Lolo jones biography
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Lolo Jones
Olympic Experience
- 2012 Olympic Games, 4th place in 100m hurdles
- 2008 Olympic Games, 7th place in 100m hurdles
Career Highlights
- 11-time NCAA All-American
- Four-time U.S. Indoor champion (2007, 2008, 2009, 2012)
- 2010, World Indoor champion
- 2010, U.S. Outdoor champion
- 2010, U.S. Indoor silver medalist
- 2008, World Indoor champion
- 2007, U.S. Outdoor bronze medalist
Career Highlights
- 2013, World Championship team event gold medalist (w/ driver Elana Meyers, John Daly, Noelle Pikus-Pace, Steven Holcomb, Curt Tomasevicz)
- 2013, World Cup in Igls, Austria team event bronze medalist (w/ driver Elana Meyers, Matt Antoine, Katie Uhlaender, Steven Holcomb, Nic Taylor)
- 2012, World Cup in Lake Placid silver medalist (w/ Jazmine Fenlator)
Fun Facts: Donated her Olympic Trials prize money to Iowa flood victims ... Of French, African-American, Native American and Norwegian descent ... Most followed U.S. Track and Field athlete on Twitter
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Lolo Jones
American hurdler and bobsledder
Not to be confused with Iolo Ceredig Jones.
Lori Susan "Lolo" Jones[1][4][5] (born August 5, 1982) is an American hurdler and bobsledder who specializes in the 60-meter and 100-meter hurdles. She won three NCAA titles and garnered 11 All-American honors while at Louisiana State University. She won indoor national titles in 2007, 2008, and 2009 in the 60-meter hurdles, with gold medals at the World Indoor Championship in 2008 and 2010.
She was favored to win the 100-meter hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but tripped on the penultimate hurdle, finishing in seventh place. She went on to win gold at the 2008 World Athletics Final, beating the newly crowned Olympic champion Dawn Harper with a time of 12.56. Jones was the American record holder in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 7.72 until 2018 when both Kendra Harrison and Sharika Nelvis improved the time to 7.70.[6]
Jones also competes as a brakewoman on the U.S. national bobsled team. She won a gold medal in the mixed team event at the 2013 World Championships and in the two-woman bobsled at the 2021 World Championships. She represented the U.S. at the 2014 Winter Olympics, making her one of the few athletes who has competed
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