Janeene Vickers
{{short description|American former athlete (born 1968)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|October 3, 1968}}
| birth_place = Torrance, California, U.S.
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{{Medal|Sport | Women's athletics }}
{{Medal|Country | {{flagu|United States}} }}
{{Medal|Competition | Olympic Games }}
{{Medal|Bronze | 1992 Barcelona | 400 m hurdles }}
{{Medal|Competition | World Championships }}
{{Medal|Bronze | 1991 Tokyo | 400 m hurdles }}
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Janeene Hope Vickers-McKinney (née Vickers, born October 3, 1968) is an American former athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres hurdles. She won bronze medals in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1992 Olympic Games and the 1991 World Championships. She also won the 1990 US Championship.
Career
Born in Torrance, California, Vickers is a graduate of Pomona High School, where she had an outstanding high school career.[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-04-13-sp-4586-story.html Los Angeles Times] LA Times on Arcadia Invitational She dominated the CIF California State Meet winning both the 100 meter and 300 meter hurdles in both 1986 and 1987, adding the flat 100 meter title in 1987.{{cite web |url=http://www.prepcaltrack.com/ATHLETICS/TRACK/stateres.htm |title=California State Meet Results – 1915 to present |publisher=Hank Lawson |access-date=2012-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006092406/http://www.prepcaltrack.com/ATHLETICS/TRACK/stateres.htm |archive-date=2014-10-06 |url-status=dead }} She was Track and Field News "High School Athlete of the Year" in 1987.{{Cite web |url=http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/component/content/article/35-stats/2116-t-fn-girls-hs-aoy |title=Track & Field News - the Bible of the Sport Since 1948 |access-date=2015-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126173444/http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/component/content/article/35-stats/2116-t-fn-girls-hs-aoy |archive-date=2015-11-26 |url-status=dead }} She continued to UCLA to where she won three straight NCAA Championships in the 400 hurdles.{{cite web |url=http://www.hickoksports.com/history/ncawotrk.shtml |title=HickokSports.com – History – NCAA Division I Women's Outdoor Track |access-date=2010-02-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503071956/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/ncawotrk.shtml |archive-date=2009-05-03 }} hickosports
Vickers achieved her lifetime best in the 400m hurdles at the 1991 World Championships, where she won the bronze medal in 53.47 seconds, finishing behind the Soviet Union's Tatyana Ledovskaya (53.11) and Great Britain's Sally Gunnell (53.16), but ahead of her American team-mates Sandra Farmer-Patrick (53.95) and Kim Batten (53.98). This performance moved Vickers to seventh on the world all-time list and second on the US all-time list at the time. As of 2018, she ranks 14th on the US all-time list.
Vickers won an Olympic bronze medal at the 1992 Barcelona Games, running 54.31 secs to finish behind Gunnell (53.23) and Farmer-Patrick (53.69), and narrowly ahead of 1991 World champion Ledovskaya, who also clocked 54.31.
On November 4, 2011, Vickers (now Vickers-McKinney) was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.
International competitions
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| rowspan=2|1986
|rowspan=2|World Junior Championships |rowspan=2|Athens, United States |4th |400 m |52.25 |
| bgcolor=gold|1st
|4 × 400 m |3:30.45 |
| 1990
|Seattle, United States |bgcolor=pink|disqualified (3rd) |400 m hurdles |— |
| rowspan=2|1991
|Tokyo, Japan |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |400 m hurdles |
| Grand Prix Final
|Barcelona, Spain |bgcolor=silver|2nd |400 m hurdles |54.07 |
| 1992
|Barcelona, Spain |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |400 m hurdles |
Honours
1× Olympic Games Bronze medalist.{{Cite web |title=Janeene VICKERS {{!}} Profile {{!}} World Athletics |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/janeene-vickers-14346411 |access-date=2023-07-31 |website=worldathletics.org}}
1× World Championships Bronze medalist.
1× World U20 champion.
1× In Top 8 at World U20 Championships.
2× NCAA champion.
References
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External links
- {{World Athletics}}
- [http://www.dyestat.com/ATHLETICS//////TRACK/stat_rec.doc California State Records before 2000]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- {{cite Sports-Reference|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/vi/janeene-vickers-1.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714122549/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/vi/janeene-vickers-1.html |archivedate=2011-07-14 }}
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{{Gatorade National Track and Field Athlete of the Year}}
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Category:Sportspeople from Torrance, California
Category:Track and field athletes from California
Category:American female hurdlers
Category:Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in track and field
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States
Category:World Athletics Championships medalists
Category:UCLA Bruins women's track and field athletes
Category:Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games
Category:World Athletics U20 Championships winners
Category:NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
Category:20th-century American sportswomen
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