Judith ("Jodi") Anderson (born November 10, 1957, in
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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) is a retired
heptathlete
A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...
from the
United States
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. While attending college at
California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge (CSUN or Cal State Northridge) is a public university in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. With a total enrollment of 38,551 students (as of Fall 2021), it has the second largest un ...
, Anderson qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but did not compete due to the U.S. Olympic Committee's
boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. She was one of 461 athletes to receive a
Congressional Gold Medal
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instead.
She set the world's best year performance in the women's
long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...
in 1981. She did compete for her native country at the
1984 Summer Olympics
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in
Los Angeles, California
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.
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1957 births
Living people
American heptathletes
American female long jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 1979 Pan American Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Olympic track and field athletes of the United States
Track and field athletes from Chicago
Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States
Congressional Gold Medal recipients
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade bronze medalists for the United States
Medalists at the 1977 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 1979 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games
21st-century American women
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