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American retired track and field athlete

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Joyner-Kersee in 2014
Personal information
Nationality	American
Born	Jacqueline Joyner (1962-03-03) March 3, 1962 (historic period 60) [1] E St. Louis, Illinois, U.S.[1]
Height	five ft 10 in (178 cm)[1]
Weight	154 lb (70 kg)[1]
Sport
State	United states
Sport	Athletics
Upshot(s)	Long spring, heptathlon
College team	UCLA (1980–1985)
Guild	Tiger World Class Able-bodied Club West Coast Athletic Club McDonald's Track Club
Medal record Representing the United states Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Heptathlon 1988 Seoul Long jump 1992 Barcelona Heptathlon 1984 Los Angeles Heptathlon 1992 Barcelona Long spring 1996 Atlanta Long bound Earth Championships 1987 Rome Long jump 1987 Rome Heptathlon 1991 Tokyo Long jump 1993 Stuttgart Heptathlon Goodwill Games 1986 Moscow Heptathlon  1990 Seattle Heptathlon 1994 Saint Petersburg Heptathlon 1998 New York Heptathlon Pan American Games 1987 Indianapolis Long spring

Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962) is a retired American track and field athlete, ranked amidst the all-fourth dimension greatest athletes in the heptathlon too as long bound. She won three gold, i silver, and ii statuary Olympic medals in those two events at four different Olympic Games. Sports Illustrated for Women magazine voted Joyner-Kersee the Greatest Female Athlete of All-Time. She is on the board of directors for USA Track & Field (UsaA.T.F.), the national governing body of the sport.^[2]

Joyner-Kersee is an active philanthropist in children's education, racial equality and women's rights.^[3] She is a founder of the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation, which encourages young people in Eastward St. Louis to pursue athletics and academics.^[iii] She collaborated with Comcast to create the Internet Essentials plan in 2011, which costs $9.95/month for depression-income Americans and offers depression-cost laptops and 40 hours/month of high-speed internet service. Since its inception, it has provided internet access to 4 million Americans.^{[3] [four] [five]}

Joyner-Kersee is one of the about famous athletes to take overcome severe asthma.^[6]

Early life [edit]

Jacqueline Joyner was built-in March 3, 1962, in Due east St. Louis, Illinois, and was named after Jacqueline Kennedy, the First Lady of the The states.^[7] As a high school athlete at East St. Louis Lincoln Senior High School, she qualified for the finals in the long jump at the 1980 Olympic Trials, finishing 8th behind another high schooler, Carol Lewis.^[8] She was inspired to compete in multi-disciplinary rails & field events subsequently seeing a 1975 fabricated-for-Idiot box movie about Babe Didrikson Zaharias.^{[ commendation needed ]} Didrikson, the track star, basketball player, and pro golfer, was called the "Greatest Female Athlete of the First Half of the 20th Century. Fifteen years later, Sports Illustrated for Women magazine voted Joyner-Kersee the greatest female athlete of all time, simply ahead of Zaharias.

UCLA [edit]

Jackie Joyner attended college at the Academy of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she starred in both track & field and in women'southward basketball from 1980–1985. She was a starter in her forrard position for each of her first three seasons (1980–81, 81–82, and 82–83) also as in her senior (fifth) year, 1984–1985. She had red-shirted during the 1983–1984 bookish year to concentrate on the heptathlon for the 1984 Summertime Olympics.

