Chaunté Lowe

Chaunte Lowe ( Chaunte LaTasha Lowe, born Howard, born January 12, 1984 in Templeton, California) is an American high jumper.

In 2004, she retired in qualifying at the Olympic Games in Athens.

The following year, they improved at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 her personal best to 2.00 m and won the silver medal behind Kajsa Bergqvist. In 2006 she was both indoors as well as outdoors U.S. champion and came at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow to eighth place.

After a maternity leave, she returned in 2008 back to the competition scene and qualified by a victory at the U.S. elimination fights for the Beijing Olympics, where they finished sixth. In 2009 she was again U.S. champion and seventh at the World Championships in Berlin.

In 2010 she won bronze at the World Indoor Championships in Doha and presented at the 21st International Lusatian athletics meeting with 2,04 m an event record. At the U.S. Championships she won not only the title again in the high jump, but was also second in the long jump.

2012, it increased in the hall their personal best to 2.02 meters and won at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul. At the Olympic Games in London, she was sixth.

Chaunte Lowe is 1,75 m tall and weighs 59 kg. She is coached by Nat Page and starts for Nike. On August 21, 2005, she married the triple jumper Mario Lowe. The following year, she completed her studies in economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. On 30 July 2007 she brought a daughter into the world.

Personal best

• High Jump: 2.05m 26 June, 2010, Des Moines Hall: 2,02 m 26 February, 2012, Albuquerque

• Hall: 6.39 m 26 February, 2012, Albuquerque