Kelly Blair

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[edit] 2000 USATF athlete biography

  • Married name: Kelly Blair-LaBounty
  • Event: Heptathlon
  • Height: 5' 11"
  • Weight: 145 lb
  • PR: 6465 (1997 & 1998)

Career Highlights: 2-Time Olympian (1996, 2000); 8th at 1996 Olympics; 3-time U.S. Outdoor champion; 10th at 1995, 1997 World Championships; 1998 Goodwill Games bronze medalist; 1993 NCAA Outdoor champion.

The defending Olympic Trials champion is coming off a spinal disc injury. An all-state basketball player her last two years in high school, Blair was named MVP on the state championship team. She later received more scholarship offers for basketball than track, and she played basketball for two years at Oregon. "I realized [in 1992] if I wanted to be really good at the heptathlon I would have to train all year."

A finance/management student at Oregon, she trained with Elzbieta and Andrzej Krzesinski after college ... moved to Seattle in 1996 after the Olympics... problems with plantar fascitis after the Olympics...married Matt LaBounty, a defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks, on January 31, 1998.

2000: Won Texas Relays (6217w)...3rd at Olympic Trials (6180).

1999: Did not compete due to a spinal disc injury that affected her hip and leg.

1998: Won USA Outdoors (6402)...3rd at Goodwill Games (6465 -PR)...8th at Talence (6059); injured...ranked #7 in world (#2 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 6465.

1997: Won USA Outdoors (6465 PR); 9th in long jump (20 ft 7 in, 6.27 m)...10th at World Champs (6253)...ranked #9 in world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 6465.

1996: Won Olympic Trials (6406 PR); tied for 18th in long jump qualifying (20 ft 2½ in, 6.15 m)...8th in Olympic Games (6307)...ranked #10 in world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 6406.

1995: 3rd in USA Outdoors (6354 PR)...10th in World Champs (6229)...ranked #3 U.S. by T&FN...best of 6354.

1994: Won Pac-10 heptathlon (5527) and long jump (20 ft ½ in, 6.10 m); 4th in 100 m hurdles (13.83 s)...2nd in NCAA Outdoor (5877)...4th in USA Outdoors (5907)...ranked #5 U.S. by T&FN...best of 5907.

1993: Bronze at World University Games (5926)...ranked #4 U.S. by T&FN...won Pac-10 (5989); 3rd in 100 m hurdles (13.61 s); tied for 3rd in high jump (5 ft 8¾ in, 1.74 m); 3rd in long jump (19 ft 9½ in, 6.03 m)...won NCAA Outdoor (6038 PR)...4th in USA Outdoors (5828)...best of 6038.

1992: Tore an ankle tendon in her first meet and was redshirted...best of 5485w.

1991: 6th in NCAA Outdoor (5377)...best of 5404.

1990: Best of 5042.

1989: Won USA Juniors...won state HS titles in 100 m hurdles, 300 m hurdles, high jump, long jump ...silver at Pan-Am Juniors...best of 5152.

1988: Won state HS titles in 100 m hurdles, 300 m hurdles, high jump, long jump...won USA Juniors; 7th in long jump; 14th in high jump...best of 5231.

1987: Won state HS titles in 100 m hurdles, high jump...best of 4436.

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