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Mar 20, 2024 · 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.
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.
Feb 21, 2020 · Joyner-Kersee won six Olympic medals, including three golds in the heptathlon and long jump. She amassed four gold medals at the World Championships as well, an event that propelled her to ...
At the Olympic Games in Seoul, Joyner-Kersee won the gold by beating Wilhelmina by 76 points. Five days later, she earned a second gold medal in the long jump with a fifth-round leap of 7.40m.
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 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.
JOYNER-KERSEE, Jacqueline ("Jackie") ( b. 3 March 1962 in East St. Louis, Illinois), track and basketball star who is known as America's best all-around female athlete and the greatest ever heptathlete.
