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 of athletic parents. Initially she played softball as a child , but soon became interested in weightlifting and began to train at the Anderson / Cohen Weightlifting Center in Savannah at the age of 13 with the support of her parents. At the age of 15 she won her first USA championship in the weight class over 75 kg. With her trainer Michael Cohen, who himself was an Olympic athlete in weightlifting, she trained five times a week and from 1999 onwards she always qualified for participation in the Olympic Games or World Championships. Already at the age of 17 she won the bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the Olympic Games in Sydney , which she followed in 2005 with a bronze medal at the World Championships in Doha . At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens she reached 6th place with a duel of 280 kg and in 2008 in Beijing with 259 kg.

Chery Haworth still lives in Savannah and is a student at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

International successes / all-around

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, S = heavyweight, over 75 kg body weight)

• 1999, 1st place , PanAm Games in Winnipeg , S, ahead of María Isabel Urrutia , Colombia and Carmenza Delgado, Colombia;
• 1999, 2nd place , Junior World Championships in Savannah, S, with 250 kg, behind Agata Wróbel , Poland , 265 kg and in front of Mun Kyung-Ae, Korea , 227.5 kg;
• 1999, 4th place , World Championships in Athens , S, with 252.5 kg, behind Meiyuan Ding , People's Republic of China , 285 kg, Wrobel, 280 kg and Bakisu Musa, Nigeria , 252.5 kg;
• 2000, 2nd place , Junior World Championships in Prague , S, with 252.5 kg, behind Wróbel, 290 kg and in front of Viktoria Varga, Hungary , 227.5 kg;
• 2000, bronze medal , OS in Sydney , S, with 270 kg, behind Meiyuan Ding , 300 kg and Wrobel, 295 kg;
• 2001, 1st place , Junior World Championships in Thessaloniki , S, with 275 kg, ahead of Varga, 260 kg and Jang Mi-Ran , South Korea, 250 kg;
• 2001, 1st place , Goodwill Games in Brisbane , S, with 282.5 kg, ahead of Albina Khomitsch , Russia , 267.5 kg and Varga, 260 kg;
• 2002, 4th place , World Championships 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, with 280 kg, winner: Tang Gonghong, 305 kg ahead of Mi-Ran Jang, 302.5 kg;
• 2005, 1st place , PanAm Championships, Shreveport / USA , over 75 kg body weight with 287 kg, ahead of Susanne Dandenault, Canada , 225 kg and Olivia Salinas, Mexico , 215 kg;
• 2005, 3rd place , World Championships in Doha , S, with 287 kg and 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, ahead of 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, with 259 kg, winner: Mi-ran Jang (Korea), 326 kg ahead of Olha Korobka (Ukraine), 277 kg

USA championships

• 1998, 1st place, S, with 222.5 kg, ahead of Stacy Ketchum, 207.5 kg and Lisa Brien, 200 kg;
• 1999, 1st place, S, with 245 kg, before. Rachel Hearn, 210 kg and Brien, 210 kg;
• 2000, 1st place, S, with 260 kg, ahead of Emmy Vargas, 220 kg and Hearn, 212.5 kg;
• 2001, 1st place, S, with 270 kg, ahead of Hearn, 220 kg and Inga De Nunzio, 187.5 kg;
• 2002, 1st place, S, with 270 kg, ahead of Hearn, 222.5 kg and De Nunzio, 195 kg;
• 2003, 1st place, S, with 270 kg, ahead of Hearn, 212.5 kg and Erin Doyle, 192.5 kg;
• 2004, 1st place, S, with 267.5 kg, ahead of Hearn, 215 kg and De Nunzio, 207.5 kg;
• 2005, 1st place, S, with 275 kg, ahead of Hearn, 220 kg and Vargas, 217.5 kg

Web links

• Haworth in an attempt to push over 130 kg
• Haworth at the 1999 World Cup