Jackie Joyner-Kersee

CTL-E-6712 · Person · other · contemporary

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee is regarded as the greatest female multi-event athlete in history: she won the Olympic heptathlon in 1988 and 1992 and still holds the heptathlon world record of 7,291 points, set at the 1988 Seoul Games. She also won Olympic gold in the long jump in 1988 and collected six Olympic medals in all. Sports Illustrated for Women named her the greatest female athlete of the 20th century.

Notes

Merged 2026-11-02 from the staged athletes packet (website/.build-work/scratch-v114/athletes/) under the GOV-006 founder gate opened 2026-11-02; the staged record is carried verbatim — no claim upgraded in transit (GOV-004). · Roles as staged: Track & field — heptathlon, long jump (United States) · Photo: Photo: Steve Dykes, Los Angeles Times · CC BY 4.0 · Source: Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jackie_Joyner_Kersee_mid_long_jump,_1987.jpg) · staged for CultureTechLens Full per-asset record in this package's photo-records.json, keyed to CTL-E-6712.

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Jackie Joyner-Kersee' — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Joyner-Kersee
• britannica.com — https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jackie-Joyner-Kersee

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