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FACTBOX: Career highlights of Marion Jones

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NEW YORK | Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:39pm EST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Career highlights for U.S. sprinter Marion Jones who was sentenced to six months in prison on Friday for lying to federal prosecutors about her steroid use and misleading them about her knowledge of a check fraud case involving her former boyfriend Tim Montgomery:

ATHLETICS

Personal bests:

60 meters - 6.95 seconds (1998, equal fifth best all-time)

100 meters - 10.65 seconds (1998, fourth best all-time)

200 meters - 21.62 seconds (1998, third best all-time)

Long jump - 7.31 meters (1998)

* Won 42 successive 100m between 1997 and 2001.

* Won 34 successive individual events in 1998 before second-place finish in World Cup long jump

OLYMPICS

2000 - Gold medals in 100m, 200m and 4x400m relay and bronze medals in long jump and 4x100m relay at Sydney Games. First female to win five track and field medals at a single Games. (Stripped of all medals and results by International Olympic Committee in 2007 after she admitted using steroids.)

2004 - Fifth in long jump, ran on U.S. 4x100m relay team that did not finish. (Results expunged by International Olympic Committee in 2007 after she admitted using steroids.)

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

1997 - Gold medals in 100m and 4x100m relay

1999 - Gold medal in 100m, bronze in long jump

2001 - Gold medals in 200m and 4x100m relay, silver in 100m

(Results expunged by IAAF after she admitted using steroids beginning on Sept 1, 2000)

BASKETBALL

All-America point guard for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's women's basketball team that won 1994 U.S. collegiate championship.

(Compiled by Gene Cherry, editing by Justin Palmer)

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