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Tianna Bartoletta
Tianna Bartoletta (née Madison; born August 30, 1985) is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the long jump and short sprinting events. She is a two-time Olympian with three gold medals. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she placed fourth in the 100m race then won her first gold by leading off the world record-setting 4 × 100 m relay team. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she won two more golds, first with a personal best to win the long jump then again leading off the victorious 4 × 100 m relay team. Other achievements include winning the long jump World Championship in 2005 and 2015, plus the long jump World Indoor Championship in 2006. She also was a pusher on the U.S. bobsled team in 2012.
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1985-08-30
Birth Place
Elyria, Ohio, U.S.
Nationality
American
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1.6764000000000001
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Tianna Bartoletta: ‘There Was No Way I Could Think About Defending the Title Until I Actually Got Baseline Healthy’

Tianna Bartoletta is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, with wins on the U.S. 4x100m relay team in 2012 and 2016 and an individual victory in the long jump in 2016. During the 2019 season, a pre-competition drug test alerted Bartoletta that she was suffering from severe anemia. Iron transfusions didn’t help and, by that December, when she should have been competing in indoor track before the Olympic Trials prep, a doctor diagnosed a tumor—benign but hemorrhaging blood—that required emergency surgery later that day.
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New author Tianna Bartoletta opens up about her memoir, Survive and Advance.

On Tuesday, June 8, three-time Olympic gold medalist Tianna Bartoletta published her highly anticipated memoir Survive and Advance. The sprinter and long jumper has been a long time blogger, ever since escaping a toxic and abusive marriage in 2017. Her blog posts, often widely shared on Twitter, showcased her talent as a writer and provided glimpses of her history and hardships, but Survive and Advance is the whole story, raw and real.
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Triple Gold Medalist Tianna Bartoletta Opens Up

The sprinter and long jumper with three Olympic gold medals and three world championships titles has spent as much of her life sharpening her writing skills as she has her track and field prowess. Tianna Bartoletta has equally inspired in both disciplines—and in 2021 she’ll publish her memoir, Defying Gravity, while attempting to make her third Olympic team.
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