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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, ranked among the all-time greats in the heptathlon as well as long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals in those two events at four different Olympic Games. Sports Illustrated for Women magazine voted Joyner-Kersee the Greatest Female Athlete of All-Time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jackie Joyner-Kersee has received more than 2,235,944 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Jackie Joyner-Kersee is the 444th most popular athlete (up from 509th in 2019), the 6,328th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,810th in 2019) and the 89th most popular American Athlete.

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  • 2.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jackie Joyner-Kersee ranks 444 out of 3,059Before her are Ricardo Delgado, Ted Meredith, Marlies Göhr, Irina Privalova, Albert Tyler, and Nelson Prudêncio. After her are Giuseppe Gentile, František Janda-Suk, Gaston Aumoitte, Sid Atkinson, Ivo Trumbić, and Nino Bibbia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Jackie Joyner-Kersee ranks 211Before her are Michael Andretti, Stephen Sommers, Ricardo Rocha, Philippe Claudel, Nia Vardalos, and Valérie Kaprisky. After her are Sergey Kiriyenko, Ulisses Correia e Silva, Alison Arngrim, Ikililou Dhoinine, Marc Cherry, and Colin Salmon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jackie Joyner-Kersee ranks 6,328 out of 18,182Before her are William Castle (1914), Jack Colvin (1934), Pauline Oliveros (1932), Joseph Paul Franklin (1950), Monique Alexander (1982), and Anna Schwartz (1915). After her are Kay Sage (1898), Trip Hawkins (1953), Willis H. O'Brien (1886), Clint Walker (1927), David Blatt (1959), and Jenette Goldstein (1960).

Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Jackie Joyner-Kersee ranks 89Before her are Bud Houser (1901), Lindy Remigino (1931), Frank Irons (1886), Bill Carr (1909), Ted Meredith (1891), and Albert Tyler (1872). After her are Lewis Sheldon (1874), Dexter Jackson (1969), Evelyn Ashford (1957), Harold Osborn (1899), Bill Holland (1874), and Barbara Jones (1937).