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3 days ago · Jackie Joyner-Kersee is a retired American track and field athlete, who won six Olympic medals in long jump and heptathlon. She is married to Bob Kersee, a former coach and athletic director at UCLA.
5 days ago · Joyner began training for the heptathlon in 1981 under the tutelage of assistant track coach Bob Kersee, whom she married in 1986. At the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, she overcame a pulled hamstring to win the silver medal in the heptathlon, narrowly missing the gold by five points.
4 days ago · Jackie Joyner-Kersee has changed the lives of more people than she could ever know – through scholarships, the foundation that bears her name and the nationally recognized “Winning in Life”...
3 days ago · In 1984, the Women's Sports Foundation selected Rudolph as one of the five greatest women athletes in the United States. In 1996, the foundation presented its first Wilma Rudolph Courage Award to Jackie Joyner-Kersee. [12] [52]
3 days ago · Her husband and coach, Bob Kersee, was always close by with an inhaler at the ready, always yelling at her to do better at the same time. She finally retired from competition, after an illustrious career.
3 days ago · Babe Didrikson Zaharias - Wikipedia. Mildred Ella " Babe " Didrikson Zaharias (/ zəˈhɑːriəs /; née Didrikson; June 26, 1911 – September 27, 1956) was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball, and track and field.
3 days ago · Jay joins an elite group of honorees in the Hall of Fame, alongside legends like Albert Pujols, Arthur Ashe, Bob Costas, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. His induction in early September at The Missouri Athletic Club is not just a celebration of his past successes but also a bright beacon for the future of Principia basketball.
