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Jacqueline "Jackie" Joyner-Kersee (East St. Louis, 3 de março de 1962) é uma antiga atleta americana. Jackie é considerada uma das melhores atletas de todos os tempos no heptatlo e no salto em distância. Ela ganhou três medalhas de ouro, uma prata e duas de bronze nos Jogos Olímpicos: Los Angeles 1984, Seul 1988, Barcelona 1992 ...
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.
8 de fev. de 2024 · American track and field great Jackie Joyner-Kersee won three Olympic gold medals and numerous national titles during her record-setting career.
21 de mai. de 2024 · Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American athlete who was considered by many to be the greatest female athlete ever. At the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow, she became the first person to score more than 7,000 points in the heptathlon. Learn more about Joyner-Kersee’s life and career.
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.
A jump right to the podium. Joyner-Kersee easily won the heptathlon again at the 1992 Games in Barcelona. In the long jump, she gained a bronze medal. At the age of 34, Joyner-Kersee competed in the Olympic Games one last time, at the 1996 Olympic Games.
8 de mar. de 2012 · 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 ...
