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Joanne ("Jo") Pavey (nee Davis, born 20 September, 1973 in Honiton, Devon) is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for Great Britain, including the London 2012 summer Olympic Games.
She competes mainly in the 5000 metres distance but also on 1500 metres, 3000 metres and (since 2007) 10,000 metres events, and road racing. She has best times of 5000m 14:39.96, 3000m 8:31.27 and 1500m 4:01.79. In 2012 she won a silver medal at the European Athletics Championships in the 10000m and in 2006 she won silver in the 5000 m in the Commonwealth Games.
At global level she has narrowly missed out on medals, most notably in the 10000m at the 2007 World Championships where she was 4th and at 5000m in the 2004 Olympic Games where she finished 5th. On 20 May 2007, she won the 10 km Great Manchester Run, a feat she repeated the following year.
As a senior athlete she is now coached by her husband and manager Gavin Pavey.
Career
Early career
Since 1987 Jo Pavey (née Davis) has been a member of Exeter Harriers Athletics Club in Devon, England. In March 1988 she started to be coached by the middle distance coach Tony White.
In July 1988 she won the English Schools 1500 m title in a new British record (under 15). Running for Devon, she finished eight places and 13 seconds ahead of Paula Radcliffe, running for Bedfordshire. Pavey then won the national (AAA) 800 m and 1500 m titles, a feat she repeated in 1990.
A five time national champion in the women's 5000 m, she is currently second on the British all time list for 5000 m with a time of 14 minutes 39.96 seconds and the fastest at 3000m indoors.
Jo Pavey set the national record for 3000 m indoors in February 2004 in Birmingham, England and broke her own record in January 2007 in Stuttgart, Germany with a time of 8:31.50. The year of 2004 was a vintage year during which she won a European Bronze medal in the European Cross Country Championships, a fifth place over 5000 m in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and a national indoor record over 3000 m. In 2005 and 2006 she was Europe's fastest 5000 m runner. She has won the National Championships at 5000 m on five occasions (2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012 and in 2007 and 2008 she won both the 5000 m and the 10,000 m. In 2010 she added a third 10000m title. Her first UK national title came at 1500m in 1997 giving a fifteen year span between her first senior title and her 5000m victory in 2012.
She has doubled up at various championships including a ninth place in the 5000 m following her fourth place in the 10,000 m in the 2007 World Championships in Athletics. However, in the 2004 Olympic Games she ran a 5000 m semifinal at midnight and then a late-night 5000m final (5th place) and followed this punishing schedule by attempting to run the 1500 m heats the following day. She did not progress beyond the 1500 m heats.
During 2003 she finished fourth in the 1500 m with a 4:01.79 clocking and third in the 3000 m with a time of 8:37.89 at the World Athletics Final in Monaco. In cup events she has won two European Cup titles and representing Europe she was third in the 2002 IAAF World Cup over 5000 m.
Track and road running
Most of her career has been as a track runner but since 2006 she has been making a gradual move to road running. After illness ruled her out of the 5000 m and led to a disappointing 12th place in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, she immediately announced her intentions of continuing her career until 2012 and a potential move up in distance to the marathon. Her road running career major race wins have included the Great South Run (2006) and the Great Manchester Run (2007, 2008). She also finished 3rd (winner Gete Wami, Ethiopia) in the Great North Run (2008) in the closest finishes the event has seen with two seconds covering the first three athletes.
She managed to finish fourth in the 10000 m at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, behind Tirunesh Dibaba. She qualified to compete in the 5000 m and 10000 m at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She did not start in the 5000 m but finished twelfth in the 10000 m event, with a time of 31:12.30.
At the beginning of the 2009 athletics season, Pavey revealed that she was pregnant and, as a result, she would miss both the 2009 London Marathon and 2009 World Championships. On the 14th September 2009, Jo and her husband Gavin Pavey, had their first child, Jacob Matthew Pavey. He arrived nine days ahead of the original birth date, weighing 5lb 9oz.
