Jenna Randall

Jenna Randall
Personal information
Full name Jenna Margaret Randall
Nationality  United Kingdom
Born (1988-09-20) 20 September 1988
Ascot, England
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Synchronized swimming
Club Rushmoor Synchro

Jenna Randall (born 20 September 1988) is an English former Synchronised swimmer who represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 and London 2012.[1] She is also a three-time Commonwealth Games silver medallist.[2]

Personal life

Randall was born in Ascot, Berkshire, England and educated at Hurst Lodge School, Ascot.[3] She is the older sister of synchronised swimmer Asha Randall.

Career

Jenna first competed at the Commonwealth Games in 2006 in Melbourne where she won the silver medal in the women's solo event.[2] At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, Randall again won the silver medal in the women's solo event and teamed up with Olivia Allison to win silver in the women's duet.[2]

Randall has competed at two Olympic Games. In Beijing 2008 she finished fourteenth in the duet event with Olivia Federici (then known as Olivia Allison), while at the London 2012 Games she finished ninth in the duet, again with Federici and sixth in the team event.

In December 2011 she was one of 12 British female sporting celebrities who posed for Clara Maidment, a charity calendar in aid of Wellbeing of Women; she wore lingerie by Nichole de Carle, jewellery by Salima Hughes and Coster Diamonds.[4] Jenna announced her retirement from synchronised swimming in 2013.

References

  1. "Jenna Randall Olympic Results". sports-reference. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Moore, Tom (19 May 2011). "Jenna Randall". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 5 June 2011.
  3. Sarah Potter, 'Randall and flexible friend plumb the depths in search of Olympic heights', in The Times (London), issue 68824 dated Friday, October 6, 2006; p. 99
  4. Rawi, Maysa (22 December 2011). "Sporting calendar girls! Team GB model for charity shoot ahead of 2012 Olympics". Daily Mail.
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