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Born in East St. Louis, Illinois, Joyner-Kersee played a number of sports in high school and earned a basketball scholarship to UCLA, where she met her coach and future husband, Bob Kersee. She won the silver medal in the heptathlon at the Olympic Games Los Angeles 1984, and became the first woman to score over 7,000 points in the heptathlon ...
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. Entered only in the long jump, she was in seventh place after five rounds.
28. März 2024 · Jackie Joyner-Kersee receives the bronze medal in the long jump at her last Olympic Games in 1996. (Photo by Stu Forster / Getty Images) Twelve years earlier, she faced a similar fate. Entering her first Olympic Games in 1984 battling injury, she recalls experiencing self-doubt and feeling like she would be unable to perform to the best of her ...
Joyner-Kersee married her coach, Bob Kersee. Her brother, Al Joyner , won the 1984 Olympic triple jump gold medal, and her sister-in-law was the great sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner. Since her retirement from competition, JJK has devoted herself to charitable works through both the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation and Athletes for Hope.
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. 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.
11. Apr. 2024 · Jackie Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962, East St. Louis, Illinois, U.S.) is an American athlete who was considered by many to be the greatest female athlete ever. She 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 ...
20. März 2024 · The Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation. Established in 1988, the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation seeks to instill in youth in and around the surrounding area of East St. Louis, Illinois, with the ...
