Kenny Harrison<\/strong><\/h2>\nLike any good Midwestern region, there are quite a few athletes who make up the history of Brookfield, Wisconsin. And while those other athletes made great contributions to football, wrestling, and hockey, one athlete stands apart from the rest. Kenny Harrison was a track and field star, specializing in the triple jump and winning the gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics and earning the title of the third greatest triple jumper in history. He also brought home the gold in the 1991 World Championship held in Tokyo, Japan. His personal best Triple Jump was an astounding 59 feet, 4 inches. No wonder he\u2019s an international star!<\/p>\n
Who knows? Maybe after moving here to Brookfield, Wisconsin, you could be the next big local celebrity for the history books as well! And if not, we\u2019d love to have you here anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While we\u2019re proud of all of our citizens here in Brookfield, Wisconsin, some residents carry a little more star power than others. It\u2019s always exciting to hear that someone came from our humble town and made a name for themselves in one way or another. Whether famous or infamous, we\u2019re just happy that part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Most famous people to live in Brookfield, WI|","_seopress_titles_desc":"Discover the celebrities and historical figures that have called Brookfield, WI, home. From Al Capone to Kenny Harrison, find out who made their mark in the Badger State","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoteljmsantapola.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoteljmsantapola.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoteljmsantapola.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoteljmsantapola.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoteljmsantapola.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoteljmsantapola.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoteljmsantapola.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoteljmsantapola.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoteljmsantapola.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoteljmsantapola.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}