Kym Carter
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
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[edit]IAAF World Indoor Championships
[edit]- 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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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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