Kym Carter
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Born | Lelia Kym Carter Begel March 12, 1964 Inglewood, California |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Heptathlete |
Lelia Kym Carter Begel (born March 12, 1964, in Inglewood, California), also known as Kym Carter, is a former heptathlete from the United States, representing her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There she finished in eleventh place.
Carter is the Carl Lewis Foundation's executive director and a board member of Sound Body Sound Mind, a program to increase physical fitness in high schools.[citation needed] She is the mother of twins.[citation needed]
Education
- Wichita High School East, class of 1982
- University of Houston
- Louisiana State University
Corporate sponsors
- Nike, Inc.
- Reebok
IAAF World Indoor Championships
- Silver medal in the pentathlon at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships
- Bronze medal in the pentathlon at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Notable achievements
In 1993, she earned her first World Ranking (No. 8) in the heptathlon and ended the season ranked number 1. It was the first time since 1985 that another American outranked Jackie Joyner-Kersee in the multi except for 1989 when Joyner-Kersee didn't compete.
In 1982, while at Wichita East High School (the same high school as national record holder in the mile, Jim Ryun, she set the NFHS national high school record in the high jump at 6' 2 1/4". The record lasted for three years.[1]
References
- Citations
- ^ National High School Record Book Archived September 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- Sources
- Kym Carter profile at USATF
- Sound Body Sound Mind profile
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Amateur Athletic Union
- 1950–4: Stanisława Walasiewicz
- 1955–6: Barbara Mueller
- 1957–9: Ann Roniger
- 1960: Jo Ann Terry
- 1961–7: Pat Daniels
- 1968: Chi Cheng (TPE)
- 1969: Jan Glotzer
- 1970: Pat Daniels
- 1971: Marilyn King
- 1972–3: Jane Frederick
- 1974: Mitzi McMillan
- 1975–6: Jane Frederick
- 1977: Linda Cornelius
- 1978: Modupe Oshikoya (NGR)
- 1979: Jane Frederick
The Athletics Congress
- 1980: Themis Zambrzycki (BRA)
- 1981: Jane Frederick
- 1982: Jackie Joyner
- 1983: Jane Frederick
- 1984: Cindy Greiner
- 1985–6: Jane Frederick
- 1987: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- 1988: Sheila Tarr
- 1989: Jolanda Jones
- 1990: Cindy Greiner
- 1991–2: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
USA Track & Field
- 1993: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- 1994: Kym Carter
- 1995: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- 1996–8: Kelly Blair LaBounty
- 1999: Shelia Burrell
- 2000–1: DeDee Nathan
- 2002–4: Shelia Burrell
- 2005: Hyleas Fountain
- 2006: GiGi Johnson
- 2007–8: Hyleas Fountain
- 2009: Diana Pickler
- 2010: Hyleas Fountain
- 2011: Sharon Day-Monroe
- 2012: Hyleas Fountain
- 2013–4: Sharon Day-Monroe
- 2015–6: Barbara Nwaba
- 2017: Kendell Williams
- 2018–19: Erica Bougard
- 20212020 OT: Annie Kunz
- 2022: Anna Hall
- Held as a women's pentathlon from 1950 to 1980
- Since 1992 the championships incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held as a discrete event.
- 2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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