Simmone Jacobs
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Nationality | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Reading, Berkshire | 5 September 1966|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Kim Simmone Geraldine Jacobs (born 5 September 1966) is a female retired British athlete who competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She represented Great Britain at four Olympic Games (1984–96), winning a bronze medal as a 17-year-old at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics in the 4 x 100 metres relay. She also won a relay bronze medal at the 1990 European Championships and relay medals at three Commonwealth Games.
Career
[edit]Jacobs was born in Reading, Berkshire, England. She was a member of the Reading Athletic Club and later Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers. Her career best times are 11.31 secs for 100 metres (1988) and 22.95 for the 200 metres (1996). She won the AAA Championships 200 metres title in 1986, 1988 and 1996, and the UK Championship 200 metres title in 1997. A talented junior, she won three medals at the 1983 European Junior Championships and won an Olympic bronze medal aged 17, along with Heather Oakes, Kathy Cook and Bev Callender, with Jacobs replacing an injured Shirley Thomas in the British sprint relay squad at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. She also won sprint relay bronze at the 1990 European Championships; relay silver at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, and relay bronzes at the 1994 and 1998 Commonwealth Games. Her other individual results include finishing fourth in the 200 metres final at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh (just 0.02 from a medal), and seventh in the 100 metres final at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
International competitions
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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1983 | European Junior Championships | Schwechat, Austria | 2nd | 100 m | 11.59 sec |
3rd | 200 m | 23.28 | |||
3rd | 4 × 100 m | 44.86 | |||
1984 | Olympic Games | Los Angeles, United States | 3rd | 4 × 100 m | 43.11 |
1986 | Commonwealth Games | Edinburgh, Scotland | 4th | 200 m | 23.48 |
1987 | World Championships | Rome, Italy | quarter-final | 100m | 11.83 |
1988 | Olympic Games | Seoul, South Korea | quarter-final | 100 m | 11.31 |
quarter-final | 200 m | 23.38 | |||
semi-final | 4 × 100 m | 43.50 | |||
1990 | Commonwealth Games | Auckland, New Zealand | 7th | 100 m | 11.53 |
2nd | 4 × 100 m | 44.15 | |||
European Championships | Split, Yugoslavia | 3rd | 4 × 100 m | 43.32 | |
1991 | World Championships | Tokyo, Japan | semi-final | 200m | 23.72 (23.37) |
heats | 4 × 100 m | 43.43 | |||
1992 | Olympic Games | Barcelona, Spain | quarter-final | 200 m | 23.61 |
1993 | World Championships | Stuttgart, Germany | 8th | 4 × 100 m | 43.83 |
1994 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 18th (h) | 200m | 23.75 (wind: -2.1 m/s) |
5th | 4 × 100 m relay | 43.63 | |||
Commonwealth Games | Victoria, Canada | semi-final | 100m | 11.47 | |
3rd | 4 × 100 m | 43.46 | |||
World Cup | London, United Kingdom | 8th | 4 × 100 m | 44.45 | |
1996 | Olympic Games | Atlanta, United States | quarter-final | 200 m | 22.96 |
8th | 4 × 100 m | 43.93 | |||
1998 | Commonwealth Games | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | semi-final | 100 m | 11.71 |
semi-final | 200 m | 23.73 | |||
3rd | 4 × 100 m | 43.69 |
References
[edit]- ^ "1990 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "England team in 1990". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "1994 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "England team in 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "1998 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "England team in 1998". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- Simmone Jacobs at World Athletics
- Kubatko, Justin. "Simone Jacobs Biography and Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Great Britain
- Sportspeople from Reading, Berkshire
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- English female sprinters
- British female sprinters
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic female sprinters
- Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games