She won the Broderick Laurels, (now the Honda Sports Accolade) equally the nation'south all-time female collegiate track and field competitor in 1983 and in 1985, and was awarded the Honda-Broderick Cup, given to the nation'southward best female collegiate athlete in 1985.^{[9] [10] [11]}

She scored 1,167 points during her collegiate career, which places her 19th all time for the Bruins games.^[12] The Bruins advanced to the West Regional semi-finals of the 1985 NCAA Women'southward Partition I Basketball Tournament before losing to eventual runner-up Georgia.^[12]

She was honored on Feb 21, 1998 as one of the 15 greatest players in UCLA women'south basketball game.^[thirteen] In April 2001, Joyner-Kersee was voted the "Top Adult female Collegiate Athlete of the Past 25 Years." The vote was conducted amid the 976 NCAA fellow member schools.^[xiv]

UCLA statistics [edit]

Source^[fifteen]

Legend

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field goal percentage	3P%	3-point field goal percent	FT%	Free throw per centum
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	Bold	Career high

Yr	Team	GP	Points	FG%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1984–85	UCLA	29	368	46.5%	45.9%	9.1	1.4	2.i	0.one	12.7
1982–83	UCLA	28	246	41.4%	65.7%	5.vi	1.viii	ane.0	0.ii	viii.8
1981–82	UCLA	xxx	239	38.1%	67.vii%	5.viii	2.iii	1.three	0.1	8.0
1980–81	UCLA	34	314	fifty.6%	63.3%	4.6	two.three	1.2	0.0	ix.2
Career Basketball	UCLA	121	1167	44.iv%	58.five%	6.2	ii.0	1.4	0.1	9.6

Competition [edit]

Joyner-Kersee at the 1988 Olympic Trials

1984 Summertime Olympics [edit]

Joyner competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and won the silver medal in the heptathlon. She was the favorite heading into the consequence, merely finished v points behind Australian Glynis Nunn.^[16] She as well placed fifth in the long spring.^[17]

1986 Goodwill Games [edit]

Joyner was the commencement woman to score over 7,000 points in a heptathlon upshot (during the 1986 Goodwill Games). In 1986, she received the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United states.

1988 Summer Olympics [edit]

Now known every bit Jackie Joyner-Kersee after marrying her autobus Bob Kersee,^[18] she entered the 1988 Summertime Olympics in Seoul, Korea and earned gold medals in both the heptathlon and the long spring. At the Games, she fix the notwithstanding-standing heptathlon earth tape of seven,291 points. The silver and bronze medalists were Sabine John and Anke Vater-Behmer, both of whom were representing Eastward Germany. Five days later, Joyner-Kersee won her second gold medal, leaping to an Olympic record of seven.40 g (24 ft 3+ 1⁄iv  in) in the long jump.^[17] She was the showtime American woman to earn a gold medal in long bound equally well every bit the outset American adult female to earn a gold medal in heptathlon.

1991 World Championships [edit]

Joyner-Kersee was everyone'southward favorite to retain both her World titles earned four years before in Rome. However, her challenge was dramatically halted when, having won the long jump hands with a 7.32 one thousand (24 ft 1⁄iv  in) jump no one would beat, she slipped on the take-off lath and careened headfirst into the pit, avoiding serious injury. She did, however, strain a hamstring, which led to her having to pull out of the heptathlon during the 200 m at the stop of the first day.

1992 Summer Olympics [edit]

In the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, Joyner-Kersee earned her second Olympic gold medal in the heptathlon. She also won the bronze medal in the long jump which was won by her friend Heike Drechsler of Germany.^[17]

1996 Summer Olympics [edit]

At the Olympic Trials, Joyner-Kersee sustained an injury to her correct hamstring. When the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia began, Joyner-Kersee was not fully recovered past the time the heptathlon started. After running the first event, the 100 m hurdles, the pain was unbearable and she withdrew.^{[7] [19]} She was able to recover well plenty to compete in the long jump and qualify for the final, but was in 6th place in the last with one jump remaining. Her final jump of seven.00 one thousand (22 ft eleven+ 1⁄2  in) was long enough for her to win the bronze medal.^[17] The Atlanta Olympics would exist the last Olympics of Joyner-Kersee'due south long competitive career.

