29 May 2020

Jessica Ennis-Hill honoured to win best British women's sporting moment

Jessica Ennis-Hill has won the best British women’s sporting moment for her heptathlon gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games in a BBC Sport vote. 

The 34 year-old, who retired in 2016, came out on top after the BBC asked advocates of 18 sports to nominate one moment each from their sport.

Ennis-Hill’s performance in 2012 won with more than a quarter of the votes.

She told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I feel incredibly honoured and very proud to have come out on top.

“We're very lucky to have such amazing female role models within our country and within our sport and I'm very proud to be one of them.”

Referring to the Games she said: "It is so strange because it is nearly eight years ago but it's still so fresh and so raw.

“When I hear [or see] it, it makes me all twitchy and nervous and fills me with all those emotions again that I had on that day. It's incredible.”

Team GB’s winning Olympic hockey gold at Rio 2016 came in second place and England’s netball performance against Australia to win gold at the Commonwealth Games in 2018 finished in third. 

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