{"id":311780,"date":"2026-06-18T14:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311780\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:02:36","slug":"oviedo-olympic-medalist-jenny-simpson-collapses-after-medical-episode-at-event-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311780\/","title":{"rendered":"Oviedo Olympic medalist Jenny Simpson collapses after medical episode at event \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Olympic bronze medalist<\/a> and world champion 1,500-meter runner Jenny Simpson collapsed after suffering a medical episode while pacing a mile group at an event in Raleigh on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Simpson, who starred at Oviedo High School as Jenny Barringer, underwent CPR at the track and an automated external defibrillator was also used before taking her to the hospital. LetsRun.com was the first to report the medical emergency.<\/p>\n

While at Oviedo, she was an eight-time FHSAA state champion, earning three titles in cross country and five in track. She won four NCAA championships at the University of Colorado.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old Simpson<\/a> was taking part in a community track event hosted by Sir Walter Running, with runners of all levels encouraged to attend. The event featured a chance to meet Simpson.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are incredibly grateful to the individuals who responded immediately, as well as EMS and the medical professionals who handled the situation with such care, urgency, and professionalism,\u201d the \u201cSir Walter Running Team\u201d wrote on Instagram on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The statement added that \u201cJenny is receiving excellent medical care, and our thoughts are with her and her family during this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simpson won the bronze medal in the 1,500 meters at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. She also won the 1,500 at the 2011 world championships, along with silver medals in 2013 and 2017.<\/p>\n

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AP sports: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Olympic bronze medalist and world champion 1,500-meter runner Jenny Simpson collapsed after suffering a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[53840,139,141,140,110],"class_list":["post-311780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-olympics","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}