Jennifer Brenda "Jenny" Meadows (born 17 April 1981)[1][2] is a retired British athlete. Her main event was the 800 metres, although she previously competed also over the 400 metres. She won the bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships, and a silver at the 2010 World Indoor Championships. At the European Athletics Championships, Meadows took silver outdoors in 2010 and gold indoors in 2011. She also had some international success as part of the Great Britain women's 4 x 400 metres relay squad.
Meadows was the 2011 Diamond League 800 m winner. In 2009, she was the third-fastest British woman over the distance, and currently is the eighth-fastest as of 2022. She was multiple British national champion (mostly indoors). Meadows, along with other athletes such as Caster Semenya and Alysia Montano, has been noted in the press as one of a number of athletes who were repeatedly denied major international medals by doping competitors, particularly from Russia.[3][4]
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- ^ Bloom, Ben (14 December 2014). "Jenny Meadows left angered by Russian drug claims". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
- ^ "Jenny Meadows: 'I almost retired because I didn't think clean athletes could win'". TheGuardian.com. 26 February 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2016.