Quanesha Burks

Burks in 2018
Personal information
Born	(1995-03-15)15 March 1995 (age 30) Ozark, Alabama, United States
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event	Long jump
Medal record Representing United States NACAC Championships 2015 San José Long jump 2022 Freeport Long jump

Quanesha Burks (born March 15, 1995) is an Americantrack and field athlete who mainly competes as along jumper. She represented her country at the2015 Pan American Games and the2017 World Championships in Athletics. She was the gold medalist at the regional2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics. Collegiately, she competed forAlabama Crimson Tide and was the 2015 NCAA Division I champion in long jump.

Born to Lesha Dobbins inOzark, Alabama, she attended Hartselle High School and went on to study atUniversity of Alabama. Burks has four younger siblings; two brothers and two sisters. While a high school student, she took up track and performed well, going on to place third in thetriple jump at the 2012USATF Junior Olympics and winning a100-meter dash/long jump/triple jump triple at the 2013 state championships.^[1]

Burks competed for theAlabama Crimson Tide where she was a multiple-timeSoutheastern Conference champion and multiple-timeNCAA champion, including being Alabama's first women's long jump champion.^[2][3][4] In college, she also competed in the 100 meter dash and 4x100 relay.^[5] Her first NCAA long jump title came at the2015 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. She was runner-up to Jamaica'sChanice Porter at the2016 NCAA Outdoor Championships and also took second at the2017 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships afterSha'Keela Saunders.

Burks made her international debut at the age of nineteen, competing in the long jump at the2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics, where she placed fifth.^[6] A senior gold medal came at the2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics, where she set the championship record at 6.93 m.^[7] She managed eighth place in the final at the2015 Pan American Games, but took a second regional gold at the2016 NACAC Under-23 Championships in Athletics, breaking the championship record with a jump of 6.74 m.^[8] After a fourth place finish at the2017 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships,^[9] her global senior debut came at the2017 World Championships in Athletics, though she did not make it beyond the qualifying round.^[6]

She was third at the 2018PSD Bank Meeting on theIAAF World Indoor Tour,^[10][11] then finished second toBrittney Reese at the2018 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships to earn qualification to the2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships^[12] where she finished 4th.

Representing the United States

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
2014	World Junior Championships	Eugene, United States	5th	Long jump	6.04 m
2015	NACAC Championships	San José, Costa Rica	1st	Long jump	6.93 mCR
	Pan American Games	Toronto, Canada	8th	Long jump	6.47 m
2016	NACAC Under-23 Championships	San Salvador, El Salvador	1st	Long jump	6.74 mCR
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	14th (q)	Long jump	6.44 m
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	4th	Long jump	6.81 m
	NACAC Championships	Toronto, Canada	2nd	Long jump	6.59 m
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	13th (q)	Long jump	6.56 m
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	5th	Long jump	6.77 m
	World Championships	Eugene, United States	4th	Long jump	6.88 m
	NACAC Championships	Freeport, Bahamas	1st	Long jump	6.75 m
2023	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	16th (q)	Long jump	6.57 m
2025	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	8th	Long jump	6.60 m

• NCAA Outdoor Championships
  • Long jump:2015

Burks grew up in poverty. She worked at McDonald's as a high school student to help pay for her grandmother's car insurance.^[13]

• Quanesha Burks atWorld Athletics

• USA Indoor Track and Field Championships winners
• Living people
• Track and field athletes from Alabama
• People from Ozark, Alabama
• American women long jumpers
• Pan American Games track and field athletes for the United States
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games
• World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States
• African-American track and field athletes
• Alabama Crimson Tide women's track and field athletes
• 1995 births
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
• Olympic track and field athletes for the United States
• 21st-century African-American sportswomen
• 21st-century American sportswomen
• NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
• NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships winners
• Sportspeople from Dale County, Alabama

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