Carol Cady
Carol Therese Cady (born June 6, 1962 in Los Alamos , New Mexico ) is a former American athlete . She competed in international championships in the shot put and discus throw .
Career
At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , Cady finished seventh with 17.23 meters. 1985 at the World Indoor Games in Paris - Bercy was eighth with 15.44 meters. In 1988 she competed in the discus throw at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and finished eleventh with 63.42 meters. In 1985 and 1986 Cady was the US discus champion.
The 1.70 m tall Cady was also active in weightlifting, she was 1985, 1986 and 1989 US light heavyweight champion and 1988 heavyweight champion. The weight limit between the two classes was 82.5 kg in the 1980s.
World records in hammer throw
During Cady's career, the women's hammer throw has not been used in championships. Cady was one of the pioneers in this discipline and set several unofficial world records:
- 41.99m - April 10, 1982 - Stanford
- 48.13 m - Nov. 27, 1982 - Stanford
- 53.65 m - April 28, 1984 - Berkeley
- 57.51m - May 5, 1984 - Berkeley
- 58.52 m - June 11, 1988 - Los Gatos
- 58.94 m - July 10, 1988 - Los Gatos
Top performances
- Ball: 17.70 m (1986)
- Discus: 66.10 m (1986)
- Hammer: 58.94 m (1988)
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics . Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ US Weightlifting Championships ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ World records in hammer throw
- ↑ Thrower statistics ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cady, Carol |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cady, Carol Therese (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Alamos , New Mexico , USA |