Professional basketball game career [edit]

In 1996 Joyner-Kersee signed on to play pro basketball for the Richmond Rage of the fledgling American Basketball game League. Although she was very pop with the fans, she was less successful on the court. She appeared in only 17 games, and scored no more than xv points in whatever game.^[7]

1998 Goodwill Games [edit]

Returning to rail, Joyner-Kersee won the heptathlon at the 1998 Goodwill Games, scoring 6,502 points.^[7]

2000 Olympic trials [edit]

Two years after retiring, Joyner-Kersee tried to qualify for the long leap event at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She placed sixth at 21–10 ¾.^{[seven] [20]}

Awards and honors [edit]

Jackie Joyner-Kersee in 1996 book signing

• 1983 Broderick Award (at present Honda Sports Award)^{[21] [11]}
• 1985 Broderick Laurels (now Honda Sports Award)^{[21] [11]}
• 1986 James Eastward. Sullivan Laurels
• 1986 Jesse Owens Award^[22]
• 1987 Jesse Owens Award^[22]
• 1997 Jack Kelly Fair Play Honour^[23]
• 2000 St. Louis Walk of Fame inductee^[24]
• 2005 was inducted every bit a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Club of Lincoln (the Country's highest honour) by the Governor of Illinois in the surface area of Sports^[25]
• 2010 NCAA Silver Anniversary Awards honoree
• 2011 Dick Enberg Award, Higher Sports Information Director of America (CoSIDA)

Since 1981, the Jesse Owens Award is given by USATF (and before its renaming, TAC) the Usa' track and field "athlete of the year." In 1996, the award was split to exist given to the top athlete of each gender. In 2013, the Female honor was renamed the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Award.

Electric current world records [edit]

Every bit of October 2019^[update], Joyner-Kersee holds the world record in heptathlon forth with the top half dozen all-fourth dimension best results whilst her long jump record of 7.49 m is second on the long jump all-time list. In addition to heptathlon and long jump, she was a globe class athlete in 100 thousand hurdles and 200 meters existence as of June 2006^[update] in top 60 all time in those events.

Sports Illustrated voted her the greatest female athlete of the 20th century.

Joyner-Kersee has consistently maintained that she has competed throughout her career without performance-enhancing drugs.^{[26] [27]}

Personal bests [edit]

Performances table during the world tape in 1988

Issue	Operation	Wind	Points	Notes
100 metres hurdles	12.69 s	+0.5 one thousand/s	1172
Long leap	7.27 grand	+0.vii m/due south	1264	Heptathlon Best; highest score for a single consequence
High bound	ane.86 m		1054
200 m	22.56 southward	+one.half dozen k/s	1123
Shot put	15.eighty thou		915
Javelin throw	45.66 m		776
800 one thousand	ii min eight.51 s		987	PB
Total			7291	WR

Personal bests

• 100 metres hurdles : 12.61 s
• Long jump : vii.49 m (nevertheless currently #2 all time, 3 cm backside the world record and she did it twice)
• High spring : 1.93 m
• 200 m : 22.xxx s
• Shot put : 16.84 m
• Javelin throw : 50.12 m
• 800 thousand : 2 min 8.51 south

Acting [edit]

In 2000, Kersee played herself in an episode of The Jersey called "Legacy"^[28] where Nick Lighter (played by Michael Galeota) uses a magical jersey by jumping into her body as he is coached by her husband (played by Bob Kersee) on how to put the shot for a track and field competition.

Personal life [edit]

Jackie's brother is the Olympic champion triple jumper Al Joyner, who was married to Olympic track champion Florence Griffith Joyner. Jackie married her track jitney, Bob Kersee, in 1986.^{[7] [17]}

In 1988, Joyner-Kersee established the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation, which provides youth, adults, and families with able-bodied, academic lessons and the resources to ameliorate their quality of life with special attention directed to East St. Louis, Illinois. In 2007, Jackie Joyner-Kersee along with Andre Agassi, Muhammad Ali, Lance Armstrong, Warrick Dunn, Mia Hamm, Jeff Gordon, Tony Militarist, Andrea Jaeger, Mario Lemieux, Alonzo Mourning, and Cal Ripken, Jr. founded Athletes for Promise, a charitable organization that helps professional person athletes get involved in charitable causes and inspires millions of non-athletes to volunteer and support the community.^[29]

