Jearl Atawa Miles Clark (

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Miles; born September 4, 1966, in

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) is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 and 800 meters. She held the American record in the women's 800 m at 1:56.40. She competed for the United States in the

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held in

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in the 4 × 400 meters where she won the silver medal with her teammates

Natasha Kaiser Natasha Kaiser-Brown (born May 14, 1967) is an American sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres, 400 meter run. As of 2022, she is the head coach of track and field at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Kaiser-Brown was born i ...

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and Rochelle Stevens. She returned to the

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where she again ran with Rochelle Stevens and fellow Americans Maicel Malone and

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to win the gold medal in the 4 × 400 meters. She made a third appearance in the Olympics in the

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held in

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and again walked off with the gold medal in the 4 × 400 metres with her teammates

Monique Hennagan Monique Hennagan (born May 26, 1976, in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres. She won her first relay medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships and her second in 2003. Monique Hennagan gradua ...

Marion Jones Marion Lois Jones (born October 12, 1975), also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is an American former world champion track-and-field athlete and former professional basketball player. She won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the 2000 ...

and

LaTasha Colander-Richardson LaTasha Colander (born August 23, 1976, in Portsmouth, Virginia) is a retired track and field sprinter who competed internationally for the United States. In 1994, on athletic scholarship, Colander enrolled at, and later graduated from, the Uni ...

. This medal was later stripped due to steroid doping admissions of Marion Jones. However, she and 6 other members of the team would successfully appeal the decision to strip them of their medals in July 2010. She is married to J. J. Clark, brother of Olympians

Joetta Clark Joetta Clark Diggs (, born August 1, 1962) is an American retired track and field champion, specializing in middle distance running. She ran for more than 28 consecutive years never missing an indoor or outdoor season, with her races bein ...

and

Hazel Clark Hazel Mae Clark (born October 3, 1977) is an American middle-distance runner who specializes in the 800 meters middle distance race. She was a member of the U.S. Olympic team in 2000, 2004 and 2008. She has won six national titles and two USA O ...

. Her father-in-law is

Joe Louis Clark Joe Louis Clark (May 8, 1938 – December 29, 2020) was an American educator and administrator, who was best known for his tenure as principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey from 1982 to 1989. He gained national attention for hi ...

. She was a volunteer track and field coach at the

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, where her husband worked as head coach for track and field. She was inducted into the

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in 2010.USATF Interview after election to Hall of Fame
/ref> Miles-Clark is a 1989 graduate of

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. She currently resides with her husband, J.J. and their son, Jorell in California.

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