Jearl Miles Clark, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jearl Miles Clark

Athletics competitor, sprinter, 400 metres runner

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1966

Place of Birth: Gainesville, Florida, United States

Profession: sprinter, middle-distance runner

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Jearl Miles Clark

  • Jearl Atawa Miles Clark (née Miles; born September 4, 1966 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 and 800 meters.She held the American record in the women's 800 m at 1:56.40. She competed for the United States in the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain in the 4 x 400 meters where she won the Silver medal with her teammates Natasha Kaiser, Gwen Torrence and Rochelle Stevens. She returned to the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, U.S.
  • where she again ran with Rochelle Stevens and fellow Americans Maicel Malone and Kim Graham to win the Gold medal in the 4 x 400 meters. She made a third appearance in the Olympics in the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia and again walked off with the Gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres with her teammates Monique Hennagan, Marion Jones and LaTasha Colander-Richardson.
  • This medal was later stripped due to steroid doping admissions of Marion Jones.
  • However, she and 6 other members of the team would successfully appeal the decision to strip them of their medals in July 2010.She is married to J.
  • J.
  • Clark, brother of Olympians Joetta Clark and Hazel Clark, who is also her and her sister-in-law's coach.
  • He is currently the Head Track and Field coach for the University of Connecticut.
  • Her father-in-law is Joe Louis Clark.
  • She is part of the 2010 class of the National Track and Field Hall of FameMiles-Clark is a 1989 graduate of Alabama A&M University. She currently resides with her husband, J.J.
  • and their son, Jorell in Mansfield, Connecticut.

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