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INDIANAPOLIS
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee breaking her own women's heptathlon
world record at the 1988 Olympic Games was honored by USA
Track & Field as the ninth greatest moment in
U.S. track and field history in the last 25 years.
Joyner-Kersee
entered the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul looking to break her
own world heptathlon record of 7,215 points set earlier that
summer at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis.
JJK opened
with a blistering 100m hurdles, finishing the race in 12.69
seconds before clearing 1.86 meters/6 feet, 1.25 inches in
the high jump, throwing 15.80m/51-10 in the shot put and
running the 200 meters in 22.56 seconds. Her first day total
was 4,262 points, well below her 4,367 tally from her first
day of trials competition at Indy.
Day 2 began
brilliantly with JJK breaking the Olympic long jump record
with a leap of 7.27m/23-10.25. Following a javelin throw of
45.66m/149-10, Joyner-Kersee needed to run the 800m in
2:13.67 to break the record. After running the first lap in
close to 63 seconds, JJK finished the race in 2 minutes,
08.51 seconds for a new world record total of 7,291 points.
Her record still stands.
Joyner-Kersee,
who owns the top six heptathlon marks in the history of the
event, also won the gold medal in the women's long jump in
Seoul with her fifth-round Olympic record leap of
7.40m/24-3.50.
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