1. Brianne Theisen-Eaton was born on 18 December 1988 and is a retired Canadian track and field athlete who competed in the heptathlon and women's pentathlon.
21 Facts About Brianne Theisen-Eaton
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton is a heptathlon silver medallist from the 2013 World Championships and 2015 World Championships, as well as a pentathlon silver medalist from the 2014 World Indoor Championships.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton is the first and only Canadian woman to podium in the multi-events at the World Championships.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton won Commonwealth Games gold in the heptathlon at Glasgow 2014 and was the 2016 World Indoor Champion in the pentathlon.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton enrolled at the University of Oregon and broke a number of school records in her first three years, winning back-to-back NCAA heptathlon titles in 2009 and 2010.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton won twice at the NCAA Indoor Championship, including a collegiate pentathlon record in 2011.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton was raised in Humboldt, Saskatchewan and attended Humboldt Collegiate Institute.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton found her niche in the track and field combined events and represented Canada at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics, finishing seventeenth in the girl's heptathlon.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton was the national junior champion in the heptathlon in 2006 and took part in the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Beijing.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton received a sports scholarship at the University of Oregon, where she started a major in business administration in late 2007.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton won the Pac-10 title, then set a personal record of 6086 points to win her first NCAA outdoor title, before finally going on to take the national heptathlon title that summer.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton took a second consecutive victory at the NCAA Outdoors, improving her personal record to 6094 points.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton suffered an injury in the outdoor season that year and missed ten months as a result.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton repeated as the heptathlon champion and her personal best score of 6440 points included four new bests in individual events.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton next competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow where she went on to win the gold medal in the women's heptathlon event ahead of compatriot Jessica Zelinka.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton did not compete in the Heptathlon at the 2015 Pan American Games in her home country of Canada.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton went into the 2015 World Championships in Athletics as the favourite to win, having achieved higher scores than rival Jessica Ennis-Hill since Hill's return from pregnancy.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton won the title as world champion in the pentathlon, though rival Ennis-Hill was absent.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton competed for Canada in the heptathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton married American decathlete Ashton Eaton in July 2013.