Aussie hurdler and model whose pre-race dance strikes led her to be dubbed ‘jiggling Jenneke’ makes an unimaginable athletics comeback
- Former Olympian Michelle Jenneke confirms place in Commonwealth Games
- Model-athlete grew to become worldwide sensation with pre-race dance
- The 29-year-old has been coping with hamstring, ankle and again accidents
- She confirmed place on crew heading to Birmingham on social media
Michelle Jenneke has made a sensational return to athletics after spending three years on the sideline with critical again and ankle accidents that threatened to finish her profession prematurely.
The model-athlete, who gained a world following together with her well-known pre-race dance, has booked her place in Australia’s 85-strong Commonwealth Games crew travelling to Birmingham in July.
Jenneke got here in second within the 100m hurdles at each the Music City Track Carnival in Nashville and the Oceania Athletics Championships in Queensland earlier this month.
Those performances, which embrace a season finest time of 12.95 seconds in Mackay, helped safe her place at the upcoming Games in Birmingham to be held subsequent month.
‘This one is particular. To be again representing my nation after just a few years of damage is actually fairly unbelievable,’ the 29-year-old posted to Twitter.
Michelle Jenneke has confirmed her place within the upcoming Commonwealth Games after a longterm layoff with damage
Jenneke made headlines all over the world when her ‘jiggling’ dance at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona went viral
‘Huge thanks to my crew who caught with me throughout some robust moments and have made this season attainable. Proud to be again within the inexperienced & gold at my third Comm Games.’
Jenneke made headlines all over the world when her ‘jiggling’ dance at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona went viral.
The hurdler, who just lately graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Engineering, has stated prior to now she would not need to be outlined by the dance and insisted it places her in a ‘good bodily and psychological house’.
However, the antics drew criticism after she bombed out of the 2016 Rio Olympics regardless of providing one of many nation’s finest medal hopes – ending thirty seventh out of 40 entrants.
‘People will be very fast to construct you up and then minimize you down, however they do not know what is going on on behind the scenes… a variety of things go on that have an effect on efficiency,’ she stated after her Olympic disappointment.
‘People suppose that by doing my dance I’m attempting to attract consideration to myself. I’m not.’
Jenneke confirmed her place in Australia’s Commonwealth Games crew with a sequence of social media posts
The 29-year-old has greater than 500,000 followers on Instagram – sharing she could be a part of Australia’s 85-strong Commonwealth Games crew getting ready to journey to the UK
Jenneke has been coping with a sequence of hamstring, ankle and again accidents in recent times, posting movies of her rehabilitation to her standard social media accounts.
The 29-year-old has greater than 500,000 followers on Instagram – sharing she could be a part of Australia’s 85-strong Commonwealth Games crew getting ready to journey to the UK.
She joins Celeste Mucci and Liz Clay within the ladies’s 100m hurdles.
The Aussie illustration is headlined by 100m sprinter Rohan Browning, 800m star Peter Bol and lengthy distance phenoms Linden Hall and Jessica Hull.
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