Cheryl Haworth
Cheryl Haworth ( born April 18, 1983 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American weightlifter.
Career
Cheryl Haworth grew up in Savannah as a child sporting parents. First, she played as a child softball, but soon became interested in also for the weight lifting and started with the support of their parents to train in Savannah age of 13 in Anderson / Cohen Weightlifting Center. At 15 she won her first U.S. Championship in the weight category over 75 kg body weight. With their coach Michael Cohen, who was himself Olympian in weightlifting, she trained in the following period five times a week and qualified in 1999 always for participation in the Olympic Games or World Championships. Only 17 years old, she won the bronze medal in the heavyweight division, which made them follow a bronze medal at the World Championships in Doha in 2005 at the Olympic Games in Sydney. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, it reached 280 kg duel power and in Beijing in 2008 with 259 kg respectively the 6th Place.
Chery Haworth still lives in Savannah and is a student at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
International success / Mehrkampf
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Cup, S = Heavy weight over 75 kg body weight)
- 2000, 2nd place, Junior Women 's World Cup in Prague, S, with 252.5 kg, behind Wróbel, 290 kg, and before Viktoria Varga, Hungary, 227.5 kg;
- 2000, bronze medal, OS in Sydney, S, 270 kg behind Meiyuan thing, 300 kg and Wrobel, 295 kg;
- 2001 1st place, Junior World Championships in Thessaloniki, S, 275 kg before Varga, 260 kg, and Jang Mi- Ran, South Korea, 250 kg;
- 2001 1st place, Goodwill Games in Brisbane, S, with 282.5 kg, before Albina Khomitsch, Russia, 267.5 kg and Varga, 260 kg;
- 2002 4th place World Cup in Warsaw, S, with 277.5 kg, behind Wrobel, 287.5 kg, Khomitsch, 282.5 kg and Tang Gonghong, 277.5 kg,
- 2004, 6th place, S, OS in Athens, S, 280 kg Champion: Tang Gonghong, 305 kg, ahead of Mi- Ran Jang, 302.5 kg;
- 2005, 1st Place, Pan Am Championships, Shreveport / USA, over 75 kg body weight of 287 kg before Susanne Dandenault, Canada, 225 kg, and Olivia Salinas, Mexico, 215 kg;
- 2005, 3rd place, World Cup in Doha, S, 287 kg 142.63 kg body weight behind Mi- Ran Jang, 300 kg and Mu Shuangshuang, China 300 kg;
- 2006 1st place, PanAm Games, Guatemala City, S, with 269 kg, before Nieve, Ecuador, 253 kg, and Dimas, ESA, 244 kg
- 2007 12th Place, S, Royal World Weightlifting Championships, with 250 kg
- 2008, 6th Place, S, OS in Beijing, S, 259- kg winner: Mi -ran Jang (Korea ), 326 kg, ahead of Olha Korobka (Ukraine ), 277 kg