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| Born | (1971-10-24)October 24, 1971 (age 54) Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||
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Diane Claire Guthrie-Gresham (born 24 October 1971) is a retired femaletrack and field athlete fromJamaica, who specialized in thelong jump andheptathlon during her career.
Diane holds the National Collegiate Athletics Association championship meet record for women's Heptathlon, as well as the Caribbean record for that event. Competing forGeorge Mason University, she compiled a total of 6527 at the University of Tennessee's Tom Black Track in Knoxville, Tennessee, between 2–3 June 1995. She won her second NCAA title with that mark, and also brokeJackie Joyner-Kersee's NCAA meet record. Joyner-Kersee had set the record of 6390 points in Houston in 1983 when she was competing for UCLA, by 137 points.[citation needed]
Lifetime best: 6527(13.86w, 1.86/6-1¼, 13.80/45-3½, 24.91 [3728], 6.92/22-8½w), 49.04/160-11, 2:20.82 [2799])[citation needed]
She was born inSaint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica. While atGeorge Mason University, she won the Broderick Award (now theHonda Sports Award) as the nation's best female collegiate track and field competitor in 1995.[1][2]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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| 1991 | Pan American Games | Havana, Cuba | 1st | Long jump | 6.64 m |
| 1992 | Olympic Games | Barcelona, Spain | — | Long jump | NM |
| 1996 | Olympic Games | Atlanta, United States | 16th | Heptathlon | 6087 |
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