FACTBOX: Career highlights of Marion Jones
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 Continued...
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