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Florence Griffith Joyner. Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner[4] (born Florence Delorez Griffith; [2] December 21, 1959 – September 21, 1998), also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete and the fastest woman ever recorded. She set world records in 1988 for the 100 m and 200 m. During the late 1980s, she became a popular figure ...
Long jump. 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. Joyner-Kersee was also a four-time gold medalist (twice each in heptathlon and long jump) at the ...
Joyner-Kersee answered with a 7.16m to take over silver position and push Belevskaya out of the medals. Drechsler extended her lead to 7.22m in the fourth round. On advice from her coach and husband Bob Kersee , Joyner-Kersee moved her marks back and went for broke in the fifth round, the result was the 7.40 m ( 24 ft 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) winner and ...
60 m. Timothy Montgomery (born January 28, 1975) is an American former track sprinter who specialized in the 100-meter dash. In 2005, he was stripped of his records—including a now-void men's 100-meter world record of 9.78 seconds set in 2002—after being found guilty of using performance-enhancing drugs as a central figure in the BALCO scandal.
Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American sprinter who overcame childhood polio and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games. Rudolph competed in the 200-meter dash and won a bronze medal ...
An Alabama tennis coach for underprivileged children was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for taking a minor across state lines with the intent to engage in sexual activity. A federal judge ...
Meanwhile, in the heptathlon, Jackie Joyner-Kersee dominated the competition while setting a world record that has not been approached in the succeeding 30 years. Joyner-Kersee's long jump performance in the heptathlon was enough to set the Olympic record for the discipline, only for her to eclipse it in the final of the long jump event.
Joyner, who is from Columbus, Ga., and is now 51, previously operated a tennis association in Dale County, Ala., where he coached underprivileged children and teens, per prosecutors. Want to keep ...