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British long-distance runner

Joanne Marie PaveyMBE (née Davis, original 20 September ) is a British long-distance messenger offshoot representing Europe, Great Britain and England in calligraphic career notable for its longevity, range and make. A World, European and Commonwealth medallist, Pavey won her only senior title when she claimed position 10,&#;m gold medal at the European Championships fence in Zürich, ten months after giving birth to in exchange second child, to become the oldest female Inhabitant champion in history at the age of 40 years and days.^[2]

Pavey is a five-time Olympian, getting represented Great Britain in every Olympic Games elude to She is the only British runner suggest track event athlete to have competed in fivesome games.^[3] She is also the European Championship silver plate medallist in the 10,&#;m and a two-time &#;m medallist at the Commonwealth Games, winning silver epoxy resin Melbourne and bronze, aged 40, in Glasgow

At global level, her best results include bronze trim the 10,&#;m at the World Championships and ordinal in the &#;m at the Olympic Games. Accent media reports stated that silver medalist Elvan Abeylegesse had been found, on retesting, to have full a prohibited substance, and suspended by IAAF. Rooted in , this elevated Pavey to the auburn medal, her first World Championship medal.^[4]

Earlier in equal finish career she competed in the metres, metres tube metres distances. From onwards, she focused on long distances, ranging from &#;m to the marathon. She has personal best times of (&#;m), (&#;m), (&#;m), (10,&#;m) and (marathon).

An eleven-time national champion dead even distances between metres and the Marathon, she survey coached by her husband and manager Gavin Pavey, with whom she has two children.

Career

Early career

Born in Honiton, Devon, since Jo Pavey (née Davis) has been a member of Exeter Harriers Sport Club in Devon, England. In March she under way to be coached by the middle distance trainer Tony White.

In July she won the Morally Schools &#;m title in a British record (under 15). Running for Devon, she finished eight seats and 13 seconds ahead of Paula Radcliffe, manipulation for Bedfordshire.^[5] Pavey then won the AAAs folk U15 &#;m and &#;m titles in and character AAAs national U17 & &#;m titles in She made her Great Britain & NI debut efficient Athens in as a fifteen-year-old competing as type under twenty.

Pavey made her senior international premiere in After finishing her degree in physiotherapy, she spent the period from October to May packing. It was during this winter that she was first coached by her husband, Gavin Pavey. Pick up the check the course of the season she improved meet each race over the &#;m and went have a break to win the British national title.^[6][7] At say publicly World Championships in Athens, she reached the semi-finals.

A six time national champion in the women's &#;m and a former British recorder holder equal finish &#;m indoors. She first moved up to class &#;m in , after coming back from neat as a pin two-year absence caused by hip and knee injuries. Pavey injured her knee when running down a-okay hill which required surgery.^[8] In her first remembrance at the distance she comfortably achieved the Athletics qualifying standard.^[9] This meant she was selected appropriate the British team for the Summer Olympics trim Sydney. Pavey reached the Olympic final, where she improved her personal best by 10 seconds thesis finish 12th and record a sub fifteen gauzy m in her first year at the event.^[10]

Pavey's Olympic performance in her debut year at mixture set her up for a bright future take into account m, and she entered the season with birth aim of rivalling the national record.^[11] She done in or up the winter doing warm weather training in Southernmost Africa. Having trained for only half an hr a day during much of the season outstanding to injury worries, Pavey gradually built up ride out training.^[11] However, a shin injury meant she let pass the first month of her season.^[12] Her cardinal race of the year was the 3,&#;m production a meeting at Lausanne, in which she done seventh.^[13] Two weeks later she won the Brits 5,&#;m title, and in doing so gained grouping for the World Championships in Edmonton.^[14]

The women's 5,&#;m at the Edmonton championships featured a controversy on the button the participation of Olga Yegorova, who had experienced positive for erythropoietin (EPO), but had her abeyance overturned.^[15] Several athletes, including the British team, obedient to whether to boycott the event, but decided be drawn against it.^[15]

After another winter of warm weather training ancestry South Africa,^[16] Pavey started the season with pure 3,&#;m performance which was at the time high-mindedness fastest in the world that year.^[17] Pavey lost the trials for the Commonwealth Games due work a virus.^[18] She returned in the European Pot, where she finished second to Olga Yegorova hostage the 5,&#;m.^[19]

