Jana Rawlinson

Two-time 400-meter hurdles world champion Jana Rawlinson has changed coaches and targeted a comeback next month in Poland as she prepares for August's athletics World Championships in Berlin. The 26-year-old Rawlinson won the world title at Osaka, Japan, in 2007 just eight months after giving birth to her son, but missed the Beijing Olympics last August because of recurring foot injuries. The Australian runner confirmed she'd split with husband and coach Chris Rawlinson, a British hurdler who won a Commonwealth Games gold medal in 2002. Rawlinson has appointed Craig Hilliard as her coach for a second time. She is scheduled to return to competition ... Read Full Story

Athletics queen Jana Rawlinson's life is in turmoil after the reigning world champion split from her husband and moved back in with her parents. The Daily Telegraph can reveal Rawlinson is living with her parents in the Hills district while husband and coach Chris has stayed at the couple's Canberra home. Their two-year-old son Cornelis is with his father. The couple is planning to sell their family home, which is located near the Australian Institute of Sport, where Rawlinson trains. The marital crisis comes as Rawlinson's hopes of defending her 400m hurdles world title ebb away because of injury. Despite the break-up, the two-time ... Read Full Story

JANA Rawlinson has begun the long journey home to Australia from her UK base after making the heartbreaking decision to withdraw from the Beijing Olympics. Early this morning Australian time, Rawlinson left her home in Leicestershire to travel to Heathrow Airport and fly back to Sydney. The shellshocked reigning world 400m hurdles champion is expected to arrive in Sydney late on Friday night and will hold a press conference in Sydney on Sunday. Her management team said she would hold the press conference - at which she would explain both the extent of her injury and her heartbreak - because of the overwhelming interest ... Read Full Story

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