Name: Jessica Bullenkamp
E-Mail: jesbul158@web.de
ICQ: 167833000
Birthday: 15/08/1985
Zodiac sign: Leo

Occupation: Student of Molecular Medicine in Freiburg, Germany
Family: 2 younger (but taller) brothers aged 18 and 21
Languages: German, English, French, Swedish, little Spanish and Norwegian
Hobbies: reading, music, movies, sports, computer

Favorite…
Music: almost everything except for Hip Hop, Techno, folk music; e.g. Green Day, Simple Plan, The Rasmus, Revolverheld, Die Ärzte, Sunrise Avenue, Bryan Adams, Blink 182, Beatles, R.E.M. and so on :)
Movies: Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Full Monty, Shrek, Disney's Robin Hood, Bridget Jones
Books: Dan Brown - Angels&Demons, everything by Ken Follett & Kathy Reichs, in general historical novels or thrillers
Food: Mexican & Italian, (almost) everything my Mum cooks
Sports: Athletics of course; also football (soccer), handball, swimming, ski-jumping - I can watch almost everything as long as it's exciting…

My own sports "career"
Although I was never really successful, sport was always playing a great part in my life. I started athletics at the age of 8 (I think…) and I stayed with it for about 10 years, when other things turned out to be more important. Myself I never did a heptathlon, my disciplines have always been the short distances, 100m and 200m, looking back I regret that a little. After my athletics time I played football for a year or so, until I had to quit sports because of problems with my knee. Now I'm trying to keep fit with inline-skating, biking and whatever else comes into my mind.

How I got to decathlon?
Mainly because of my parents. As far as I know they always used to be interested in athletics in general and decathlon in particular.They even saw legends like Daley Thompson or Jürgen Hingsen live during the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984. My first encounter with world-class decathlon was probably at the age of 8, when we visited the World Championships in Stuttgart, of course only few memories are left from that time, but my fascination for athletics started then. The next year our annual visits to the Mecca of Decathlon started, Dani, who joined us in 2000, and I will hopefully continue that tradition. Together with my family I also visited big events like the EC in Munich 2002 or the WC one year later in Paris. And of course we are also planning to see the WC this year in Berlin But still Götzis is every year's highlight for me concerning decathlon, nowhere else you are that close to the athletes.