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Heptathlon: Fountain sets 3 records in 1 shot

By Helene Elliott
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EUGENE, Ore.--Hyleas Fountain actually set three records with her 12.65 in the 100-meter hurdles to open the heptathlon competition.

Fountain, of Dayton, Ohio, bettered the previous American record for a heptathlon 100 set at Seoul in 1988 by Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

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She also broke Joyner-Kersee’s Olympic trials record of 12.71, set in 1988 at Indianapolis.

And for the hat trick, he bested Joyner-Kersee’s U.S. championship record heptathlon 100 time of 12.77, set in 1991 in New York.

--Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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