KENNEDY Nina

Australia

Athletics

Date of Birth: 5 Apr 1997

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Place of birth: PERTH, WA

Birth Country:

Australia

Place of residence : PERTH, WA

Residence Country:

Australia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's Pole Vault

Schedule

Change

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Pole Vault A	Women's Pole Vault Qualification - Group A	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	Pole Vault
2015	Beijing, CHN	Qual. (NM)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	Pole Vault
2018	1 x 11th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
11	2018	Pole Vault	Lausanne, SUI	4.27

World Indoor Championships

Year	Location	Pole Vault
2018	Birmingham, GBR	8th (4.60)

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Hobbies:

Going to the beach. (athletics.com.au, 09 Feb 2018)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Education:

Behavioral Science - Notre Dame University, Fremantle, WA, AUS

Family:

Partner Devon Mountford

Languages spoken:

English

Club name:

University of Western Australia Athletics Club [Crawley, WA, AUS]

Coach:

Paul Burgess [personal], AUS; James Fitzpatrick [personal], AUS

Injuries:

Between February and July 2019 she suffered tears to her quadricep, hamstring and gluteal muscles, and also experienced two back issues. After almost a year out, she returned to competition in early 2020. (Athletics Australia Facebook page, 01 Feb 2020; emageogroup.com, 04 Oct 2019; worldathletics.org, 01 Jan 2020)

She missed the 2017 World Championships in London, England, due to a quadricep injury. (emageogroup.com, 15 Apr 2019; athletics.com.au, 09 Feb 2018)

Ambition:

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (thewest.com.au, 07 Dec 2020)

Memorable:

Winning bronze at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. (emageogroup.com, 04 Oct 2019)

General Interest

General
INJURY TROUBLE
Due to a series of injuries she missed most of 2019. She said she struggled with being sidelined for so long, but that the memory of winning bronze at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, helped motivate her in recovery. "It was a snowball effect. One [injury] led into the other. I was compensating, I wasn't having enough training and we were kind of rushing back to try to get to [2019] worlds. I think it was a time thing and a body thing, it was a combination of lots of things. It feels like the belief is slipping away a little bit [speaking in October 2019], just because I haven't done it in so long. But looking back on that [Commonwealth Games bronze] I know I can do it. I just need to put my body in the best possible shape and position to do that again." (emageogroup.com, 04 Oct 2019; runblogrun.com, 17 Dec 2020)

YOUNG WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP DEBUT
She was age 18 when she competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, People's Republic of China, after making her first Australian senior team. She says that despite not recording a mark at the tournament, she believes it was a valuable experience. "I was so young and I just really couldn't handle it. Then some really personal stuff happened and there was the pressure of trying to qualify for the [2016] Olympics and I broke down. I couldn't jump for a while, for about a month. I didn't want to train. But if I didn't have that down, I wouldn't know what an up feels like.'' (theaustralian.com.au, 15 Feb 2018; athletics.com.au, 09 Feb 2018)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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