Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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nation | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | March 3, 1962 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | East St. Louis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 178 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Heptathlon , long jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best performance | 7291 points (heptathlon) 7.49 m (long jump) |
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status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962 in East St. Louis , Illinois ) is a former American long jumper and heptathlete . She is a three-time Olympic champion and four-time world champion.
Career
Joyner-Kersee won a total of 6 medals at the Olympic Games : 1988 gold in the heptathlon and long jump, 1992 gold in the heptathlon, plus a silver medal in the heptathlon in 1984 and two bronze medals in the long jump (1992 and 1996 ). She was also world champion four times , twice in the heptathlon ( 1987 and 1993 ) and in the long jump (1987 and 1991 ).
She was the first female athlete to exceed 7,000 points in the heptathlon, in 1986 during the Goodwill Games . Her 7291 points, achieved in 1988, are still a world record today . In addition, the five best performances in the heptathlon were ever achieved by her. To date, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was the best 200-meter runner in a heptathlon (22.30 seconds in Indianapolis) and the best long jumper in a heptathlon (7.27 meters in 1988 in Seoul).
Jackie Joyner-Kersee married her trainer Bob Kersee on January 11, 1986 , her sister-in-law was Florence Griffith-Joyner . Her brother Al Joyner is also a former outstanding athlete as a triple jumper .
In 1987 Joyner-Kersee was honored with the Associated Press Sportsman of the Year award . In 2012 she was inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame .
literature
- zurgams (Ed.): Time leaps. 35 years of the Mösle all-around meeting in Götzis. Bucher, Hohenems 2009, ISBN 978-3-902679-23-9 .
Web links
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ As of 2015
- ↑ Biography of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Record-Setting Olympic Athlete. In: thoughtco.com. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
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SURNAME | Joyner-Kersee, Jackie |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American long jumper, heptathlete and Olympic champion |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1962 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | East St. Louis |