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Now known as Jackie Joyner-Kersee after marrying her coach Bob Kersee, she entered the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea and earned gold medals in both the heptathlon and the long jump. At the Games, she set the still-standing heptathlon world record of 7,291 points.
6 days ago · Jackie Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962, East St. Louis, Illinois, U.S.) is a former athlete from the United States who was the first participant to score more than 7,000 points in the heptathlon. Joyner showed great enthusiasm for athletics early on, and, as a teenager, she won the first of four consecutive National Junior Pentathlon ...
By the time of the 1988 Olympic Games, Joyner-Kersee (she had married her coach, Bob Kersee) was so much better at the heptathlon than everyone else that her husband had to invent a fantasy opponent: Wilhelmina World Record. At the Olympic Games in Seoul, Joyner-Kersee won the gold by beating Wilhelmina by 76 points.
Mar 20, 2024 · Team USA’s former titan of the track now uses her dauntless energy and legendary status to uplift the underprivileged youth in her hometown of East St. Louis, Illinois. By Andrew Woodin Mar 20 ...
Joyner-Kersee won gold medals in the heptathlon and the long jump in her second Games, and earned a total of six medals throughout her Olympic career. She retired after the Atlanta 1996 Games and briefly played professional women’s Basketball in the American Basketball League.
Mar 8, 2012 · Joyner-Kersee won the long jump and heptathlon by huge margins at the 1987 IAAF World Championships and repeated the same double 12 months later at the 1988 Olympic Games. She added a second heptathlon title at the 1992 Olympics, where she also won a long jump silver medal, and between 1985 and 1991 she won 12 consecutive heptathlon contests.
Considered by many to be the greatest female all-around athlete in history, Jackie Joyner-Kersee's achievements include three Olympic gold medals, four World Outdoor Championships gold medals, and the still-standing world record of 7,291 points in the women's heptathlon.
Considered to be the world's greatest female athlete, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, retired from heptathlon competition in 1998, winning the event at the Goodwill Games. She did return to long jump competition at the 2000 U.S. Trials in an effort to make her fifth consecutive U.S. women's Olympic team, but placed sixth (21-10) in the final.
Biography. In any discussion of the greatest ever female athletes, Jackie Joyner-Kersee is on the list. In fact, Sports Illustrated voted her the greatest female athlete of the 20th century, just ahead of Babe Didrikson. JJK attended UCLA where she played basketball and competed in track & field.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee Dominates Women's Heptathlon For Gold - Seoul 1988 Olympics. 📲 Subscribe to @olympics: http://oly.ch/Subscribe Welcome to the Olympics YouTube channel, where the Games...
