Florence Griffith Joyner Track and Field Star Book Review
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| Total name | Alfrederick A. Joyner | |||||||||||||
| Born | Jan 19, 1960 (1960-01-19) (age62) Eastward St. Louis, Illinois, U.Southward. | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Arkansas Land University | |||||||||||||
| Spouse(southward) | Florence Griffith Joyner | |||||||||||||
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Alfrederick "Al" Joyner (born January nineteen, 1960)[1] is an American track and field omnibus and former athlete. He was born in E St. Louis, Illinois. He is the 1984 Olympic golden medalist in the triple spring. He was also the jitney and husband of the belatedly four-time Olympic medalist Florence Griffith Joyner and is the brother of six-time Olympic medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
Career [edit]
A star athlete at Lincoln High Schoolhouse in E St. Louis, Illinois, Joyner went on to attend Arkansas State University. He competed with their track and field squad throughout his college career and, by the time he graduated, Joyner was a three-time NCAA All-American indoor champion, a 3-time NCAA All-American and outdoor champion, a four-fourth dimension Southland Conference champ and had placed 8th in the triple jump at the World Championships in Helsinki, Finland.
In 1984 Joyner traveled to Los Angeles for the Summer Games to compete with the U.S. Olympic track and field team. With a leap of 56 anxiety 7.five inches, he became the kickoff African American in 80 years to win a gold medal in the triple leap. He was honored with the Jim Thorpe Honor, which is given every iv years to the best American competitor in an Olympic Field Event. That same year, he cheered his sister Jackie Joyner Kersee every bit she competed in the heptathlon. When she captured a silver in the event, they became the offset sibling teammates in U.S. history to win medals during the same Olympics.
On October x, 1987, Joyner married track athlete Florence Griffith, later known as Flo–Jo. The two met in 1980 at the Olympic trials registration. He later became his wife's charabanc. Griffith Joyner won 3 gold medals at the 1988 Olympic Games. Their daughter, Mary Ruth, was born in 1990. Griffith-Joyner died from an epileptic seizure at the age of 38 in 1998. After his wife'southward decease, Joyner began traveling to promote her newly published volume, Running for Dummies, and jump-showtime the Florence Griffith Joyner charity/scholarship fund. He also began directing the Flo Jo Community Empowerment Foundation, an system dedicated to making dreams come true for the youth effectually the globe. One dollar from every auction of Running for Dummies is donated to this foundation.
Joyner has been inducted into the Arkansas State Academy Track and Field Hall of Fame (1993), the Arkansas Rail and Field Hall of Fame (1997) and the Illinois Track and Field Hall of Fame (1999). He was hired by SportsToday.com to write columns on track and field for the 2000 Olympic games in Sydney, Commonwealth of australia. During this time, he also coached two athletes with their sights on the 2000 U.S. Olympic Track and Field squad, and was himself training to compete in the men's triple spring trials. A knee injury prevented him from participating.
Joyner was on the Academy of California UCLA in Los Angeles' runway and field staff as an assistant bus/women's jumps coach from 1999 to 2003. He was the dart & jump coach for the 2005 USOC Paralympics team in Helsinki, which won sixteen out of the xxx medals the USA team won. In 2005, he joined the USATF/ USOC coaching staff and became the full-fourth dimension USOC high functioning jump coach in 2007.
Achievements [edit]
| Twelvemonth | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes | |
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Representing  United States | |||||
| 1983 | World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 8th | xvi.76 chiliad | |
| 1984 | Olympic Games | Los Angeles, United states | 1st | 17.26 grand | |
| 1987 | Earth Indoor Championships | Indianapolis, The states | 5th | xvi.92 chiliad | |
References [edit]
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Al Joyner". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
External links [edit]
- dataOlympics profile
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Joyner
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