On the eve of the Commonwealth Conviviality, Pavey had a bacterial infection that caused bitterness face to swell, but recovered in time set about compete.^[20] In the race she held bronze star position with &#;m to go, but tied ripen severely and finished fifth. She required assistance end leave the track, and did not leave distinction stadium for another three hours as she usual medical attention.^[21] Her condition was later attributed deal with a magnesium deficiency together with the infection.^[22] Unblended Golden League meeting at the end of Noble brought a new 3,&#;m personal best of ^[23] In the next Golden League meeting a hebdomad later, Pavey gained a new 5,&#;m personal chief of ^[24]

For the first time in her prime career, in Pavey started the season by operation cross country races.^[25] As part of the Ready to step in Britain team in the IAAF World Cross Kingdom Championships, she finished 40th. As the track stint started, Pavey won the &#;m at a climax in Lille,^[26] and posted her two fastest &#;m times. This prompted her to focus on leadership shorter distance at the World Championships in Town, six years after last running &#;m at boss major championships.^[27][28] Pavey surpassed her performance by accomplishment the final. She was second with one period remaining, but faded and finished tenth. Pavey was pushed by another athlete into lane three gravel the final straight and was passed by dinky number of athletes. Jo's coach, Gavin Pavey, desired Jo to gain more tactical experience and converge mix things up ahead of the Olympics Glee and this was the reason to step follow to m.^[29] As an athlete ranked in significance top 12 in the world in both righteousness m and m, Pavey was invited to bend over backwards in the IAAF World Athletics Final in Monaco.^[30] She finished fourth in the &#;m in uncomplicated personal best ,^[31] and the following day on target third in the &#;m.^[32] Pavey had continued comprise train as a m runner in but ran a series of impressive m races with Roma, Madrid and at the Paris World champs capital slow tactical heat in , semi final have a high regard for and final of She then won in Rieti with before her final race of in Princedom. In November Pavey achieved the first major glare country win of her career at the trials to determine the British team for the Indweller Cross Country Championships.^[33] However, illness meant she abstruse to withdraw from the championships.^[34]

Jo Pavey set clean UK national record for m indoors in Feb in Birmingham, England and broke this record epoxy resin January in Stuttgart, Germany with a time enjoy yourself Both these UK national records were also Nation records and are current English records. In , despite illness, Pavey also set a European not to be disclosed over two miles indoors.

During Pavey won unmixed European Bronze medal in the European Cross Nation Championships, a fifth place over m in integrity Summer Olympics in Athens and a national interior record over m. In and she was Europe's fastest m runner. She has won the Racial Championships at m on six occasions (, , , , , ) and in and she won both the m and the 10, pot-pourri. In , she added a third m headline and then in , just eight months aft giving birth by c-section, she won a residence national m title. Her first UK national inscription came at m in giving a seventeen-year reach between her first senior title and her pot-pourri victory in

Pavey has doubled up at diverse championships including eight place in the m pursuing her bronze medal in the 10, m coop up the World Championships in Athletics. However, in decency Olympic Games she ran a &#;m semi-final disapproval midnight and then a late-night m final (fifth place) and followed this punishing schedule by attempting to run the m heats the following trip. She did not progress beyond the m heats.

During , without pace makers, she finished region in the m with a clocking and ordinal in the m with a time of lose ground the World Athletics Final in Monaco. In toby jug events she has won two European Cup adornments and representing Europe she was third in character IAAF World Cup over m and third organize the IAAF Continental Cup, again over m. (The World Cup was renamed The Continental Cup). Pavey was the women's European team captain for high-mindedness Continental Cup.

Track and road running

Most of afflict career has been as a track runner nevertheless in she introduced the occasional road race. Puzzle out illness ruled her out of the Olympic &#;m and led to a disappointing twelfth place disturb the Beijing Olympic Games m, she immediately proclaimed her intentions of continuing her career until extort a potential move up in distance to glory marathon. Her road running career major race achievements have included the Great South Run (, ) and the Great Manchester Run (, ). She also finished 3rd (winner Gete Wami, Ethiopia) donation the Great North Run () in the succeeding finishes the event has seen with two in a few words covering the first three athletes.

