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Chelsea Jaensch (born 6 January 1985 in
Adelaide Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to ei ...
) is an Australian athlete specialising in the
long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...
. She made her major competition debut at the age of thirty-one at the 2016 World Indoor Championships finishing eleventh. She returned to competition in 2012 after a seven-year break to focus on education and playing
netball Netball is a ball sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of seven players. The primary objective is to shoot a ball through the defender's goal ring while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own. It is one of a ...
.Official bio
/ref> She represented her country at the
2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...
in Rio de Janeiro finishing 17th and not qualifying for the final. Her personal bests in the event are 6.70 metres outdoors (-0.1 m/s, Canberra 2016) and 6.38 metres indoors (Portland 2016). Chelsea is as well a full-time radiographer.


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1985 births Living people Athletes from Adelaide Australian female long jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Australia Sportswomen from South Australia Australian Athletics Championships winners 21st-century Australian sportswomen {{Australia-athletics-bio-stub