Hyleas Fountain

Hyleas Fountain (born January 14, 1981 in Columbus, Georgia) is an American heptathlete.

Fountain attended Central Dauphin East High School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and the University of Georgia. Fountain has won NCAA championships in both the heptathlon and long jump. She was under the coaching of Mr. Al Moten.

She finished twelfth at the 2005 World Championships and eighth at the 2006 World Indoor Championships.

In 2008 Fountain qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics by winning the U.S. Olympic Trials with a personal best score of 6667 points in the heptathlon. Fountain set personal bests in five of the seven heptathlon events at the Trials. [ [http://www.iaaf.org/WCE08/news/newsid=45517.html Fountain’s hot run of PBs takes her to a world leading 6667 - US Trials Heptathlon] ] Her personal best long jump is 6.88 metres.

At the Olympics themselves, she originally finished in the bronze medal position. However, after the silver medallist Lyudmila Blonska tested positive on her drug test, Fountain was elevated to the silver medal position.

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