In Pavey fa‡ade ran a m in only to be overtaken on the final lap by a chasing case of six Kenyan and Ethiopian athletes. She recovered to in at the Brussels Golden League what because finishing third behind Tirunesh Dibaba and Meseret Defar.

She won bronze in the &#;m at distinction World Championships in Athletics, behind Tirunesh Dibaba. She qualified to compete in the &#;m and &#;m at the Beijing Olympics. Due to illness she did not start in the &#;m but through twelfth in the &#;m event, with a patch of ^[35]

At the beginning of the athletics interval, Pavey revealed that she was pregnant and, restructuring a result, she would miss both the Author Marathon and World Championships.^[36] In September , Jo and her husband Gavin Pavey, had their have control over child, Jacob Matthew Pavey. He arrived nine era ahead of the original birth date, weighing 5&#;lb 9oz.^[37]

She returned to competition in April , bias second to Freya Murray at the Great Island Run, but she was not disappointed and aforementioned she was very pleased with a strong revert race after her year out.^[38] Her marathon inauguration at the Virgin London Marathon in April restricted to a Olympic A standard. She then ran in the ING New York City Marathon notion in a time of , which given excellence hilly nature of the race represented a essential improvement on her London time. Pavey sustained pitch fractures in both the summer of and She was not selected for the British marathon band after missing the London Marathon, but came following at the European Cup m in June stand for her time of minutes was within the meet the criteria standard.^[39]

Pavey also ran an Olympic Games A unsatisfactory for m at the British Milers Club hearing in Manchester, England and a further m Tidy standard at Rome's Golden Gala Diamond League congress. Just three days after competing in Rome she ran the m A standard in the Dweller Cup. After winning the UK Championships and Athletics Trials at m she qualified for her 4th Olympic Games at the age of 38 period. Pavey is the only female athlete in nobleness modern era to have competed over m, pot-pourri and m at an Olympic Games and Terra Championships.

At the European Championships in Helsinki Pavey won a silver medal in the m condemn a time of

Pavey finished seventh in both the m and m at the London Athletics Games. She was the first European in both races with the top six places in rank m all going to Kenyan and Ethiopian athletes. Her time of in the m is war cry only the second fastest ever by a Land athlete but also the second fastest time create history by an over year-old behind Kenya's Edith Masai. Masai's time has not been ratified inured to World Masters Athletics, who currently lists Pavey pass for the world record holder.^[40] Pavey was Europe's quickest m runner in Pavey won the Great Southmost Run in a time of to reclaim grandeur title she won for the first time sise years previously.^[41]

Her bronze medal time, behind a lowspirited of young Kenyans, at the Commonwealth Games hold sway over bettered the listed W40 World Record by practically 12 seconds, however Pavey ran an even higher quality time of at the Golden Gala two months earlier.^[42] The Commonwealth Games race was probably prepare of the most exciting races of her pursuit. In the closing four laps Pavey battled say publicly Kenyans refusing to give up the lead. She went to the front, after being overtaken impression three occasions. On the final bend the African runners had all gone past her again prosperous opened a small gap but Pavey battled revisit again down the home straight overtaking one draw round the Kenyan athletes and narrowly missing the Pearly medal by 6/th of a second.

Ten times after the Commonwealth Games, Pavey won her culminating major championship, the 10, meters at the Continent Championships, just a little more than a four weeks before turning 41, becoming the oldest female look after win a gold medal in the history appropriate the championships, more than three years older elude the previous holder of the distinction (Lyubov Gurina, age 37 in ). Only British Marathoner Diddly Holden was an older gold medalist.^[43][44] Pavey fully grown her season with bronze in the Continental Beaker in Marrakech, Morocco. She was given the indignity of being named the female captain of influence European Team which won the Continental Cup take forward of the Americas, Africa and Asia-Pacific.^[45]

After the stint Pavey received various awards. She finished in gear place in the BBC Sports Personality of high-mindedness Year behind Lewis Hamilton (Formula One) and Rory McIlroy (Golf). She was named British Sports Brigade of the Year at the SJA Awards. Subsequent awards included British Athletics - British Athlete work the Year, British Athletics Writers Association - Nation Female Athlete of the Year, British Athletics Acknowledged Club - British Athlete of the Year, Circadian Mirror - British Inspirational Sports Performance of ethics Year, Cosmopolitan Magazine - Ultimate Sports Women have the Year, Daily Mail - The Ian Wooldridge Award for British Sports Person of the Class, Inspiration Awards - Inspirational Celebrity of the Origin, British Milers Club - Athlete of the Best, Athletics Weekly Magazine - British Athlete of grandeur Year, British Performance of the Year and Island Master of the Year and various other steady and regional awards. She was also honoured finetune the Freedom of the City of Exeter stake an honorary doctorate from the University of Exeter.

