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Jackie JOYNER-KERSEE | Profile | World Athletics https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/jackie-joyner-kersee-14314065 Jackie JOYNER-KERSEE | Profile | World Athletics. Country. United States. Born. 03 MAR 1962. Athlete Code. 14314065. Follow me. Honours Summary. 3 x Olympic champion. 4 x World champion. 1 x Olympic Games Silver medallist. 2 x Olympic Games Bronze medallist. More Honours. Personal Bests. Seasons Bests. Results. Progression. Honours. Legend.
Hall of Fame Profile - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) https://worldathletics.org/news/news/hall-of-fame-profile-jackie-joyner-kersee-u JJK, as she is widely known, is often considered to be the greatest all-round woman athlete ever and the famous American magazine Sports Illustrated voted her The Greatest Female Athlete of the 20th Century. Joyner-Kersee won the long jump and heptathlon by huge margins at the 1987 IAAF World Championships and repeated the same ...
Four decades of influential women at the World Athletics Championships ... https://worldathletics.org/news/series/four-decades-influential-women-world-athletics... Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Joyner-Kersee went into the 1987 World Championships as the world heptathlon record-holder and she ended it as a two-time world champion. She first won the seven-discipline event, scoring 7128 points to take her first heptathlon title, and then she won the long jump, leaping 7.36m three days later.
Greatest World Championships moments – 30 to 21 https://worldathletics.org/news/series/greatest-world-championships-moments-30-to-21 Jackie Joyner-Kersee arrived at the second World Championships in Rome as world record-holder in the heptathlon having totalled 7161 points the year before in Houston. She departed with the first of what would be four global titles at this most exacting and exhausting of disciplines.
Remembering the Goodwill Games, 20 years on - World Athletics https://worldathletics.org/news/feature/remembering-goodwill-games Moscow 1986. Two athletics superstars, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Sergey Bubka, provided the brightest highlights. Sergey Bubka (© Allsport / Getty Images) Joyner-Kersee took the first of her four Goodwill heptathlon gold medals with a world record 7148 points.
Greatest World Championships moments - women's long list https://worldathletics.org/news/news/greatest-world-championships-moments-womens-long-list Jackie Joyner-Kersee dominated the heptathlon, leading from start to finish, to win with a championship record of 7128. Three days later, she added another gold medal to her tally, this time in the long jump, which she won with 7.36m, another championship record.
Evolution of Olympic Women's Athletics, 1928 to the present day https://worldathletics.org/news/news/evolution-of-olympic-womens-athletics-1928-to Four years later in Seoul, sisters-in-law Florence Griffith Joyner and Jackie Joyner-Kersee accounted for five victories. Flo Jo, who was to die at just 38, smiled her way to an incredible sprint double in 10.54w and World record 21.34 as well as contributing a 48.08 leg for silver in the 4x400m relay, while JJK set a still ...
World Athletics Championships records | NEWS | World Athletics https://worldathletics.org/news/news/world-athletics-championships-records Long jump ― Jackie Joyner-Kersee, United States, 7.36m, 1987. Joyner-Kersee won the first of her two World Athletics Championships in this event by breaking the previous record by 9 centimeters. She repeated at Tokyo four years later with a leap of 7.32m and remains the only woman to go over 24 feet at the World Athletics ...
Ghada Shouaa: The only Olympic gold medallist for Syria https://worldathletics.org/news/feature/ghada-shouaa-olympic-gold-syria-comic-feature The host nation’s Jackie Joyner-Kersee, the defending champion and world record-holder who had dominated the heptathlon for a decade, was bidding for a third consecutive Olympic title, but she withdrew after the 100m hurdles, the first of the seven contested events.
Anna Hall’s star power continues to grow with bronze medal in ... https://worldathletics.org/news/report/anna-halls-star-power-continues-to-grow-with... Putting together heptathlon success on the international stage has been difficult for the United States since the retirement of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, easily the greatest heptathlete ever. Hall’s bronze medal was the first medal won by the United States in the heptathlon at a World Athletics Championships since Sheila Burrell won the bronze ...