20 Facts About Jenny Meadows

Jennifer Brenda "Jenny" Meadows was born on 17 April 1981 and is a retired British athlete.

At the European Athletics Championships, Meadows took silver outdoors in 2010 and gold indoors in 2011.

Jenny Meadows had some international success as part of the Great Britain women's 4 x 400 metres relay squad.

Jenny Meadows was the 800 metres winner at the English Schools Junior Championships in 1995.

Jenny Meadows finished second over the distance at the English Schools Championships.

Apart from relays at several major events, Jenny Meadows represented Great Britain at the 2001 European U23 Championships, 2002 European Indoor Championships, home 2003 World Indoor Championships, and 2003 European U23 Championships.

Jenny Meadows finished fifth in the final of her new signature event at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia, Spain.

At the European Championships in Barcelona, Jenny Meadows won a bronze, which was later upgraded to silver due to a doping offence by the Russian winner.

Jenny Meadows reached the semi-finals of the World Championships Daegu 2011 in South Korea.

Jenny Meadows returned to competition at the start of 2014, running the indoor season and then taking part in her first outdoor season since 2011.

Jenny Meadows ran the heats and semi-final but was not well enough to contest the final.

Jenny Meadows competed throughout the rest of 2015 but was very disheartened by what she had faced the past few years.

Jenny Meadows was eliminated in the semi-finals at the World Championships Beijing 2015.

Jenny Meadows was head athletics coach for Manchester City Council before becoming a full-time athlete.

Jenny Meadows has appeared on the BBC's A Question of Sport in Matt Dawson's team on 13 March 2010, and on the BBC's Mastermind in December 2011, in which her specialist subject was Wigan Warriors.

Jenny Meadows joined the BBC Sport team covering athletics at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Jenny Meadows has worked as a commentator for World Athletics at least since 2019, as of 2022.

Jenny Meadows was a pundit on the BBC coverage of the 2022 European Athletics Championships.

Since 2019 Jenny Meadows has been a Director of Totally Runable Ltd, a company co-founded by Emily Freeman who work with schools using running to build confidence in sport.

Jenny Meadows is part of Keely Hodgkinson's coaching team along with her husband Trevor Painter.