Sharon Day
Sharon Day-Monroe at the 2015 Sam Adams Multi-Event Meet at Westmont College in Montecito, California
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| Birth name | Sharon Day-Monroe | ||||||||||||||||||
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June 9, 1985 Costa Mesa, California |
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| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
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 United States
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Heptathlon | ||||||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Jack Hoyt | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | 2008, 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Sharon Day-Monroe (born June 9, 1985) is an American heptathlete and high jumper. She is the 2011, 2013, and 2014 national heptathlon champion, She is also the 2012-2015 national indoor pentathlon champion. She is the first athlete to win four consecutive national championships in the pentathlon. As a junior athlete, she was the 2003 Pan American Junior champion in the high jump and the following year won the bronze medal at the World Junior Championships.
She has qualified for multiple international championships. At the 2008 Olympics she high jumped 1.85 to finish 24th in qualifying. At the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin she competed in both the high jump, finishing 17th and the heptathlon finishing 10th as the top American finisher. In subsequent heptathlons, she finished 18th at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea. She finished 16 at the 2012 Olympics in London. At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow she finished 6th.
Sharon Day originally excelled in the high jump. While at Costa Mesa High School she was the CIF California State Meet champion two years in a row, and was coached in the high jump by her father, Eugene Day. Day's mother, Yolanda Day, was an elite high jumper, and her sister, Jasmin Day, competed in the high jump for the University of Arizona. While winning during her junior year, she defeated senior Chaunte Howard, who has gone on to become the current American record holder.
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