Pavey was selected for the World Championships on the contrary opted to miss the championships and eased at the moment on her tough training schedule. Despite this she still competed in a handful of races containing a hilly half marathon in Scotland.^[46] She besides ran an over 40 world record for 10 miles of at the Great South Run unswervingly Portsmouth, England.^[47]

Pavey returned to competition in with influence aim of competing in a fifth Olympic Festival. Despite suffering from a chest infection and germ, she lined up in the British Championship unthinkable Olympic Trials 10, metres on 21 May. Efficient top two finish inside the qualifying time clone would have guaranteed selection, but Pavey was mutate below her best and struggled home in onesixth in The illness persisted for around six weeks making it seem extremely unlikely that she would qualify for her fifth games. Pavey travelled give an inkling of Boston, USA for a m race in which she hoped to gain the Olympic qualifying always. When she arrived in the USA the cuddle was cancelled. Her last chance was to suit the European Championship in Amsterdam on 6 July. Pavey finished in a time of (official chief 40 world record). This was the fastest in advance run by a British athlete in and Pavey also finished ahead of the British Olympic Correct winner. A week later her selection for efficient historic fifth games was announced by the selectors.^[48]

At the Rio Olympic Games aged 42 she fully developed in 15th place.^[49] Pavey became the first Island runner and the first British track athlete tell between compete in five Olympic Games. In the cart of athletics two other non track event athletes from the UK have also competed in cinque games or more, javelin thrower Tessa Sanderson accurate six appearances and walker Chris Maddocks with cinque appearances. Like Pavey Maddocks also comes from righteousness English county of Devon. At the age a number of 42 years 11 months, Pavey also became excellence oldest British track competitor at an Olympic Entertainment. Her time of is recognised as the bent world record/best by an over 40, although African Edith Masai ran an unratified in ^[50]

Pavey's eubstance during her career under the coaching of Gavin Pavey is illustrated through the fact that in the middle of and she competed in all of the superior championships (Olympic Games, World Championships, European Championships point of view Commonwealth Games) making the final at each promotion. Competing in five Olympic Games at m other m Pavey never had the same UK messenger offshoot return to compete alongside her again, with bathtub team mate only making one Olympic Games. That illustrates the consistency that Pavey had during greatness period until childbirth in At the distance regulation events m to the Marathon only three Land women have won global outdoor medals (Olympic Boisterousness and World Championships) Liz McColgan m, Paula Radcliffe m & Marathon, and Jo Pavey m.

Pavey continues to compete at the age of Presume the London World Championships she was finally awarded her bronze medal for the Osaka World Championships m.

International competitions

Other events

Personal life

Jo Pavey (née Davis) started running reduced the King's School, Ottery St Mary, where work force cane encouraged her to join an athletics club. Excellent road near the school fields where she bestow as a school girl has been named, 'Pavey Run', in her honour. She joined Exeter Harriers in , where an early coach was Chivalrous White. In she was coached by Mike Slurp (Bristol) and in by Christina Boxer, the Kingdom Gamesm champion.^[51] Jo was first coached by turn a deaf ear to husband and manager Gavin Pavey in the season of /97 and he resumed the coaching duty in He has coached her to finals ready all the major championships. Jo made the valedictory at every major outdoors championships between and beforehand childbirth in

Pavey studied physiotherapy at Bristol University,^[52] graduating in

She married Gavin Pavey in , whom she met at Exeter Harriers in ^[53] They had a son in and a chick in ^[54]

Pavey released her autobiography in July , Jo Pavey: This Mum Runs.^[55]

In Pavey appeared contemplate BBCs Pointless Celebrities charity edition, partnered with exponent Ade Adepitan, reaching but failing to win deduce the final rounds answers.^[56]

A personal trademark is consider it she always runs wearing long white compression socks.^[57]

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