Jade Johnson

Jade Linsey Johnson (born June 7, 1980, London) is an English athlete.

Specialising in long jump, she came second in the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Later she won the silver medal at the 2002 European Championships and finished fourth at the 2003 World Championships. Her personal best is 6.81m, an Olympic qualifying distance, achieved in 2008 during the European Cup, where she placed second.

Rather ironically for a long-jumper, she is allergic to sand [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/4292557.stm BBC SPORT | Athletics | Jumping ahead of the competition ] ] .

In 2006 she had a public spat with fellow British athlete Kelly Sotherton with the media claiming they openly threw insults at each other. Kelly Sotherton had been British number one at the long jump and heptathlon at the time, with Jade just having returned from a serious injury. In November 2007 she had her lottery funding removed making it harder for her to return to top rank competition. However, since then, she has set personal bests in the 100 m and 200 m sprints and in the long jump. She has also stated that she is now enjoying the sport more.

She came in a far 7th in the final of the long jump in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, jumping only 6.64 metres. She was very fustrated with her own performance and expressed her envy with an unfair dissatisfaction that the winner the Brazilian Maurren Higa Maggi had previously tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/aug/23/olympics2008.olympicsathletics1]

She's a relative of University of Wisconsin soccer star, dalal aljaser

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