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Jackie Joyner-Kersee

1962 - Today

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Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962) is a retired American track and field athlete who competed in both the heptathlon and long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals at four different Olympic Games. Joyner-Kersee was also a four-time gold medalist (twice each in heptathlon and long jump) at the world championships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jackie Joyner-Kersee has received more than 2,709,925 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Jackie Joyner-Kersee is the 298th most popular athlete (up from 444th in 2019), the 4,914th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,315th in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Athlete.

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  • 50.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jackie Joyner-Kersee ranks 298 out of 6,025. Before her are Vilho Niittymaa, Yevgeny Grishin, Albert Tyler, Micheline Ostermeyer, Henri Deloge, and Camille Mandrillon. After her are Jonni Myyrä, Luigi Beccali, Bobbie Rosenfeld, Juan Carlos Zabala, Sándor Rozsnyói, and Henry Russell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Jackie Joyner-Kersee ranks 169. Before her are Michael Weikath, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Uwe Rahn, MC Hammer, Wim Kieft, and Taslima Nasrin. After her are Branko Đurić, Bertrand Gachot, Joan Osborne, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Nawal El Moutawakel, and Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jackie Joyner-Kersee ranks 4,914 out of 20,380. Before her are Gregory Hines (1946), David Brin (1950), Otis Rush (1934), Doug Jones (1960), Catharine MacKinnon (1946), and William Joseph Simmons (1880). After her are Walter Isaacson (1952), Joshua Logan (1908), Daniel Morgan (1736), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), Ryan Phillippe (1974), and Julie Benz (1972).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Jackie Joyner-Kersee ranks 67. Before her are William Hoyt (1875), Alice Coachman (1923), Mildred McDaniel (1933), Rafer Johnson (1935), Helen Stephens (1918), and Albert Tyler (1872). After her are Henry Russell (1904), Ethel Catherwood (1908), Don Bragg (1935), Bob King (1906), Arthur Blake (1872), and Evelyn Ashford (1957).

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