Jo Ankier
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Joanna Ankier (5 Aug 1984) is a former international track runner who held three British National Records and is now a British television personality. Ankier is currently a television host for BT Sport Boxing & reporter for Amazon Prime Video on football as well as covering four Olympic Games for ESPN and Olympic Channel News.
Personal information | |
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Born | 5 Aug 1984 (Age 39 years) London, England, United Kingdom[1] |
Height | 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in)[1] |
Sport | |
Club | Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers |
Retired | 2008 |
Now coaching | Bryan Smith[1] |
Achievements and titles | |
Highest world ranking | No. 8 – May 2005 |
Personal best | 3000 Steeplechase – 9:43.88 |
Updated on Aug 2014 |
A champion of sustainability, Jo is also the presenter of the E1 Series electric powerboat racing and occasional presenter of Extreme E Electric RallyCross racing.
Ankier is a host on CBS Sports Serie A programming airing across America on Sundays on CBS and Paramount Plus. Ankier is also the live post-fight reporter and a studio host for BT Sport on their boxing fight nights for the prestigious FightNight Live programming and is BT Sport's side-line reporter for "MLB London," covering the first ever Major League Baseball series to be played in Europe in June 2019. Ankier covered match days and weekly news for Premier League's international audience during the 2019/2020 season interviewing players and managers such as Ndombele, Frank Lampard, Unai Emery, Virgil Van Dyk on a regular basis.
Ankier has covered four Olympic Games as host and reporter (2021, 2016, 2012, 2004) and has been a long time contributor to ESPN in Los Angeles for whom she covered both the London 2012 Olympics as well as Rio2016 amongst other regular year-round event sports coverage reporting for the international versions of their flagship show Sportscenter on NBA, soccer, tennis, boxing, sailing and hosting live events such as the ESPY awards and X Games. Ankier was the live studio presenter of “Beyond the Game” world sports show filmed out of Istanbul for TRT World during the 2018 Fifa World Cup and has also been a regular contributor to The Tennis Channel out of Los Angeles.
Ankier is a former British steeplechase athlete who competed at the IAAF World Championships in 2005 and held British national records for the 1500, 2000 and 3000 metre steeplechases.