Toni Minichiello

Toni Minichiello is coach to English athletics champion Jessica Ennis-Hill. The pair met at the Don Valley athletics stadium when Ennis was at a summer holiday camp as a teenager. Since then they have gone on to win countless athletic medals including the gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games..

Minichiello was born in 1966 in Sheffield to Italian parents who were originally from Avellino, near Naples. They had originally met and married in Bedford before moving to Sheffield where Minichiello's father was a steelworker. Toni Minichiello was formerly married to bobsledder Nicola Minichiello.[1]

Awards

Minichiello won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award in 2012 after guiding Ennis to Olympic gold in the Heptathlon at the London 2012 Olympic games.

References

  1. ↑ Turnbull, Simon (30 July 2011). "Meet Minichiello: The big man behind Ennis's grand plan". independent.co.uk. Retrieved 28 September 2014.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/dec/04/jessica-ennis-hill-coach-toni-minichiello-british-athletics

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/athletics/jessica-ennis-hill-coach-toni-minichiello-2890055


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