Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Jacqueline (Jackie) Joyner-Kersee ( East St. Louis , March 3, 1962 ) is a former American athlete , who specialized in the heptathlon , the hurdles and the long jump .She belongs to the best samples ever heptathlon. She participated in four Olympic Games and won a total of three gold, once silver and two bronze medals. They also won two world titles in the long jump, as well as the heptathlon.



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*1 Biography  ==[Biography  edit ] == ===[Youth  edit ] === Jacqueline Joyner was born in a poor neighborhood in East St. Louis and named for Jacqueline Kennedy . When as a child one day with her ​​brother Al in the back room of their house, which was built of planks and paper, was crying, she talked with him that she would try to be the best in the world. [1] That Jeane Dixon had her grandmother on the day that Jackie was born, by the way predicted: ever she would be the first lady. That prediction came true. Thanks to the sport overcame Jackie Joyner poverty and tragedy, discrimination and disease and became one of the greatest athletes in history. [1]
 * 1.1 Youth
 * 1.2 Place enforced
 * 1.3 Breakthrough
 * 1.4 Marriage
 * Highlight 1.5
 * 1.6 of favorites
 * 1.7 Last medal
 * 1.8 Doping
 * 1.9 Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation
 * 2 Titles
 * 3 Statistics
 * 3.1 Personal bests
 * 3.2 Structure PR-around and potentially record based on PRs
 * 4 Awards

Incidentally, Joyner became inspired to take up athletics by doing a TV -movie which she saw in 1975 about Babe Zaharias, once voted 'Greatest athlete of the first half of the twentieth century. " Fifty years later, Sports Illustrated for Women Joyner-Kersee proclaim greatest athlete of all time. ===Enforced place [  edit ] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Jackie Joyner already loved as a child of challenges. In her youth she had no control of discrimination, but because they loved the sport she was distracted by the problems caused in her district by alcohol and drugs. When she was in her ninth not good enough found to be part of the relay team of her school, she felt that this was a huge disappointment. "I'm going to train hard and have enforced so my place. When I was twelve, I looked already like a cheerleader . My mother forbade me to go out. That was allowed only when I was eighteen. In high school I was good at volleyball , basketball and athletics. I was also good to learn and went to UCLA to study history. "<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Voorop_1-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1] ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Breakthrough  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">At UCLA Jackie Joyner took part in both athletics and basketball tournaments. In the period from 1980 to 1985, it developed into a top player in basketball field. Later, in 1998, she would be named one of the fifteen best basketball players ever from UCLA. But in athletics area they dropped along. They met in Los Angeles Bob Kersee, the husband of her life. Kersee, a former Marine sergeant, was a controversial coach who was extremely hard for the super talent from East St. Louis. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Voorop_1-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  It led in any case that Joyner at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles international breakthrough with a silver medal the heptathlon. It was the breakthrough which it had already dreamed as a teenager. "I was fourteen when I first saw the Olympics on TV. That's where I wanted to go. From that moment my life was every day dominated by half a second quicker or a centimeter further." <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Voorop_1-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1] ===Marriage <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Outside the stadium was Bob Kersee sensitive and he also was interested in the personal side of Jackie Joyner. She discovered this when her mother was deceased. "I was a freshman when she suddenly fell ill. My mother was already in a coma and was brain dead when we arrived at the hospital. She was only 37 when she died. I was 18." Mary Joyner suffered from the syndrome, Waterhouse-Friderichsen, an adrenal disorder that is caused by a massive infection with meningococcal . "Back at UCLA told Bob that his mother had died young. If I needed him, I could always come to him. Bob gave to me as an athlete but also as a woman." <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Voorop_1-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">On January 11, 1986 her coach was her husband, after her during a baseball game had asked to marry him. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Voorop_1-6" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1] ===Highlight <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Remarkably Joyner-Kersee sees her world record of 7148 points at the Goodwill Games in 1986 in Moscow as the absolute highlight in her career. "I knew that I was very talented, but also that I had to work very hard and never to be satisfied. To get over the barrier of 7,000 points, I really worked very hard. Indeed, when I was quite satisfied. For equally. " <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Voorop_1-7" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Before engaging in Seoul reported for the 1988 Olympics, Jackie Joyner had won nine consecutive seven camps, including those at the world championships in 1987 inRome with a total of 7128 points, where they passing with a jump of 7.36 m also the world title in the long jump was added. "I was already married when Bob and wanted to take his last name. He held back. First I had to put down a world before I could call me Jackie Joyner Kersee." <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Voorop_1-8" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In Seoul, she made her status towering favorite quite true. She was Olympic champion in the heptathlon, with a new record of 7291 points. And just like a year ago in Rome five days later she won her second gold medal in the long jump with a leap of 7.40, a new Olympic record . ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Favorit  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In the years that followed was Joyner-Kersee the benchmark for any self seriously taking all-around star in the world. She herself was always the big favorite for the victory in every tournament of any importance.This is not to say that it could never ever go wrong with her. At the World Championships 1991 in Tokyo, she had jumped the winning distance of 7.32 already delivered, then they slipped away during a subsequent attempt at the start bar and landed unhappy. It earned her an ankle injury. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2] When she was a day later on the first day of the heptathlon in addition a hamstring strained, she had her efforts to extend this section to extend its title, give up. A year later she won at the Olympics in Barcelona, however, her second gold medal in the heptathlon. With 7044 points, it was for the competition two buddies, i.e. 200 points, too large. A replay of Seoul, however, it was not. In the long jump put the German Heike Drechsler her with 7.14 foot cross and conquered the US with 7.07 "only" bronze.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">After 1992, the performance of Jackie Joyner-Kersee were slowly but surely less. Given the almost unassailable level they had ever reached, she was still far from the beating athlete and thus on the 1993 World Championships for everyone too strong. But Sabine Braun came in the heptathlon with its 6797 points so close to the US, who showed her total of 6837 points, the German heptathlon star the title two years earlier had only been able to conquer because of the premature failure of Joyner -Kersee. ===Last medal <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In 1995, she was at the world championships in Gothenburg with 6.74 only sixth in the long jump and then a year later they wanted to qualify for the US Olympic trials for her fourth Olympics, she got injured her right hamstring. Not fully recovered, she tried it in Atlanta still, but after the first issue of the heptathlon, the 100m hurdles, she had to give up moaning in pain. Miraculously, a few days later they nevertheless succeeded again in order to qualify for the long jump for the final, where she came to 7.00 in her final attempt. This bronze she won her last Olympic medal.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In the same year began Joyner-Kersee a professional career as a basketball star at the Richmond Rage, which played in the American Basketball League for women. Although she was very popular with the fans, they never scored more than four points in one game. She played along in total seventeen matches. In 1998 she did even once again participate in a heptathlon during the Goodwill Games and this came to 6502 points. In 2000, a definitive end to her career, when she arrived at the Olympic trials in the long jump came no further than sixth.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Joyner-Kersee was elected in 1994 to IAAF athlete of the year . ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Doping  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Throughout her career, Jackie Joyner-Kersee has regularly had stories about doping . Although she never tested positive, she sighs as this loaded subject comes up. "Of course at that time the climate good when you talk about doping. I also saw athletes who suddenly came to a very high peak and then ended up in a deep valley. Or a very short career experienced. The rumors were unfounded and based on jealousy . I have my qualified four times for the Olympics, was in the US always in the top three and I only stopped at my 38th. Move on. " <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Voorop_1-9" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Her sister, Florence Griffith Joyner, incidentally, was the same age when she died in her bedroom on September 21, 1998. "Flo Jo" was married to Jackie's brother Al, who in 1984 Olympic champion triple jump had become. The sprinter, world record holder in the 100 and 200 meters , was with her ​​long fingernails and flashy outfit a remarkable appearance. After it became clear that a section epileptic attack had become her fatal, many rumors about doping notwithstanding. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Voorop_1-10" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1] ===Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In 1988, Joyner-Kersee established the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation, which aims to provide underprivileged youth, adults and their families from East St. Louis to give resources to improve their quality of life.Since 2000 there have been collected thousands of families and children in her center. "We give people education and we provide recreation. The center is in fact a safe haven for people who have no goal or view more in their lives. Thanks to my sponsors, I have since 2000 more than $ 12 million given to my heart. I do like very much. I give with my heart. I learned at a young age. " <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Voorop_1-11" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Self Jackie Joyner-Kersee has no children. Marrying Bob Kersee remained childless. ==Titles <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Statistics <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Personal records <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Structure PR-around and potentially record-based PR programs <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The table shows the breakdown of the personal record in the heptathlon. In the columns next to it also the potential record, with all the personal records on the individual components and the associated points.Jackie had a fairly large difference between her personal records and what she achieved in her heptathlon record. Meanwhile, the number of points of its record exceeds the total number of points that any other heptathlon star also scored from personal records. ==Awards <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Olympic heptathlon champion - 1988, 1992
 * Olympic long jump champion - 1988
 * World Champion jump - 1987, 1991
 * World champion heptathlon - 1987, 1993
 * American indoor 60m hurdles champion - 1992
 * American champion 100m hurdles - 1994
 * American indoor long jump champion - in 1992, 1994, 1995
 * American long jump champion - 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
 * American champion heptathlon - 1982, 1987, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995
 * NCAA -kampioene heptathlon - 1982, 1983, 2004, 2006
 * Pan American junior champion jump - 1980
 * Outdoor
 * Indoor
 * IAAF athlete of the year - 1994
 * James E. Sullivan Award - 1986