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| module = }} Jessica Ennis-Hill, CBE (born 28 January 1986), née Ennis, is a British track and field athlete, specialising in multi-eventing disciplines and 100 metres hurdles. A member of the City of Sheffield & Dearne athletic club, she is the current Olympic and world heptathlon champion. She is also the former European heptathlon champion and the former world indoor pentathlon champion. She is the current British national record holder for the heptathlon. She is a former British record holder in the 100 metres hurdles, the high jump and the indoor pentathlon. ==Early life and education== Born in Sheffield on 28 January 1986, she is one of two daughters of Vinnie Ennis and Alison Powell,〔 and has a younger sister named Carmel.〔 Her father, originally from Jamaica,〔Viner, Brian; ("Jessica Ennis: 'Tadpole' heads towards Beijing in giant leaps and bounds" ) ''The Independent'', 8 February 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2009〕 is a self-employed painter and decorator;〔 her mother, a social worker, was born in Derbyshire.〔Fordyce, Tom; ("Steely Ennis has golden glow" ) ''BBC'', 16 August 2009. Retrieved 21 August 2009〕 Neither of her parents were particularly athletic, but her father did some sprinting at school, whilst her mother favoured the high jump.〔 They introduced her to athletics by taking her to a 'Start:Track' event at Sheffield's Don Valley Stadium during the 1996 school summer holidays.〔Davies, Gareth A; ("My School Sport: Heptathlete Jessica Ennis" ) ''Daily Telegraph'', 26 December 2007. Retrieved 21 August 2009〕 In later years she joked that her parents took her to the event, because "I think my mum and dad wanted me out of the house!" She won her first athletics prize there – a pair of trainers. More importantly, it was there that she met the man who was to become her coach, Toni Minichiello. She took to the sport immediately and joined the City of Sheffield Athletic Club the following year, aged eleven.〔("Parents' pride over Ennis victory" ) ''BBC News Online'', 17 August 2009. Retrieved 21 August 2009〕 In November 2000, aged fourteen, she won the Sheffield Federation for School Sports ''Whitham Award'' for the best performance by a Sheffield athlete at the National Schools Championships, where she won the high jump competition.〔Sheffield Green 'Un 11 November 2000〕 Growing up in the Highfield area of Sheffield, Ennis attended Sharrow Primary School and King Ecgbert School in Dore, where she did her GCSEs and stayed on in the sixth form to gain three A-Levels,〔 before going on to study psychology at the University of Sheffield and graduating in 2007 with a 2:2. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jessica Ennis-Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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