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Al Joyner
American track and field coach and former athlete
Alfrederick Joyner (born January 19, )[1] is an American track and field coach and former athlete. He was born in East St. Louis, Illinois. He is the Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump. He was also the coach and husband of the late four-time Olympic medalist Florence Griffith Joyner and is the brother of six-time Olympic medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
Career
A star athlete at Lincoln High School in East St. Louis, Illinois, Joyner went on to attend Arkansas State University. He competed with their track and field team throughout his college career and, by the time he graduated, Joyner was a three-time NCAA All-American indoor champion, a three-time NCAA All-American and outdoor champion, a four-time Southland Conference champ and had placed 8th in the triple jump at the World Championships in Helsinki, Finland.
Joyner was also an accomplished sprint hurdler, placing 2nd and top American in the 60 yards hurdles at the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships. He also experimented with the five-event athletics pentathlon.[2]
In Joyner traveled to Los Angeles for the Summer Games to compete with the U.S.
Olympic track and field team.
Biography of albert einstein Khruangbin and Lord Huron to headline Outside Festival. Get after it with local recommendations just for you. The fastest woman on the planet set world record times of Look good to feel good. And feel good to run fast!With a leap of 56 feet inches, he became the first African American in 80 years to win a gold medal in the triple jump. He was honored with the Jim Thorpe Award, which is given every four years to the best American competitor in an Olympic Field Event. That same year, he cheered his sister Jackie Joyner Kersee as she competed in the heptathlon. When she captured a silver in the event, they became the first sibling teammates in U.S.
history to win medals during the same Olympics.
On October 10, , Joyner married track athlete Florence Griffith, later known as Flo–Jo.
Gold medal-winning African-American Olympic sprinter known as "the fastest woman alive. Began running track at age seven, eventually qualifying for the Olympics after supporting her training by working as, among other things, a waitress and a hairstylist; won a silver medal in the meter sprint at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles ; medaled at the World Outdoor Championships, taking second in the meter and running on the winning 4x relay team; returned to the Olympic arena for the Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea , in which she won three gold medals , , 4x and one silver 4x , becoming the most decorated female sprinter in Olympic history ; named U. It was not the best weather for a track-and-field meet. Given the lethargic heat of a Midwest summer, an unusual amount of excited energy filled the stadium when a tall, strikingly beautiful runner assumed her assigned position at the blocks for a preliminary heat of the women's meter dash—the first salvo in the fierce competition for a berth on the U. Olympic team which would travel to Seoul, South Korea , in two months' time.The two met in at the Olympic trials registration. He later became his wife's coach. Griffith Joyner won three gold medals at the Olympic Games. Their daughter, Mary Ruth, was born in Griffith-Joyner died from an epileptic seizure at the age of 38 in After his wife's death, Joyner began traveling to promote her newly published book, Running for Dummies, and jump-start the Florence Griffith Joyner charity/scholarship fund.
Flo jo joyner biography of albert Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner [ 4 ] born Florence Delorez Griffith ; [ 2 ] December 21, — September 21, , also known as Flo-Jo , was an American track and field athlete and the fastest woman ever recorded. She was married to Al Joyner , a Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump. He was also her coach and husband during her success as a four-time Olympic medalist. They were married in until the time of her death, in They had one daughter together, Mary Joyner.He also began directing the Flo Jo Community Empowerment Foundation, an organization dedicated to making dreams come true for the youth around the world. One dollar from every sale of Running for Dummies is donated to this foundation.
Joyner has been inducted into the Arkansas State University Track and Field Hall of Fame (), the Arkansas Track and Field Hall of Fame () and the Illinois Track and Field Hall of Fame ().
He was hired by to write columns on track and field for the Olympic games in Sydney, Australia. During this time, he also coached two athletes with their sights on the U.S. Olympic Track and Field team, and was himself training to compete in the men's triple jump trials.
A knee injury prevented him from participating.
Joyner was on the University of California UCLA in Los Angeles' track and field staff as an assistant coach/women's jumps coach from to He was the sprint & jump coach for the USOC Paralympics team in Helsinki, which won 16 out of the 30 medals the USA team won. In , he joined the USATF/ USOC coaching staff and became the full-time USOC high performance jump coach in