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Jana writes just as she speaks: with honesty, conviction and humour, making her path to self-acceptance relatable for all of us.
‘It took oodles of self-reflection before I came to realise my quirks developed into my resilience, my emotion gave me my empathy and my drama fuelled my passion. Too often I tried to fit in, when I was born to stand out.’
Throughout this book, Jana shares her life with you: the good, the bad and the ugly. Her stories of sport, medicine, divorce, loss, solo parenting – and media shenanigans – are told without embellishment or excuses. On her own admission: ‘I often learned the hard way, battled against my will, rumbled with my demons, fought with self-acceptance, and boxed with negative inner chatter. I have always been too honest, shared too much and talked too fast.’
But over the years, she’s made peace with those demons, owning her flaws and choosing how to use her failures to become a stronger person – to the point where she now considers that the greatest success in life is believing in yourself.
Jana’s life lessons are inspirational, not bec
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Jana Pittman
Australian hurdler and bobsledder
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.[3][4]
Early career
Pittman attended Matthew Pearce Primary School, Crestwood High School, Mount St Benedict Coll
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Jana Pittman
Jana Pittman, 35, Sydney is best known for her illustrious 14-year-long track and field career specialising in the 400 metres and the 400 metre hurdles. The three-time Olympian who clinched gold at the World Championships and at the 2006 Commonwealth Games respectively, made history in 2014 when she competed in the nation’s Winter Olympic women’s bobsled team, and became the first Australian woman to have participated in both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
Today, the indefatigable single mother-to-three, who recently published a biography entitled ‘Just Another Hurdle’, is working hard to fulfil yet another childhood dream – to become a doctor.
Jana is also a newly appointed Ambassador to the InsideOut Institute – Australia’s first institute for research and clinical excellence in eating disorders based at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. Having developed the potentially devastating eating disorder, bulimia nervosa in 2004, Jana spent the next decade battling a dysfunctional relationship with food while at the pinnacle of her sporting
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