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jackie Joyner-Kersee". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
2. ^ "United states of america Track & Field – USATF Board welcomes three new members". Usatf.org. January 23, 2012. Archived from the original on April 24, 2012. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Brunner, Jeryl. "Legendary Track and Field Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee Shares The Best Advice She's Always Gotten". Forbes . Retrieved February 18, 2018.
4. ^ "Four million low-income Americans have crossed the digital divide through Comcast'south Net Essentials plan". www.insightnews.com. Archived from the original on February 18, 2018. Retrieved Feb eighteen, 2018.
5. ^ Dahlberg, Nancy (Baronial 15, 2017). "Miami's depression-income seniors and youth to do good as Comcast expands Internet access". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on August 15, 2017. Retrieved February eighteen, 2018.
6. ^ "Jackie Joyner-Kersee: Living with Asthma". MedlinePlus. half-dozen (iii): 9. Fall 2011.
7. ^ ^{a b c d due east f} Jackie Joyner-Kersee. USA Rail and Field
8. ^ Hyman, Richard South. (2008) The History of the U.s.a. Olympic Trials Rail & Field. Usa Rails & Field
9. ^ ConferenceApr 25, Pac-12; 2001. "Jackie Joyner-Kersee Is Named The 'Top Woman Collegiate Athlete Of The Past 25 Years'". Pac-12 . Retrieved March 27, 2020. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
10. ^ "Past Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year Winners (Honda Cup)". CWSA . Retrieved March 27, 2020.
11. ^ ^{a b c} "Rail & Field". CWSA . Retrieved March 27, 2020.
12. ^ ^{a b} Usc Women's Basketballs all 2009–2010 Media guide – Re-create available at UCLABRUINS.COM
13. ^ UCLA Women's Basketball 2006–2007 Media guide – Re-create available at UCLABRUINS.COM
14. ^ Jackie Joyner-Kersee Is Named The 'Top Woman Collegiate Athlete Of The By 25 Years Archived November ii, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, April 25, 2001. UCLA Bruins official Athletic site
15. ^ "UCLA Media Guide" (PDF) . Retrieved September 5, 2017.
16. ^ Athletics at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games: Women's Heptathlon. sports-reference.com
17. ^ ^{a b c d e} Jackie Joyner-Kersee Archived September 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Sports Reference
18. ^ Ostler, Scott. (May 12, 1987) "Her Marriage Takes Piece of work, and It Works!". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
19. ^ Athletics at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Women's Heptathlon. sports-reference.com
20. ^ Longman, Jere (July 17, 2000). "After two fouls, it'south clear sailing for Jones". The New York Times.
21. ^ ^{a b} Harrington, Geri. (1995). Jackie Joyner-Kersee : champion athlete. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. p. 64. ISBN0-7910-2085-1. OCLC 31207061.
22. ^ ^{a b} Jesse Owens Award usatf.org
23. ^ "Jack Kelly Off-white Play Recipients". TeamUSA.org. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
24. ^ "St. Louis Walk of Fame Inductees". St. Louis Walk of Fame. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
25. ^ "Laureates past Twelvemonth – The Lincoln University of Illinois". The Lincoln Academy of Illinois . Retrieved March 7, 2016.
26. ^ Kersee, Jackie Joyner Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Motorcar Past LaTasha Chaffin Graduate Pupil, Grand Valley State Academy.
27. ^ Joyner-Kersee, Jackie, and Sonja Steptoe. A Kind of Grace . New York: Warner Brothers Books, 1997. ISBN 0-446-52248-one.
28. ^ "The Bailiwick of jersey Flavor 1 Legacy (via TV.Com)". Retrieved Baronial 21, 2018.
29. ^ "Athletes for Hope". Athletes for Hope. Retrieved Apr xi, 2012.

External links [edit]

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Joyner-Kersee

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