Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Jackie Joyner - Kersee ( born March 3, 1962 in East St. Louis, Illinois) is a former American long jumper and heptathlete. She is three -time Olympic gold medalist and four -time World Champion.

Career

Joyner - Kersee won at the Olympic Games a total of 6 medals: 1988 gold in the heptathlon and long jump, heptathlon gold in 1992, added a silver medal in the heptathlon in 1984 and two bronze medals in the long jump (1992 and 1996). She was also a total of four times world champion, twice each in the heptathlon (1987 and 1993) and long jump (1987 and 1991).

She was the first athlete that the mark of 7,000 points surpassed in the heptathlon, and indeed during the 1986 Goodwill Games. Your 1988 achieved 7291 points mean still a world record. In addition, the five best performances in the heptathlon was ever achieved by it. To this day, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was the best 200-meter runner in the context of a seven- fight ( 22.30 seconds in 1988 in Indianapolis ) and the best long jumper in the context of a seven- fight ( 7.27 meters in 1988 in Seoul).

Jackie Joyner-Kersee in 1986 married her coach, Bob Kersee, her sister was Florence Griffith Joyner. Her brother Al Joyner is a former outstanding athlete as a triple jumper.

Joyner - Kersee in 1987 was awarded the Sportsman of the Year Award from the Associated Press. In 2012 she was inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame.

Summer Olympic Games 1987 World Championships in Athletics 1991 World Championships in Athletics 1993 World Championships in Athletics 1987 Pan American Games 1988 Summer Olympics World championship Associated Press Athlete of the Year Olga Gyarmati Viorica Viscopoleanu Maurren Maggi Brittney Reese Irina Press Mary Peters (athlete) Nadezhda Tkachenko Denise Lewis Jessica Ennis-Hill Fiona May Niurka Montalvo Eunice Barber Tianna Bartoletta Sabine Braun Tatyana Chernova Name Authority File
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