‘Best thing I’ve ever done’: Pittman quits Sydney for new life on NSW farm

She once chased Olympic gold and owned multimillion-dollar Sydney real estate. Now, Jana Pittman is wrangling six kids, 42 chickens and a growing farmyard on the NSW coast. The former world champion hurdler has traded prestige suburbia for Port Macquarie paddocks after selling up in the city. Widely regarded as one of Australia’s most versatile athletes, Pittman made her Olympic debut at the 2000 Sydney Games, competed again in Athens in 2004 and later became the first Australian woman to compete at both Summer and Winter Olympic Games when she lined up in bobsleigh at Sochi in 2014. MORE NEWS Lleyton moves overseas, Bec stays in Aus Billy Slater’s wild new life after footy Miranda Kerr’s hometown has a very ugly secret But behind the glittering sporting resume and Sydney property moves was a far tougher chapter. At one point, while retraining as a doctor in her 30s and raising six children on her own, Pittman has revealed she was forced to move into her garage and rent out rooms in her home just to make ends meet. Jana Pittman celebrating her gold medal at the medal ceremony for the Women’s 400m Hurdle during the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2008. Australian athletes Jana Pi...