Marion Jones

Marion Jones

Jones in 2000
Personal information
Born	(1975-10-12) October 12, 1975 (age 41) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	100 meters, 200 meters, long jump
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  United States Olympic Games Disqualified 2000 Sydney 100 m Disqualified 2000 Sydney 200 m Disqualified 2000 Sydney 4x400 m relay Disqualified 2000 Sydney 4x100 m relay Disqualified 2000 Sydney Long jump World Championships 1997 Athens 100 m 1997 Athens 4x100 m relay 1999 Seville 100 m 1999 Seville Long jump Disqualified 2001 Edmonton 100 m Disqualified 2001 Edmonton 200 m Disqualified 2001 Edmonton 4x100m relay Continental Cup 1998 Johannesburg 100 m 1998 Johannesburg 200 m Goodwill Games 1998 Uniondale 100 m 1998 Uniondale 200 m Disqualified 2001 Brisbane 100 m

Marion Jones

Personal information
Born	(1975-10-12) October 12, 1975 (age 41) Los Angeles, California
Listed height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Listed weight	150 lb (68 kg)
Career information
High school	Thousand Oaks (Thousand Oaks, California)
College	North Carolina (1993–1997)
WNBA draft	2003 / Round: 3 / Pick: 33rd overall
Selected by the Phoenix Mercury
Playing career	2010–2011
Position	Point guard
Number	20
Career history
2010–2011	Tulsa Shock

Marion Lois Jones (born October 12, 1975), also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is an 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 the titles after admitting to steroid use. Jones did retain her three gold medals as a world champion from 1997 and 1999.

At the time of her admission and subsequent guilty plea, Marion Jones was one of the most famous athletes to be linked to the BALCO scandal. The case against BALCO covered more than 20 top level athletes, including Jones's ex-husband, shot putter C.J. Hunter, and 100 m sprinter Tim Montgomery, the father of Jones's first child.

Marion Jones was born to African-American George Jones and his Belizean wife, Marion, 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 (running, pickup basketball games, and anything else her brother Albert was doing athletically) as an outlet for her grief, and by the age of 15 she was routinely dominating California high school athletics both on the tracks and the basketball courts.

Jones is a 1997 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While there, she met and began dating one of the track coaches, shot putter C.J. Hunter. Hunter voluntarily resigned his position at UNC to comply with the requirements of university rules prohibiting coach–athlete dating. Jones and Hunter were married October 3, 1998, and trained for the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics.

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