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| Full name | Brittney Davon Reese |
| Born | (1986-09-09)September 9, 1986 (age 39) Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| Home town | Gulfport, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Agent | Mark Pryor |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) |
| Weight | 140 lb (64 kg) |
| Sport | |
| Country |  United States |
| Sport | Track and field |
Event | Long jump |
| College team | Ole Miss |
| Club | Nike |
| Turned pro | June 2008 |
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Brittney Davon Reese (born September 9, 1986) is a retired Americanlong jumper, Olympic gold medalist, and a seven-time world champion. Reese is the indoor American record holder in the long jump with a distance of 7.23 meters.
Born inInglewood, California,[1] Reese was a 2004 graduate ofGulfport High School inGulfport, Mississippi, where she became state champion in the long jump and triple jump.[2] She later attendedMGCCC and theUniversity of Mississippi. Reese was a member of the women's basketball team at MGCCC and was recently inducted into their sports Hall of Fame.[citation needed]
Reese has been assistant track and field coach atSan Diego Mesa College since 2013.[3]
She was theNCAA Outdoor Champion in long jump in 2007 and 2008. Reese set a personal best in the long jump of 22 feet 9.75 inches (6.95 meters) in July 2008 inEugene, Oregon at the U.S. Olympic Trials to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. At the Olympics, Reese had the best qualifying jump at 6.87 meters. However, Reese placed fifth in the final, with a jump of 6.76 meters.
On May 24, 2009, inBelém, Reese extended her personal best to 7.06 m (0.7 m/s wind). This brought her to third on the American all-time list, behindMarion Jones andJackie Joyner-Kersee.[4]
At the2009 World Athletics Championships, inBerlin, Reese won the long jump title with a jump of 7.10 meters, beating defending championTatyana Lebedeva.[5] Reese is the third youngest champion in the history of the event.[6]
At the2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Reese won the gold medal in the long jump with a jump of 6.70 meters.
At the2011 World Championships in Athletics, Reese successfully retained the gold medal in the long jump with a jump of 6.82 meters.[7]
At the2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Reese successfully retained the gold medal in the long jump with a jump of 7.23 meters.[8] She became the first woman to win back-to-back World indoor titles in the long jump when she landed a 7.23 m last round effort, the longest mark indoors since 1989, a new American record and third on the all-time indoor lists. At the start of the outdoor season she brokeCarol Lewis' long-standing meet record at theMt SAC Relays with a jump of 7.12 m.[9] That year, she also won the Olympic gold medal, with another jump of 7.12 m.[10]
Reese won her third consecutive long jump world outdoor title at the2013 World Championships inMoscow with a jump of 7.01m, beatingBlessing Okagbare narrowly by 2 cm.
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On November 14, 2011, Reese donated 100 turkeys and her time to various homeless and religious organizations in her community ofGulfport, Mississippi as her way of "giving back" to the community that has supported her throughout her athletic career.[11] She wanted to make Thanksgiving a little easier, in an area where there are few resources for those in need.
On October 26, 2012, in conjunction with the Gulfport School District celebrating "Brittney Reese Day"; Reese created the B. Reese Scholarship which will be awarded annually to 1 male & 1 female student who has been accepted to a 2-year or 4-year college.
On May 21, 2013, theReese Scholarship was awarded in Baltimore County Public Schools to a deserving student accepted to college or university who participated in the Allied Sports Program, coordinated by the Office of Athletics Director Michael Sye. The 2014 recipient of the scholarship isBailey Weinkam, a Catonsville High School student that was born hearing impaired. Ms. Weinkam will attend Community College of Baltimore County in Fall 2014.
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes | |
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| 2007 | World Championships | Osaka,Japan | 8th | Long jump | 6.60 m (21 ft7+3⁄4 in) | |
| 2008 | Olympic Games | Beijing,China | 5th | Long jump | 6.76 m (22 ft 2 in) | |
| 2009 | World Championships | Berlin,Germany | 1st | Long jump | 7.10 m (23 ft3+1⁄2 in) | |
| 2010 | World Indoor Championships | Doha,Qatar | 1st | Long jump | 6.70 m (21 ft11+3⁄4 in) | |
| 2011 | World Championships | Daegu,South Korea | 1st | Long jump | 6.82 m (22 ft4+1⁄2 in) | |
| 2012 | World Indoor Championships | Istanbul,Turkey | 1st | Long jump | 7.23 m (23 ft8+1⁄2 in) | |
| Olympic Games | London,United Kingdom | 1st | Long jump | 7.12 m (23 ft4+1⁄4 in) | ||
| 2013 | World Championships | Moscow,Russia | 1st | Long jump | 7.01 m (22 ft11+3⁄4 in) | |
| 2015 | World Championships | Beijing, China | 24th (q) | Long jump | 6.39 m (20 ft11+1⁄2 in) | |
| 2016 | World Indoor Championships | Portland,United States | 1st | Long jump | 7.22 m (23 ft8+1⁄4 in) | |
| Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro,Brazil | 2nd | Long jump | 7.15 m (23 ft5+1⁄4 in) | ||
| 2017 | World Championships | London,United Kingdom | 1st | Long jump | 7.02 m (23 ft1⁄4 in) | |
| 2018 | World Indoor Championships | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 2nd | Long jump | 6.89 m (22 ft7+1⁄4 in) | |
| 2019 | World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 13th (q) | Long jump | 6.52 m (21 ft4+1⁄2 in) | |
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 2nd | Long jump | 6.97 m (22 ft10+1⁄4 in) | |
| Event | Best (m) | Venue | Date | Note(s) |
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| Long jump (outdoor) | 7.31 +1.7 | Eugene | July 2, 2016 | = #9 all time |
| Long jump (indoor) | 7.23 | Istanbul | March 11, 2012 | AR,NR,4th of all time |
Reese, who was born in Inglewood, Calif., and moved at the age of 3 to Mississippi
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| Notes | * Standing long jump was contested from 1927-61 and in 1964. An exhibition running long jump was held in 1948, also won by Cowperthwaite-Phillips. |
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