Brittney REESE

Brittney Reese - U.S.A. - 2012 Olympic Games Long Jump Gold. Silver in 2016

Photo/Foto: George Herringshaw

Date: 08 August 2012

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    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Tuesday, 09 September 1986
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      Gulfport, Mississippi, U.S.A.
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Brittney REESE - U.S.A. - 2012 Olympic Games Long Jump Gold. Silver in 2016

Brittney Reese  in action at the London Olympic Games where she won the Gold medal

in the women's  long jump with a leap of 7.12 metres.

 

Four years later in Rio and with a jump of 7.15 she was pushed into second place by

fellow American Tianna Bartoletta, the 2005 & 2015 World Champion, and had to settle for

the silver medal.

Brittney in 2016 had jumped 7.22m indoors when winning the World Indoor

Championship. Her outdoor PB at the time was 7.31m.




Women's Long Jump Final.

2012 Olympic Games





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1. Brittney REESE   USA   7.12m
2. Elena SOKOLOVA   RUS   7.07m PB
3. Janay DELOACH
  USA   6.89m
4. Ineta RADEVICA
  LAT   6.88m SB
5. Anna NAZAROVA
  RUS   6.77m
6. Lyudmila KOLCHANOVA
  RUS   6.76m
7. Nastassia MIRONCHYK-IVANOVA
  BLR   6.72m
8. Eloyse LESUEUR
  FRA   6.67m

 


 

2016 Rio Olympic Games.

Women's long jump final.


 1.
     Tianna Bartoletta    United States   
 7.17  PB
 2.       Brittney Reese    United States  7.15  
 3.       Ivana Spanovic    Serbia  7.08  NR
 4.
      Malaika Mihambo    Germany  6.95  PB
 5.       Ese Brume    Nigeria  6.81  
 6.       Ksenija Balta    Estonia  6.79  
 7.       Brooke Stratton    Australia  6.74  
 8.       Jazmin Sawyers   Great Britain  6.69