Yolanda Henry

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Yolanda Henry (born December 2, 1964) is a retired American track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump. [1] She represented her country at one outdoor and four indoor World Championships. In addition she won the silver at the 1990 Goodwill Games.

Her personal bests in the event are 2.00 metres outdoors (Seville 1990) and 1.96 metres indoors (New York 1991).

International competitions

YearCompetitionVenuePositionNotes
Representing the Flag of the United States.svg  United States
1989 World Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary 9th 1.91 m
Universiade Duisburg, West Germany 4th 1.88 m
1990 Goodwill Games Seattle, United States 2nd 1.92 m
1991 World Indoor Championships Seville, Spain 4th 1.91 m
Universiade Sheffield, United Kingdom 8th 1.84 m
World Championships Tokyo, Japan 17th (q) 1.83 m
1993 World Indoor Championships Toronto, Canada 22nd (q) 1.79 m
1995 World Indoor Championships Barcelona, Spain 12th (q) 1.90 m 1

1No mark in the final

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