Jane Frederick

Personal information

Born

April 7, 1952

Medal record

Women's Athletics
Competitor for the United States
Universiade
Gold	1975 Rome	Pentathlon

Jane Wardell Frederick (born April 7, 1952) is a former heptathlete from the United States. She set the first official world record in the women's heptathlon, gaining a total number of 6104 points on April 24, 1981 at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, California.

Book

Emert, Phyllis Raybin, Jane Frederick, Pentathlon Champion Harvey House (1981) ISBN 978-0-8178-0017-8 (Juvenile audience)

References

Records
Preceded by None	Women's Heptathlon World Record Holder April 24, 1981 — May 5, 1981	Succeeded by Nadezhda Vinogradova

Summer Universiade Champions in Women's Pentathlon and Heptathlon

1965–1979: Pentathlon 1981–2013: Heptathlon

1965: Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS) 1967: Liese Prokop (AUT) 1970: Tatyana Kondrashova (URS) 1973: Nadezhda Tkachenko (URS) 1975: Jane Frederick (USA) 1977: Valentina Dimitrova (BUL) 1979: Yekaterina Smirnova (URS) 1981: Małgorzata Guzowska (POL) 1983: Yekaterina Smirnova (URS) 1985: Małgorzata Guzowska (POL) 1987: Liliana Năstase (ROM) 1989: Larisa Nikitina (URS) 1991: Birgit Clarius (GER) 1993: Urszula Włodarczyk (POL) 1995: Jane Jamieson (AUS) 1997: Mona Steigauf (GER) 1999: Tiffany Lott (USA) 2001: Jane Jamieson (AUS) 2003: Kylie Wheeler (AUS) 2005: Lyudmyla Blonska (UKR) 2007: Viktorija Žemaitytė (LTU) 2009: Jessica Samuelsson (SWE) 2011: Olga Kurban (RUS) 2013: Tatyana Chernova (RUS)