Jana Pittman was born on 9 November 1982 and is an Australian former athlete.
34 Facts About Jana Pittman
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Jana Pittman is a two-time world champion in the 400 m hurdles, from 2003 and 2007.
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Jana Pittman is one of only ten athletes to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event.
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Jana Pittman competed in the two-woman bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics, making her the first Australian female athlete to compete in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games.
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Jana Pittman attended Matthew Pearce Primary School, Crestwood High School, Mount St Benedict College and Girraween High School in western Sydney.
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Jana Pittman competed until April 2006 under her maiden name Pittman, then under her married name Rawlinson, and in 2009, following the breakdown of her marriage, as Pittman-Rawlinson.
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Jana Pittman won the 400 m hurdles at the 1999 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Bydgoszcz and became treble champion in 200 m, 400 m and 400 m hurdles at the national championships of that year.
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Just before the Athens Olympics, Jana Pittman tore her right meniscus during a warm-up for a track meet in Zurich, where she had been favoured to win the 400 m hurdles event.
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At the Melbourne Commonwealth Games Jana Pittman successfully defended her two Commonwealth titles.
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Jana Pittman later wrote a letter of apology to the English team and offered her gold medal to them.
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Jana Pittman blamed the disqualification on Lewis who, alongside Pittman, went up to the officials after the race to point out the violation of Englishwoman Natasha Danvers-Smith of taking an incorrect position on the starting leg.
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Jana Pittman won the 400m hurdles title with a new Games record time of 53.83 seconds.
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Jana Pittman carried a slight injury through her 2007 season, having surgery later in the year to remove loose cartilage and floating bone fragments in the second toe of her right foot.
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Jana Pittman was pre-selected for the 2008 Australian Olympic team in late 2007.
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In January 2008, Jana Pittman was nominated for 'Comeback of the Year' at the Laureus World Sports Awards after winning the World Title in Osaka, within 9 months of giving birth to her son.
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In February 2008, Jana Pittman again set her sights on Olympic victory at the Beijing Olympics.
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On 29 June 2009, Jana Pittman returned to racing after more than a year with a victory in the Grand Prix event at Malaga, Spain.
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Jana Pittman won the 400-metre hurdles in a time of 55.67 seconds ahead of Ukrainian Anastasiya Rabchenyuk and Janet Wienand of South Africa.
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Jana Pittman suffered a foot injury in March 2012 which put her out of contention for the London Olympics, and resulted in her deciding to retire from athletics.
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In 2014 Jana Pittman competed in the two-person bobsleigh event at the Sochi Winter Olympics.
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In January 2013, whilst training for the Sochi Winter Olympic Games, Jana Pittman began studying medicine at Western Sydney University; she received her medical MBBS degree from this university in 2019.
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Jana Pittman is an ambassador for the Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation, having been treated for the precancerous condition, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, in 2014.
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Jana Pittman was part of the cast of the second season of SAS Australia in 2021.
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Dr Jana Pittman featured in an episode of Australian Story on ABC-TV 'The Last Hurdle' in November 2021.
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On 31 March 2006, Jana Pittman married English athlete Chris Rawlinson at Morningstar Estate on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria.
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Jana Pittman later stated that she had gone for a hard twenty-minute run on the morning of the birth and "felt like a whale".
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In May 2009 it was revealed that Jana Pittman had undergone breast implant surgery after the birth of her son.
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In January 2010, it was announced that Jana Pittman had been reconciled with Rawlinson and that they would renew their vows.
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On 31 March 2010, Jana Pittman renewed vows with Rawlinson in England, wearing an unconventional red wedding dress.
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In 2015, after her cervical cancer scare Jana Pittman decided to use an anonymous sperm donor to conceive her second child, daughter Emily, while she was dating runner James Gurr.
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In January 2020, Jana Pittman began working as a junior doctor at Blacktown Hospital in Sydney's west.
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In May 2020, Jana Pittman revealed that she had been together with Sydney businessman Paul Gatward for 'almost 6 months' and that they were expecting their first child, Jana Pittman's fourth and Gatward's first.
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In October 2021, Jana Pittman revealed that she and Paul were expecting twins.
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On March 22,2022, Jana Pittman gave birth naturally to daughter Willow and son Quinlan.