Domestic Championships Record
1994 – 1st AAA U15 Championships
2000 – 1st AAA Indoor Championships, 2nd AAA Championships
2002 – 1st Commonwealth Games Trials, 1st AAA Championships
2003 – 1st AAA Championships
2004 – 1st AAA Championships
2005 – 1st AAA Indoor Championships
2006 – 2nd AAA Indoor Championships, 2nd AAA Championships
2007 – 2nd Norwich Union World Champs Trials
2008 – 1st Olympic Trials
2009 – 3rd Aviva UK Indoor Championships
2010 – 1st Aviva European Trials & UK Championships, 1st CAU Inter-Counties Championships

Major Championships Record
Olympic Games – 2004 6th, 2008 7th
World Championships – 2003 4th
European Championships – 2002 2nd, 2006 DNS
Commonwealth Games – 2002 2nd, 2006 5th

Other noteworthy performances
2010 – 6th European Team Championships
2001 – 1st European Under-23 Championships

The Herne Hill athlete has accumulated a consistent record at major championships, having finished in the top eight at all major championship competitions. Her most successful campaign was in 2002, where Johnson picked up silver medals at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester and the European Championships in Munich, before finishing just outside of the medals at the World Championships in Paris where she finished fourth.

In 2004, Johnson won her third consecutive AAA Championships title and confirming her ability to peak for the main stage, the 28-year-old placed seventh in the Athlens Olympics with a lifetime best of 6.80m but recently her position was improved to sixth, because of the annulment of the results because of the disgraced Marion Jones.

Having established herself as one of the best long jumpers in the world, injury problems ruined much of the following three seasons. In 2005, Johnson missed the outdoor campaign because of a prolapsed disc and having returned to reasonable form in 2006, the former European under-23 champion had a horrible accident at the European Championships. Whilst warming up for the qualification round in wet weather, Johnson slipped on the take off board and landed painfully in the sandpit, suffered a micro fracture of the knee.

Johnson returned for the 2007 campaign but looked a shadow of her former self and subsequently lost her lottery funding but the British no.1 returned with a vengeance in 2008. Free of injury, Johnson improved her lifetime best to 6.81m at the European Cup, before finishing seventh in the Olympic final in Beijing. Johnson competed throughout the indoor season but was forced to miss the European Indoor Championships with a nerve problem in the lower part of her take-off leg.

Ironically, Johnson is allergic to sand and one of her nicknames is ‘clumsy.’

Jade took part in the 2009 series of Strictly Come Dancing.