Diane Guthrie-Gresham

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Diane Claire Guthrie-Gresham (born October 24, 1971 in Saint Elizabeth) is a retired female track and field athlete from Jamaica, who specialized in the Long Jump and Heptathlon 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 for George 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 broke Jackie 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.

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])

Achievements

Representing Jamaica
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

References

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v t e Pan American Champions in Women's Long Jump

1951: Beatriz Kretschmer (CHI) 1955: notheld 1959: Annie Smith (USA) 1963: Willye White (USA) 1967: Irene Martínez (CUB) 1971: Brenda Eisler (CAN) 1975: Ana Alexander (CUB) 1979 – 1983: Kathy McMillan (USA) 1987: Jackie Joyner (USA) 1991: Diane Guthrie-Gresham (JAM) 1995: Niurka Montalvo (CUB) 1999: Maurren Maggi (BRA) 2003: Alice Falaiye (CAN) 2007 – 2011: Maurren Maggi (BRA)

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Name	Guthrie-Gresham, Diane
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Date of birth	October 24, 1971
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