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Joyner-Kersee Wins Heptathlon.
With her knee throbbing once again, Joyner-Kersee taped up for the javelin throw. Her toss of 45.35 m (149 ft 9.5 in) was about 3 m (10 ft) short of her personalaverage, dropping her another 86 points off of the record pace. “It was disgusting,” she told Sports Illustrated. ”The knee was sore. I wasn't using the legs. I was just arming it.” One event remained: the 800 meters, the most demanding of the heptathlon's seven tests. It was also the event that had cost Joyner-Kersee the gold meda...
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee Jackie Joyner-Kersee, born in 1962, American track-and-field athlete, who won the heptathlon event (an all-around event) at the Olympic Games in 1988 and 1992.
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
- Joyner-Kersee, Jackie - sport.
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Sport.
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1996 Summer Olympics.
jump, the first African woman ever to win an Olympic field event. In the first Olympic women's soccer competition, the United States returned to world prominence with a 2-1 gold medal victory over China before more than 76,000spectators—believed to be the largest crowd in history for a women's sporting event. The U.S. team won the first women's World Cup in 1991, defeating Norway inthe final match, but had failed to defend the title in 1995 when they lost to the Norwegians in the semifinals...