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Top 10 Most Stunning Women Athletic Runners
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 Joanne Fenn-
(Great Britain) middle distance runner: Joanne
Fenn was born on October 19, 1974 in Leytonstone, London.She is an English
middle distance runner.
Jo had shown a great deal of promise in her early athletics career having been
the English schools 300m hurdles champion. However, a series of injuries,
particularly shin splints, halted her career. Initially competing in the 400
metre hurdles and heptathlon, Jo took up the 800 metres with her breakthrough
season arriving in 2002. She is a member of the Woodford Green & Essex Ladies
athletic club.
Fenn produced a personal best of 1:59.86 at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, in
Manchester which led to 7th place in the final.
2004 started promisingly for Jo with an 800 m. bronze medal at the World Indoor
Championships in Budapest, Hungary. In the 800 m at the 2004 Summer Olympics in
Athens, Greece, where Jo accompanied teammate and eventual gold medalist Kelly
Holmes, she progressed through the first round but in the third of three
semi-finals found the pace too fast and finished fifth therefore not qualifying
for the final.
Having recovered from a serious knee injury and major operation on a grapefruit
size cyst in 2006 and a split from her longtime coach Ayo Falola in late 2007,
Jo moved to Birmingham to train with Alan Storey with a view to qualifying for
her 2nd Olympics.
Fenn was a singer in a local band, The Business during her early career and her
sister Carla is also a singer in a band. An album co-written with Judie Tzuke is
planned for autumn 2007 and released on Universal. Jo Fenn went to Mayville
Primary School, Leytonstone, which she annually visits on the last day of each
school year to award a special Jo Fenn Trophy.
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Dated 07 December 2012
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