Viral Olympic track star announces her engagement

Australian observe star Michelle Jenneke was one of many first athletes to actually have a viral second within the age of social media.

Jenneke’s pre-race routine caught the eye of sports activities followers world wide through the 2012 IAAF World Championships. The viral second helped enhance her fame and land her within the 2013 Sports activities Illustrated Swimsuit Challenge.

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Michelle Jenneke is launched earlier than the beginning of the ladies’s 100 meters hurdles on the World Athletics Championships on August 22, 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. (Tim Clayton/Corbis through Getty Pictures)

She has largely saved her non-public life out of the attain of web vultures, primarily solely posting clips and photographs of herself coaching or competing. That was till Sunday, when she revealed she was engaged after an 8 1/2-year relationship that nobody outdoors their households and family members knew about.

“8.5 years within the making,” she captioned her photograph collage on Instagram.

Jenneke bought engaged to Alex Beck, a fellow Australian Olympic athlete. Beck has additionally saved his relationship with Jenneke a secret.

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Alex Beck after competing within the males’s 400 meter heats on the Tokyo Olympics on August 1, 2021. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP through Getty Pictures)

The photographs confirmed the 2 in a loving embrace and Jenneke along with her ring.

Jenneke competed within the Olympic Video games for Australia on the Rio de Janeiro Video games in 2016. Sadly, she did not make it out of the heats of the 100 meter hurdles. She skilled the same occasion through the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris.

Beck represented Australia on the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

Michelle Jenneke smiles after the heats of the ladies’s 100 meters hurdles through the World Athletics Championships on August 22, 2023 in Budapest. (Hannah Peters/Getty Pictures)

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The 2 athletes have gained a number of medals, Jenneke on the youth circuit and Beck on the 2024 Oceania Championships.

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