Marion Jones

Quick Facts

Full Name	Marion Jones
Occupation	Runner
Date Of Birth	Oct 12, 1975(1975-10-12)
Age	49
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Libra

Marion Jones Biography

Marion Jones is one of the most popular and richest Runner who was born on October 12, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, United States. American athlete who took home three gold as well as two bronze awards in the 2000 Sydney Olympics However, she was required to surrender all three after admitting to using steroids.

She was protected by the famed Laywer from O.J. Simpson, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. against doping charges in high school.

Marion Jones was born to George Jones and his wife, Marion, (originally from Belize) in Los Angeles, California. She holds dual citizenship with the United States and Belize. Her parents split when she was very young, and Jones’s mother remarried a retired postal worker, Ira Toler, three years later. Toler became a stay-at-home dad to Jones and her older half-brother, Albert Kelly, until his sudden death in 1987. Jones turned to sports as an outlet for her grief; running, pickup basketball games, and anything else her brother Albert was doing athletically. By the age of 15 she was routinely dominating California high school athletics both on the track and the basketball court.

Throughout most of her athletic career including two Olympiads and several championship meets, Jones had been accused, either outright or by implication, of taking performance-enhancing drugs. These accusations began in high school in the early 1990s when she missed a random drug test and consequently was banned for four years from track and field competition. (Jones claimed she never received the letter notifying her of the required test; attorney Johnnie Cochran successfully got the four-year ban overturned.) Soon, it became apparent that Jones tended to train with both coaches and athletes who themselves were dogged by rumors and accusations surrounding performance- enhancing drugs. And yet until 2007, Jones routinely denied—in almost every way possible and in almost any venue where the question arose—ever being involved with performance enhancers in any way, shape, or form. She frequently said that she had never tested positive for performance-enhancing substances; in her autobiography, she blamed the 2002 breakup of her marriage to C.J. Hunter in part on the fact that Hunter had tested positive for steroids four times before the 2000 Olympics, tainting her own drug-free image.

They were married CJ Hunter who was her track and field coach from UNC from 1998 until 2002. They had a son, She was married to CJ Hunter, her former track coach at UNC, from 1998 to 2002. She had a son named Tim Montgomery Jr. with Tim Montgomery in 2003. In 2008, she married Obadele Thompson. Jr. with She was married to CJ Hunter, her former track coach at UNC, from 1998 to

2002. She had a son named Tim Montgomery Jr. with Tim Montgomery in 2003. In 2008, she married Obadele Thompson. in 2003. She got married in 2008. got married to Obadele Thompson.

Marion Jones Net Worth

Marion Jones is one of the richest Runner from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marion Jones 's net worth $500 Thousand. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She started playing sports when her dad who stayed at home passed away at the age of twelve.

She was awarded gold medals for the 100 meter as well as in the relay 4×100 meters during the 1997 World Championships in Athens.

Marion Lois Jones (born October 12, 1975), also known as Marion Jones- Thompson, is a Belizean-American former world champion track and field athlete and a former professional basketball player for Tulsa Shock in the WNBA. She won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, but was later stripped of her medals after admitting to steroid use. Jones did retain her 3 titles as world champion from 1997–1999.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Marion Jones height 5 ft 10 in Marion weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Marion Jones Dating?

According to our records, Marion Jones married to Obadele Thompson , C. J. Hunter. As of December 1, 2023, Marion Jones’s is not dating anyone.

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In the BALCO case, she had denied to federal agents her use of the steroid Tetrahydrogestrinone, known as “The Clear”, or “THG”, from 1999, but claimed she was given the impression she was taking a flaxseed oil supplement for two years while coach Trevor Graham supplied her with the substance. In a published letter, Jones said she had used steroids until she stopped training with Graham at the end of 2002. She said she lied when federal agents questioned her in 2003 because she panicked when they presented her with a sample of “The Clear”.

Facts & Trivia

Marion Ranked on the list of most popular Runner. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Marion Jones celebrates birthday on October 12 of every year.

In the run-up to the 2000 Olympics, Jones declared that she intended to win gold medals in all five of her competition events at Sydney. Jones’ husband, C.J. Hunter, had withdrawn from the shot-put competition for a knee injury, though he was allowed to keep his coaching credentials and attend the games to support his wife. However, just hours after Marion Jones won her first of the planned five golds, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Hunter had failed four pre-Olympic drug tests, testing positive each time for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone. Hunter was immediately suspended from taking any role at the Sydney games, and he was ordered to surrender his on- field coaching credentials. At a press conference where Hunter broke down in tears, he denied taking any performance-enhancing drugs, much less the easily detected nandrolone (which showed up in all four tests in amounts over 1000 times normal levels); Victor Conte of BALCO, who was regularly supplying “nutritional supplements” to athletes trained by Trevor Graham, blamed the test results on “an iron supplement” that contained nandrolone precursors and tied previous positive nandrolone tests from Jamaican sprinter Merlene Ottey and British sprinter Linford Christie to the same supplement. As late as 2004, Hunter was still denying the charges and attempting to gain access to the results to see if they could be analyzed further. Jones would later write in her autobiography, Marion Jones: Life in the Fast Lane, that Hunter’s positive drug tests hurt their marriage and her image as a drug-free athlete. The couple divorced in 2002.

Why was Marion Jones stripped of medals?

Jones pleaded guilty in 2008 to lying to federal investigators about her use of performance-enhancing drugs. The I.O.C. executive board stripped the gold medals of Jones and her teammates in the 4×400-meter relay in 2000, as well as the bronze medals in the 4×100-meter relay.

What has happened to Marion Jones?

Now 46 years old, Jones lives in a suburb north of Austin, Texas, where she runs her own business and is a personal trainer with Camp Gladiator , a workout program and movement headquartered in Austin, according to KXAN.

Where is CJ Hunter now?

Hunter, an Olympic shot putter who was suspended as part of what became the BALCO scandal, died Sunday at age 52 , according to the funeral home that is handling his private memorial service. A cause of death was not given.

What was Marion Jones fastest 100m?

DisciplinePerformanceDate
100 Metres| 10.65| 12 SEP 1998
200 Metres| 21.62| 11 SEP 1998
400 Metres| 49.59| 16 APR 2000
Long Jump| 7.31| 31 MAY 1998

Who got their Olympic medals taken away?

OlympicsAthleteEvent
1988 Summer Olympics| Kerrith Brown| Judo, Men’s 71 kg
1992 Summer Olympics| Ibragim Samadov| Weightlifting, Men’s 82.5 kg (X, Z)
2000 Summer Olympics| Ashot Danielyan| Weightlifting, Men’s +105 kg
Izabela Dragneva| Weightlifting, Women’s 48 kg