BIOGRAPHY

Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist; 2008 Olympic Trials champion; two-time USA Outdoor champion ('05, '07); 2005 USA Indoor pentathlon champion; 2003 NCAA champion; 2004 NCAA Outdoor LJ champion; 2004 NCAA Indoor LJ and pentathlon champ

Fountain tied the American record in the women's pentathlon at the 2010 World Indoor Championships with her score of 4,753 points, finishing in fourth place. Fountain has personal bests in the 800m (2:21.02) and the shot put (14.06m/46-1.5). She had a season's best in the high jump (1.87m/6-1.5), finished the 60m hurdles in 8.20 and long jumped 6.46m/21-2.5...Fountain became the only American woman other than Jackie Joyner-Kersee ever to win an Olympic medal in the heptathlon, coming away with a silver-medal performance at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing with her total of 6,619 points. Initially she was the bronze medalist, but was moved up from third to second when original silver medalist Lyudmila Blonska tested positive for the substance methyltestosterone, her second doping offense. In the final event, the 800 meters, Fountain turned in a huge personal-best clocking 2:15.45 for 886 points, which clinched her placing. Fountain's time shattered her previous personal best of 2:27.69. Fountain dominated the heptathlon at the 2008 Olympic Trials and won in stunning fashion with a personal best 6,667 points. She was in the driver's seat of the heptathlon after day 1 of competition, with three personal bests, three records and three first-place event finishes in four events. The 27-year-old resident of Dayton, Ohio, got the Olympic Trials off with a bang in the first event of the meet, the women's heptathlon 100m hurdles. Her time of 12.65, worth 1,178 points on scoring tables, broke three records: American record, heptathlon 100m hurdles (12.69, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, 1988, Seoul); Olympic Trials record, heptathlon 100m hurdles (12.71, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, 1988, Indianapolis); and USA National Championship record, heptathlon 100m hurdles (12.77, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, 1991, NYC). Fountain cleared 1.81m/5-11.25 in the high jump for 991 points (tied for 2nd), threw a personal-best 13.67m/44-10.25 in the shot put (772 points, 1st) and ran another personal best, 23.31 (1048 points, +1.3 mps) in the 200m to win that events as well…Fountain won her second heptathlon title at the 2007 USA Outdoor Championships...Her mark in the shot put (12.69m/41-7.75 was a personal-best...won her first national crown as a professional in the heptathlon at the 2005 USA Outdoor Championships with a strong second-day performance, scoring 6,208 points total. In Day 2, the 2004 NCAA long jump champion leaped 6.25m/20-6.25 in the long jump (927), threw 46.05 in the javelin (784) and ran 2:16.88 in the 800 (867) to move from fourth after day one to first at the close of competition…Not only an NCAA heptathlon champion, Fountain is also an outstanding long jumper, triple jumper, high jumper and hurdler…credits her mother for introducing her to the sport at age 7. With Jackie Joyner-Kersee as her idol, Fountain says that in school she always wrote papers on her, or Wilma Rudolph. Because heptathlon was not offered in Pennsylvania high schools, she had to wait until college…in 2002, she won 5 NJCAA titles and had three runner-up finishes for Barton CC.