Jearl Miles Clark

Jearl Miles Clark is the sort of athlete I admire on principle. Holding the American record in the women's 800 m at 1:56.40 is a brutal benchmark, and doing it while also racing the 400 means living in the most punishing stretch of track, where speed and endurance fight each other. At 170 cm she was not built to overpower anyone, which makes the numbers feel earned rather than gifted. Coming out of Gainesville and Alabama A and M, she strikes me as a craftswoman who let the stopwatch argue on her behalf. That quiet, results-first toughness is exactly my kind of greatness.

Name (English)

Jearl Miles Clark

Name (Japanese)

ジール・マイルス・クラーク

Reading

じーる・まいるす・くらーく

Born

September 4, 1966 (age 59)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Horse

Origin

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Height

170 cm

Occupation

middle-distance runner / sprinter

High school

Buchholz High School

University

Alabama A & M University

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B9%EF%BC%9D%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF

Tags

• Florida
• middle-distance runner
• sprinter

Last updated

2026-06-02

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