Johanna Jackson was aiming for a top ten finish and the UK record-holder performed up to her expectations, finishing tenth in 1:33:33.
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JACKSON STEPPING TO SUCCESS | Sporting Life | Tour de France, European Athletics Championships
By Chris Hammer – Johanna Jackson is confident the European Championships and Commonwealth Games will be significant stepping stones in putting her on course for a medal at London 2012.
Britain’s number one female race walker naturally harbours dreams of success at a home Olympics and based on her current progression over 20 kilometres, she feels it can be a realistic target.
Jackson smashed her personal best and the British record by 35 seconds last month when clocking an impressive 1:30.41 to finish seventh in a high-quality field at the IAAF Race Walking Challenge in La Coruna and has aims of going even faster heading into her fifth major championships.
Her first objective is to break the 90-minute barrier for the first time, preferably in Barcelona as she bids for a top eight finish, before focusing on topping the podium at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in October.
Fresh from her first test of high altitude training at Font-Romeu in France, the 25-year-old flew out to Barcelona on Sunday and is now raring to go ahead of her 20km race on Wednesday morning.
via JACKSON STEPPING TO SUCCESS | Sporting Life | Tour de France, European Athletics Championships.
iaaf.org – Zhu and Pascual nab La Coruña titles – IAAF Race Walking Challenge
China’s Yafei Zhu and Spain’s Beatriz Pascual clinched their respective 20Km victories to highlight the “Gran Premio Cantones de Marcha” – the Spanish leg in 2010 IAAF Race Walking Challenge held Saturday 19 on a cloudy and ideal day for Race Walking. While the 21-year-old Chinese retained his title from last year with a 1:21:11 clocking, the Spaniard Pascual managed her first ever victory at an IAAF World Challenge permit meeting thanks to a 1:28:05 performance. Coming slightly over one month ahead of the European championships the 28-year-old Barcelona-born walker propels herself into the medal picture.
It’s also worth mentioning the fifth place managed by Spain’s Julia Takacs (1:30:14, a National U-23 record) and the seventh place of Britain’s Johanna Jackson 1:30.41, a new national record.
via iaaf.org – Zhu and Pascual nab La Coruña titles – IAAF Race Walking Challenge.
ChronicleLive – Sport – Athletics – Johanna Jackson is first Briton on podium
Bill McGuirk, Evening Chronicle
JOHANNA JACKSON has written her name into the history books by becoming the first Briton to win a medal in an IAAF Race Walking Challenge event, taking bronze in Sesto San Giovanni, Italy, last weekend.
The 25-year-old, who was one of the first of England’s track and field athletesto be named for the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in October, recorded a season’s best of 1 hour 32 minutes three seconds for the 20km contest behind Portugal’s Vera Santos and Germany’s Melanie Seeger, who took gold and silver respectively.
The former North East Junior Cross-Country champion went through the halfway mark in 45min 42secs despite picking up her second disqualification card at the seven-kilometre stage, which meant she had to be extremely careful for the rest of the race.
Her caution over the remainder of the race resulted in her becoming the first Brit to reach the podium.
Teessider Jackson, now based in Leeds at the National Race Walking Centre, said: “This is a major breakthrough for me to make the podium in an IAAF Challenge event.“I’m disappointed with the time as I had to hold back after receiving my second red card. However, I know there is a lot more in the tank.”
Jackson has a busy summer schedule before embarking for India and will now turn her attentions to competing for GB in the IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Mexico later this month.
via ChronicleLive – Sport – Athletics – Johanna Jackson is first Briton on podium.
Race walker Jackson is first ever Brit to reach podium | More than the games
JO Jackson has made history by becoming the first Brit in history to win a medal at an IAAF Race Walking Challenge, scooping bronze in Sesto San Giovanni, Italy on Saturday.
SEASON'S BEST: Jo Jackson sets her fastest time of the year in Italy and becomes the first Brit in history to reach the IAAF Race Walking Challenge podium (Getty Images)
The 25-year-old clocked a season's best of 1.32.03 hours in the 20km race behind Portugal's Vera Santos and Germany's Melanie Seeger, who took gold and silver respectively.
Jackson passed the halfway mark in 45.42 minutes and despite picking up her second disqualification card at the seven kilometer stage, which meant she had to hold back for the rest of the race, she still become the first ever Brit to reach the podium.
