{{short description|English pole vaulter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = Janine Whitlock | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|8|11|df=yes}} | birth_place = Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England | death_date = | death_place = | sport = Athletics | event = pole vault | height = 165 cm | weight = 54 kg | club = Trafford AC | pb = }}
'''Janine Whitlock''' (born 11 August 1973) is a former pole vaulter from England who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wh/janine-whitlock-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418025540/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wh/janine-whitlock-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-18|title=Olympic Profile|website=Sports Reference}}</ref>
== Biography == Whitlock finished second behind Kate Staples in the pole vault event at the 1996 AAA Championships<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=1 April 2025}}</ref> before becoming the British pole vault champion after winning the British AAA Championships titles at the 1997 AAA Championships<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002135/19970826/020/0020 |title=Athletics |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=26 August 1997 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 April 2025 }}</ref> and the 1997 British Athletics Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=1 April 2025 }}</ref>
After defending her AAA crown in July, she represented England at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in September.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/kuala-lumpur-1998/athletes |title=Malaysia 1998 Team |website=Team England |access-date=1 April 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/kuala-lumpur-1998/athletes|title=1998 Athletes|website=Team England}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3044/19/all|title=England team in 1998|website=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=20 January 2020|archive-date=30 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330125318/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3044/19/all|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/41539|title=Athletes and results|website=Commonwealth Games Federation}}</ref>
Further AAA titles followed in 1999, 2000<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/20000814/247/0022 |title=Weekend results |work=The Scotsman |date=14 August 2000 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=4 April 2025}}</ref> and 2001 sandwiched by her selection to represent Great Britain at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/86943 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=1 April 2025}}</ref>
In 2002 Whitlock was found guilty of methandienone doping. The sample was delivered on 16 June 2002 during the English Commonwealth Games trials. She received a suspension from July 2002 to July 2004 and was stripped of her 2002 AAA title.<ref>{{cite news |first=James |last=Rowland |title=Whitlock's two-year ban after positive steroid test |url=http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/article178245.ece |work=The Independent |date=27 September 2002 |accessdate=2006-11-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927194151/http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/article178245.ece |archivedate=27 September 2007 }}</ref>
Her personal best is 4.47 metres, achieved in July 2005 at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, in the same meet that Yelena Isinbayeva became the first woman to clear 5 metres.<ref>[http://www.sporting-heroes.net/athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=3215 Sporting Heroes: Yelena Isinbayeva]</ref> The same year Whitlock won her sixth and last AAA title.
==Achievements== {| {{AchievementTable}} |- !colspan="5"|Representing {{GBR2}} and {{ENG}} |- |1998 |Commonwealth Games |Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |4th | |- |1999 |World Indoor Championships |Maebashi, Japan |12th | |- |2000 |Olympics |Sydney, Australia |20th | |- |2001 |World Championships |Edmonton, Canada |9th | |- |rowspan="2" | 2005 |European Indoor Championships |Madrid, Spain |9th | |- |World Championships |Helsinki, Finland |14th | |}
==See also== *List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences
==External links== *{{World Athletics||name=Janine Whitlock}}
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Footer UK NC Pole Vault Women}} {{British Indoor Athletics Championships women's pole vault champions}} {{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitlock, Janine}} Category:1973 births Category:Living people Category:English women pole vaulters Category:British women pole vaulters Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic athletes for Great Britain Category:Doping cases in the sport of athletics Category:English sportspeople in doping cases Category:Commonwealth Games athletes for England Category:20th-century English sportswomen