- Born
- Birth nameJacqueline Joyner
- Height1.78 m
- Jacqueline "Jackie" Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962) is an American retired track and field athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the women's heptathlon as well as in the women's long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals, in those two events at four different Olympic Games. Sports Illustrated for Women magazine voted Joyner-Kersee the Greatest Female Athlete of All-Time, just ahead of Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
After retiring as a competitive athlete, Joyner-Kersee has been involved with many philanthropic efforts and has joined the Board of Directors for USA Track & Field (USATF), the national governing body of the sport.- IMDb mini biography by: Dibyayan Chakravorty
- SpouseBob Kersee(January 11, 1986 - present)
- One of the world's greatest female athletes, the Olympic heptathlon champion packs a compact 147 lbs on her 5' 10" frame with a mere 6% body fat when she was in competitive form.
- Her husband, Bob Kersee, used to coach her sister-in-law, Florence Griffith Joyner.
- Attended UCLA
- On 2 August 1996 at the Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, she competed in the long-jump finals with an injured right leg and won a bronze medal. Her "One Last Jump" was ranked #19 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Most Awesome Sports Moments (of the last 15 years)". [17 July 2005 issue]
- She runs a charity foundation for children and seniors in St. Louis, Missouri.
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