She said: “This is a major breakthrough for me to make the podium in an IAAF Challenge event.
“I'm disappointed with the time as I had to hold back after receiving my second red card at seven kilometres, I know there is a lot more in the tank.”
Jackson will now turn her attentions to competing for Great Britain in the IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Mexico in later this month.
via Race walker Jackson is first ever Brit to reach podium | More than the games.
Jo Jackson selected for IAAF Race Walking World Cup to be held in Chihuahua, Mexico on the 15-16 May 2010.
UK Athletics today announced Jo Jackson (Andi Drake / Maureen Jackson) has been selected to represent the Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland team at the IAAF Race Walking World Cup to be held in Chihuahua, Mexico on the 15-16 May 2010.
National record holder Jackson was selected for the 20k distance following her international standard performance of 92:37 in Lugano, Switzerland in March 2010 and a convincing win at the World trials and UK Championships held in Victoria Park, London on Sunday 11 April.
Despite being ill during the race, Jackson stormed to victory in the capital city in 99:14 with over six minutes to spare over Niobe Menedez (Steyning) in second in 105:45 and Fiona McGorum (Leicester) 113:06.
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Top British race walker Jo Jackson (Redcar WC) will compete at Victoria Park, London on Sunday 11 April in a bid to make the Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland Team which will contest the IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Chihuahua, Mexico, 15-16 May.
Jackson, who set two British 5000m walk records in 2009 including an early season world-leading mark of 20:46.58 and then a British 20km walk record of 1:31:16, will make her third outing of the season in the senior women’s race.
She said: “Winter prep has gone really well. After spending the last two winters training out in Australia I decided to stay home this year and tough out the English weather with my new training group in Leeds. The big change for me since the summer has been relocating to Leeds Met Carnegie now the UK National Race Walking Centre. Its great to finally have training partners pushing me in sessions on a daily basis after training solo for so long. After the disappointment of being disqualified in Berlin I've also worked very hard on improving my technique over the winter months.
“I'm looking forward to the trial race this weekend and feel confident that I'm in shape to break my PB and finally break 91 mins, I've already broke my 10km PB by a minute this season so my 20km time definitely needs revising.”
The London venue also encompasses the National 20km Race Walking Championships, junior 10km Championships and RWA Younger Age Group Championships in a four race format beginning at 13:00.
ChronicleLive – Sport – Athletics – Trial verdict may favour Johanna Jackson
BRITAIN’S No 1 race walker Johanna Jackson goes into this weekend’s Common-wealth Games Trials confident that a good performance will set her up for one of the busiest campaigns of her young athletics career.
The former North Eastern Counties under-20 cross-country champion and 12th-placed National finisher has sprung to dominance in her new chosen sport in the past few years.
So much so that this year sees her focusing not only on a place in the England team for Delhi, but also making it to the World Cup in Mexico and the European Championships in Barcelona.
At 25, Jackson has already competed in the previous Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, two World Championships and also the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 so this year is another stride on the way to the London Olympicsin 2012.
Now based at the National Race Walking Centre in Leeds, Jackson has already shown good form in two early-season competitions.
She produced a British 10km record of 43min 52secs in Coventry on March 6 and, eight days later, in Lugano, Switzerland, recorded a world-class time of 92:37 against an international line-up over 20km.
via ChronicleLive – Sport – Athletics – Trial verdict may favour Johanna Jackson.
Athletics Weekly – Jackson smashes UK 10km race-walk record
By Steven Mills, March 9th 2010
Johanna Jackson shaved one-minute from her two-year-old UK 10km race-walk record and lifetime best at the CAU Inter Counties Championships
Jo Jackson smashed her UK 10km race-walk record by one minute at the CAU Inter Counties Championships at the University of Warwick on Saturday.
The Middlesbrough & Cleveland athlete clocked a PB of 43:52, which corresponds to a 60-second improvement on her two-year-old lifetime best and UK record.
Jackson’s form indicates she has a very good chance at defending her title at the EAA Grand Prix 20km in Lugano this weekend, where Jackson broke the UK 20km race-walk record last year.
Jackson put the improvement down to her decision to relocate to the UKA National Race Walking Centre at Leeds met Carnegie, where she is studying for a degree in Sports Performance.
Jackson said: “This has enabled me to train regularly with other athletes as opposed to on my own and have also benefited from the environment at Carnegie and the medical and support services that are available on Campus”
via Athletics Weekly.