Christian Harley Jantzen (born 7 November 1977) is an Australian sports, journalist, reporter and radio host. Jantzen was born in Sydney and attended

Newington College , motto_translation = To Faith Add Knowledge , location = Inner West and Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales , country = Australia , coordinates = , pushpin_map = A ...

. (1986–1995)Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp99

Career

He is a graduate of the Max Rowley Media School, and his final two years of high school were spent learning the trade of a sports journalist/reporter in the Sydney newsroom at Channel 9 before producing and hosting programs on Sydney radio station

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. He joined Fox Sports News in 2007. As a journalist Jantzen won "Best Sports Story" (Television) at the

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in 2004 following his story on a 16-year-old

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er who came back to play after being struck down with cancer and his brother donating some

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for a life-saving transplant. His in-depth knowledge of sport is his best ATTRIBUTE as a reporter and his specialist sports are AFL,

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and

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

. After gaining experience at channels 7, 9 and the ABC in Sydney, he spent a year working with

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before moving to Melbourne. Despite the fact that he has been able to report on just about every big sporting event, Jantzen lists his greatest event to cover was the

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, where he was a reporter/producer for Channel 7, but he thinks it doesn't get any better than a

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rugby league match. He lists his favourite sport as rugby league, with a disturbing passion for Benji Marshall and the Wests Tigers. Jantzen also has a keen interest in tennis, golf, AFL and cricket.

References

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