Personal Best for Jenna Secures Bronze in Germany
Jenna McCorkell has clinched qualification for next year’s Winter Olympics. The 23 year old from Coleraine will head to Vancouver in February after winning her
seventh British Ladies Championship title on Saturday. McCorkell will make history
as the first Northern Ireland skater to qualify for the Winter Olympics and with her place in Europe’s top 10 now established, her performances so far this augur well
for a top 20 finish when she takes to the ice in Vancouver.
With a tremendous skate Jenna McCorkell took her first major Senior International medal this season in Dortmund Germany in the NRW Trophy. McCorkell has been threatening to take a medal for some time this year, however with an overall personal best score this season it would appear that Jenna’s fortunes are finally changing.
The NRW Trophy had most of Europe’s top competitors in it and naturally her
coach Yuri Bureiko was delighted with her performances, as was Jenna who is 7 times British Senior Champion:
‘I am delighted with both programmes this weekend and to take a medal would
have been really great in such a big field but to make a personal best overall score as well as take a medal, well that is really sweet.’
Jenna will now be working with Shanette Folle before she competes in the
European, Olympic and World Championships in the New Year. Jenna’s husband
Kevin Van der Perren who is also coached by Yuri clinched the bronze in the men’s event earlier in the day!
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