Jana Pittman

Jana Pittman
Pittman at the Osaka World Championships in 2007.
Personal information
Full nameJana Pittman
NationalityAustralian
Born (1982-11-09) 9 November 1982
Sydney, Australia
EducationWestern Sydney University (MBBS, grad. 2019)
Occupations
  • Athlete
  • doctor
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in) (2014)
Weight82 kg (181 lb) (2014)
Spouses
(m. 2006; div. 2009)
    (m. 2010; div. 2011)
      Paul Gatward
      (m. 2020)
      Life partners
      • James Gurr (2015–2016)
      • Rajiv Chaudhri (2016–2017)
      Children6
      Sport
      Sport
      Events

      Jana Pittman (born 9 November 1982) is an Australian former athlete. During her athletic career Pittman specialised in the 400 metres run and 400-metre hurdles events. She is a two-time world champion in the 400 m hurdles, from 2003 and 2007. She also won the gold medal in this event at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games and was part of Australia's winning 4 × 400 metres relay teams at both events.

      Pittman is one of only eleven athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Armand Duplantis, Jacques Freitag, Yelena Isinbayeva, Kirani James, Faith Kipyegon, Dani Samuels, and David Storl) to win World Championship titles at the youth, junior, and senior levels of an athletic event.

      Pittman also competed in the two-woman bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics, making her the first Australian female athlete to compete in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games.