Jessica O'Connell (born 10 February 1989 in

Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...

) is a

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athlete competing primarily in

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events. She represented her country at the 2016 World Indoor Championships finishing ninth. In July 2016 she was officially named to Canada's Olympic team in the 5000 meter event.

Competition record

¹Representing the Americas

Personal bests

Outdoor *

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...

– 4:10.61 (Burnaby BC 2019) * One mile – 4:30.75 (Burnaby 2014) *

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ...

– 8:46.61 (Cork, Ireland 2018) *

5000 metres The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a stan ...

– 15:06.44 (Palo Alto 2015) Indoor *

– 8:46 50 (New York 2019) Canadian Record

References

1989 births Living people Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Pan American Games track and field athletes for Canada Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games Canadian female long-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic track and field athletes for Canada Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade silver medalists for Canada Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games 20th-century Canadian women 21st-century Canadian women West Virginia Mountaineers women's track and field athletes West Virginia Mountaineers women's cross country runners {{Canada-athletics-bio-stub