fifth podium in proximity, about 1500 m is only a 21 place as the best World Cup result in the statistics with her. The 3000 m it only ran at a Canadian Championship, here she placed on rank 26

At the World Championships 2014 in Montreal, she won silver in the relay.

Gregg's parents also operated winter sports, her mother Katherine participated as a speed skater at the Olympic Winter Games, her father Randy as a hockey player. Her brother operates in the Canadian Junior Speed ​​Skating Team.