This February, Sports Illustrated is celebrating Black History Month by spotlighting a different iconic athlete every day. Today, SI looks back on the legacy of Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee is among the greatest athletes of all-time. Sports Illustrated definitely thought so when the magazine named her the best female athlete of the 20th century.
Joyner-Kersee won six Olympic medals, including three golds in the heptathlon and long jump. She amassed four gold medals at the World Championships as well, an event that propelled her to national stardom in 1987. After winning two World Champion titles in Rome that year, she donned the cover of Sports Illustrated with the caption "Super Woman.