Five world champions, including 1986 winner Jackie...

Five world champions, including 1986 winner Jackie Joyner-Kersee, have been nominated for the Jesse Owens Award, given each year by The Athletics Congress to the nation’s top track and field performer.

Other nominees for the award, to be presented at TAC’s annual convention in Honolulu in December, are long jumper-triple jumper Mike Conley, hurdlers Greg Foster and Edwin Moses and sprinter-long jumper Carl Lewis.

Joyner-Kersee, now an assistant women’s basketball coach at UCLA, won last year’s award after setting a world record in the heptathlon. She tied the world long jump record this year and later won world outdoor championships in the long jump and the heptathlon.