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| Full name | Jana Pittman |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 9 November 1982 Sydney, Australia |
| Education | Western Sydney University (MBBS, grad. 2019) |
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| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) (2014)[1] |
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) (2014) |
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| Children | 6 |
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Jana Pittman (born 9 November 1982) is an Australian former athlete. During her athletic career Pittman specialised in the 400 metres run and 400-metre hurdles events. She is a two-time world champion in the 400 m hurdles, from 2003 and 2007. She also won the gold medal in this event at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games and was part of Australia's winning 4 × 400 metres relay teams at both events.
Pittman is one of only eleven athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Armand Duplantis, Jacques Freitag, Yelena Isinbayeva, Kirani James, Faith Kipyegon, Dani Samuels, and David Storl) to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event.
Pittman also competed in the two-woman bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics, making her the first Australian female athlete to compete in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games.[2][3]
- ^ "Jana Pittman". sochi2014.olympics.com.au. Australian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- ^ Sharwood, Anthony (8 May 2013). "Jana Pittman is happier, meatier and cooler in a bobsled". The Advertiser. Archived from the original on 5 October 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ Webster, Andrew (1 February 2014). "Jana Pittman and Astrid Radjenovic happy to trade track for ice on bobsleigh team". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 February 2014.