Domestic Championships Record
2000 – AAA Junior Indoor Championships 400m gold
2002 – AAA Indoor Championships 800m gold
2003 – AAA Indoor Championships 400m gold. AAA U23 Championships 400m silver
2004 – AAA Indoor Championships 400m bronze
2005 – AAA Indoor Championships 800m gold. AAA Championships 800m bronze
2006 – AAA Indoor Championships 800m gold
2007 – Norwich Union European Indoor Champs Trials 800m silver. Norwich Union World Trials 800m silver
2008 – Norwich Union World Indoor Champs Trials 800m gold
2009 – Aviva UK Indoor Championships 800m gold. Aviva World Trials silver
2010 – Aviva Indoor World Trials 800m gold
2011 – Aviva World Trials 800m gold. Aviva European Indoor Trials 400m 5th
Major Championships and International Record
2013 – European Athletics Indoor Championships 800m 4th
2012 – European Championships 800m sf DNS
2011 – IAAF World Championships 800m 3rd sf. Spar European Team Championships 800m silver. European Indoor Championships 800m silver
2010 – World Championships 800m (indoors) silver. European Championships 800m bronze. IAAF/VTB Bank Continental Cup 800m silver
2009 – World Championships 800m bronze. European Indoor Championships 800m 4th
2008 – Olympic Games 800m 6th sf. World Indoor Championships 800m 5th. European Cup 800m gold
2007 – World Championships 800m 5th sf. European Indoor Championships 800m 5th
2006 – European Championships 4x400m ht. World Indoor Championships 4x400m 6th
2003 – World Championships 4x400m 6th. World Indoor Championships 4x400m 4th. European U23 Championships 400m 7th, 4x400m silver
2002 – Commonwealth Games 4x400m silver
2001 – European U23 Championships 400m 6th, 4x400m gold. World University Games 4x400m silver
2000 – World Junior Championships 4x400m gold
Jenny Meadows has always been a promising athlete at 400m and 800m and won the English Schools junior girls 800m in 1995 with 2:14.88 before focussing on the 400m. It has only been in recent seasons that she has excelled at 800m, having previously mixed the two distances. Meadows made a tremendous improvement during the 2007 indoor campaign, where she set a national record for 600m as well as breaking the two-minute barrier for the first time. The Wigan AC athlete was controversially not originally selected for the 2007 World Championships but was drafted in as a last minute replacement for Becky Lyne, and Meadows justified her selection by setting a lifetime best in the semi-finals.
She continued to improve during 2008, making the world indoor final, winning the European Cup and running 1:59.11 at the Paris Golden League meeting, before making the Olympic semi-final in Beijing.
Meadows defended her UK indoor 800m title but once again, Jenny was denied a medal by a narrow margin, finishing fourth at the European Indoor Championships final in 2009 but a PB of 1:59.52 at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix moved her to fourth on the British all-time list.
Her big break through came in the 2009 World Championships in Berlin with a magnificent bronze medal in a life-time best of 1:57.93, just missing the silver medal on the line after finishing like a sprinter over the final 100m. The performance was all the more due to excellent self-control in pacing herself to the perfect race.
2010 started off well with a fine silver medal in Doha at the IAAF World Indoor Championships and after a period of injury she battled well for a bronze medal at the European Championships in Barcelona before finishing in second place at the IAAF/VTB Bank Continental Cup in Split. 2011 saw her claim a silver medal at the European Indoor Championships in Paris and although exiting at the semi-final stage at the World Championships in Daegue, it was her fifth consecutive year under two minutes.
She was head athletics coach for Manchester Leisure before becoming a full-time athlete. She has a degree in English, sport, PE and recreation from Liverpool Hope and is a keen Manchester United supporter and also owns a miniature Schnauzer called Harvey.
She participated in Aviva Sportshall as an U11.