She returned to competition in April 2010, finishing second to Freya Murray at the Great Ireland Run, but she was not disappointed and said she was very pleased with a strong return race after her year out. Her marathon debut at the Virgin London Marathon in April led to a 2:28:23 Olympic A standard. She then ran in the ING New York City Marathon finishing in a time of 2:28:42, which given the hilly nature of the race represented a significant improvement on her London time. She was not selected for the British marathon team after missing the 2012 London Marathon, but came second at the European Cup 10000m in June and her time of 31:32.22 minutes was within the qualifying standard.
Pavey also ran an Olympic Games A standard for 5000m at the British Milers Club meeting in Machester, England and a further 5000m A standard at Rome's Golden Gala Diamond League meeting. Just three days after competing in Rome she ran the 10000m A standard in the European Cup. After winning the UK Championships and Olympic Trials at 5000m she qualified for her 4th Olympic Games at the age of 38 years old.
At the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki Pavey won a silver medal in the 10000m in a time of 31:49.03.
Achievements
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing  England
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| 2006 | Commonwealth Games | Melbourne, Australia | 2nd | 5000 m | |
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| 1997 | World Championships | Athens, Greece | semi-final | 1500 m | 4:11.22 |
| 2000 | Olympic Games | Sydney, Australia | 12th | 5000m | 14:58.27 |
| 2001 | World Championships | Edmonton, Canada | 11th | 5000 m | 15:28.41 |
| 2002 | World Cup | Madrid, Spain | 3rd | 5000 m | 15:20.10 |
| 2003 | World Championships | Paris, France | 10th | 1500 m | 4:03.03 |
| 2004 | Olympic Games | Athens, Greece | heats | 1500 m | 4:12.50 |
| 5th | 5000 m | 14:57.87 | |||
| 2007 | World Championships | Osaka, Japan | 4th | 10,000m | 32:03.81 |
| 2008 | Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 12th | 10,000 m | 31:12.30 |
| 2012 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 2nd | 10,000 | 31:49.03 |
| Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 7th | 10,000 m | 30:53.20 | |
Other events
- 2008 Great North Run - third place (half marathon)
- 2008 Great Manchester Run - first place (10k)
- 2007 Great Manchester Run - first place (10k)
- 2006 Great South Run - first place (10 miles)
- 2004 European Cross Country Championships - bronze medal
- 2003 IAAF World Athletics Final - third place (3000 m)
- 2003 IAAF World Athletics Final - fourth place (1500m)
Biography
Jo Pavey (nee Davis) started running at school where teachers encouraged her to join an athletics club. She joined Exeter Harriers, where an early coach was Christina Boxer, the 1982 Commonwealth Games 1500m champion.
Pavey studied physiotherapy at Bristol University, graduating in 1995.
She is married to Gavin Pavey, whom she met through Exeter Harriers , and they have a son Jacob (born in 2009).
References
- Independent article 4 Nov 2011 http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/london-eye-pavey-follows-in-footsteps-of-her-old-rival-radcliffe-6256817.html
- Phillips, Michael (2008-08-16). Olympics: Dibaba's pace leaves Pavey dismayed with best 10,000m. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2009-03-17.
- Pregnant Pavey set to miss London. BBC Sport (2009-03-17). Retrieved on 2009-03-17.
- http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/news/Feniton-Olympic-athlete-baby/article-1349918-detail/article.html
- Returning Jo Pavey delighted with second place finish in Great Ireland run. The Daily Mail (2010-04-19). Retrieved on 2010-04-24.
- Ramsak, Bob (2012-06-04). Moreira and Kemboi Arikan take the European Cup 10,000m titles. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-06-10.
- Spikes Magazine http://www.spikesmag.com/features/stephtwellandjopaveytalkrunning.aspx
- London 2012 profile http://www.london2012.com/athlete/pavey-joanne-1094252/
- Exeter Harriers website http://www.exeterharriers.co.uk/index.php/13-news/60-personal-message-from-jo-pavey
External links
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