| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Born | 19 August 1996 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Long distance running |
Medal record | |
Jessica Gibbon (born 19 August 1996) is a British cross country runner. She won the 2022 English National Cross Country Championships. [1]
From Henley-on-Thames, she competed for Oxfordshire in inter-counties cross country and was a junior British international athlete. [2]
She is a member of Reading Athletics Club. [3] [4] In January 2020, she won the South of England Cross Country Championships. [5] The following month, she was the Southern Area champion at the Senior Women's Cross-Country Championships in Nottingham. [6] She won the Milton Keynes Cross Country challenge in 2021. [7] She was a gold medalist in the team event at the 2021 European Cross Country Championships in Dublin, finishing eleventh in the individual race to be the third Brit across the line counting to the tally. [8]
She finished seventh in the Home Countries Cross Country International in Dundonald, Northern Ireland on 22 January 2022. [9] In February 2022, she won the South of England cross country championships and the English National Cross Country Championships. [10] [11] [12] She was part of the British team which won the silver medal at the 2022 European Cross Country Championships, placing fourteenth overall in the individual race. [13]
She won the South of England cross country championships in Beckenham in January 2024. [14] In October 2024, she became only the second British runner after Roger Hackney to win the Roeselare cross country in Belgium, part of the 2024/2025 CrossCup series. [15] She was selected for the British team for the 2024 European Cross Country Championships in Antalya, Turkey, where she finished twelfth to help Britain win the silver medal in the team race. [16] [17] [18]
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