Unbelievable From My Childhood Dreams to Winning Olympic Gold

Jessica Ennis started out as an ordinary Sheffield schoolgirl, one that other young people can readily relate to. The daughter of a Jamaican painter-and-decorator from Sheffield and a social care worker from Derbyshire who had shown promise themselves at schools athletics, she took the genes she was given and converted them into gold. Jessica has turned herself, by dint of her multi-disciplined skills, courage and commitment, into one of the greatest British athletes of the modern era, decorated with awards and titles and an MBE at the age of 26. A psychology graduate, her mind is as finely tuned as her body. Medals and personal bests pepper her records to show that during competition she doesn't baulk under pressure but constantly lifts herself out of her comfort zone to be the best in the world.