Rio de Janeiro (RWH) Tianna Bartoletta from USA won the gold medal in long jump at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The 30-years-old was brakewoman in the US-bobsleigh team in the 2012/2013 season. Together with pilot Elana Meyers Taylor she finished third at the kick-off World Cup in Lake Placid (USA). 2012 in London, Tianna Bartoletta – still under her birth name Madison then - won Olympic Gold with the US sprint relay. Also in Rio, the 2005 long jump World Champion will compete in the relay.
Jazmin Sawyers (GBR), silver medallist 2012 at the Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, at the Rio Olympics finished eighth in long jump. ©RWH2016

Tianna Bartoletta, Photo: USABS