Janine Whitlock (born 11 August 1973) is a former

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er from England who competed at the

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Biography

Whitlock finished second behind Kate Staples in the pole vault event at the 1996 AAA Championships before becoming the British pole vault champion after winning the British

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titles at the 1997 AAA Championships and the 1997 British Athletics Championships. After defending her AAA crown in July, she represented

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at the

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, Malaysia in September. Further AAA titles followed in 1999, 2000 and 2001 sandwiched by her selection to represent

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at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. In 2002 Whitlock was found guilty of methandienone doping. The sample was delivered on 16 June 2002 during the English

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trials. She received a suspension from July 2002 to July 2004 and was stripped of her 2002 AAA title. Her personal best is 4.47 metres, achieved in July 2005 at the

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, in the same meet that Yelena Isinbayeva became the first woman to clear 5 metres.Sporting Heroes: Yelena Isinbayeva
/ref> The same year Whitlock won her sixth and last AAA title.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitlock, Janine 1973 births Living people English female pole vaulters British female pole vaulters Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Great Britain Doping cases in athletics English sportspeople in doping cases Commonwealth Games athletes for England 20th-century English sportswomen

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