Regina Jacobs

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Regina Jacobs (born August 28, 1963 in Los Angeles ) is a former American middle and long distance runner .

Since 1987 she has dominated nationally, especially in the 1,500 meter run, and has won a total of 24 US championship titles:

  • in the hall:
    • 1500 m: 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003
    • 1 mile : 1995, 2000, 2002
    • 3000 m : 1999, 2001, 2003

As a participant in major international events, she initially achieved no success. At the World Championships in Rome in 1987 and the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 and in Barcelona in 1992 , she was eliminated over 1500 meters in qualification.

That changed in the mid-1990s. She won the title at the 1995 World Indoor Championships in Barcelona , the silver medal over 1500 meters at the 1997 World Championships in Athens and 1999 in Seville , and the bronze medal over 3000 meters at the 1999 World Indoor Championships in Maebashi .

On February 2, 2003, at the age of 39, she became the first woman in the world to stay under 4 minutes in a 1,500-meter indoor race in Boston . With 3: 59.98 min she beat the 13-year-old world record of the Romanian Doina Melinte by 29 hundredths of a second. Shortly thereafter, she won the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham over the same distance.

In the same year she tested positive for tetrahydrogestrinone (GHG). Jacobs was a prominent customer of the company BALCO , which was at the center of the doping affair that subsequently rocked the American sports scene. Rumors of their use of performance-enhancing substances had been around for a long time. In 2004 she was banned for four years.

Regina Jacobs was 1.68 m tall and had a competition weight of 51 kg.

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  1. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Positive GHG test now also with Regina Jacobs , October 23, 2003
  2. ↑ Sports Illustrated : Second guessing. Track star left wondering about rival's edge in marquee races ( Memento from May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), November 25, 2003
  3. ↑ BBC Sport : Jacobs handed ban , July 17, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Jacobs, Regina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American middle and long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles