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Jacqueline Joyner, coniugata Kersee, detta Jackie (East St. Louis, 3 marzo 1962), è un'ex multiplista, lunghista e cestista statunitense, campionessa olimpica e mondiale del salto in lungo e dell' eptathlon.
Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962) is a retired American track and field athlete who competed in both the heptathlon and long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals at four different Olympic Games.
8 feb 2024 · American track and field great Jackie Joyner-Kersee won three Olympic gold medals and numerous national titles during her record-setting career.
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22 lug 2024 · Jackie Joyner-Kersee is a former athlete from the United States who, at the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow, became the first person to score more than 7,000 points in the heptathlon.
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28 feb 2024 · 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 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.
18 lug 2024 · For most of the 1980s and ’90s, few female athletes in the United States were as famous as Jackie Joyner-Kersee. The stylish, personable star of USA Track & Field set numerous world records...
