Jennifer Stoute

Jennifer Stoute
Medal record

Women's Athletics
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	4x400 m relay
European Championships
	1990 Split	4x400 m relay
Representing England
Commonwealth Games
	1990 Auckland	4x400 m relay
	1990 Auckland	4x100 m relay

Jennifer ("Jenny") Elaine Stoute (born 16 April 1965) is an English former sprinter. She represented Great Britain at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, where she won a bronze medal in the 4x400 metres relay. She also appeared as "Rebel" in the ITV show Gladiators from 1996-1999.

Biography

Stoute was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England to Barbadian parents. She first came to international attention, when she reached the 200 metres final at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, where she pulled up injured and failed to finish. In 1988, at the Olympic Games, she was a member of the British 4 × 400 m relay quartet that finished sixth in the final. In 1989, she finished fourth in the 200 metres final at the European Indoor Championships.

In January 1990, at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland, Stoute was fourth in the 200 metres final, just one one-hundredth of a second behind bronze medalist Pauline Davis. She also finished fifth in the 400 metres final before winning two relay medals, silver in the 4 × 100 m and gold in the 4 × 400 m, along with Angela Piggford, Linda Keough and Sally Gunnell. At the 1990 European Championships in Split she won a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 m relay, along with Pat Beckford, Keough and Gunnell. At the 1991 World Championships, she again succumbed to injury pulling up in her 200m quarter-final and forcing her out of the relay.

The peak of Stoute's career came in 1992, at the Barcelona Olympics, where she ran her lifetime best in the 200 metres of 22.73 secs^[1] to reach the semi-finals, before going on to earn a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 m relay along with Phylis Smith, Sandra Douglas and Sally Gunnell. She competed at the 1993 World Championships, where she reached the quarter-finals of the 200 metres. After two years struggling with injuries, she finished fifth in the 200 metres at the 1996 British Olympic trials in Birmingham, failing to earn selection. Her final major Competition was the 1997 World Indoor Championships.

From 1996 - 1999 she appeared as "Rebel" in the TV show Gladiators. She also returned for the 2008 revival and appeared in two Legend specials.

Stoute and her husband, fellow sprinter John Regis, have two daughters, both born in Bromley, Greater London: Alicia Jazmin (born 2001) and Renee Stefani (born 2005).

References

↑ http://www.gbrathletics.com/uk/wa99.htm

External links

Jennifer Stoute profile at IAAF
sports-reference

UK National Championship winners in women's 200 metres

1977-1997	1977-78 Sonia Lannaman 1979 Heather Hunte 1980 Kathy Cook 1981 Linsey MacDonald 1982 Bev Callender 1983 Kathy Cook 1984 Heather Hunte 1985-86 Kathy Cook 1987-88 Paula Dunn 1989 Jenni Stoute 1990 Phylis Smith 1991 Linda Keough 1992 Phylis Smith 1993 Katharine Merry 1997 Katharine Merry

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