Sibby Flowers

Sibby Flowers (* 1963 in Carrollton , Georgia as Sibby Harris ) is a former American weightlifter .

Life

Sibby Flowers grew up in Carrollton. She was athletic and did gymnastics and athletics in high school . When weightlifting became popular for women in the mid-1980s , she devoted herself to the sport, went to Savannah and trained with trainer John Coffee. At the first world championships for women in Daytona Beach , she won a bronze medal in the all-around competition in the class up to 44 kg body weight. In the following years she started very successfully at the World Championships. But she was not granted a title win.

Sibby Flowers worked as a trainer after her active sports career and currently lives in Knoxville.

International success

(WM = World Championship, KG = body weight)

• 1987, 3rd place , World Championships in Daytona Beach , up to 44 kg body weight;
• 1989, 7th place , World Championships in Manchester , up to 44 kg body weight, with 127.5 kg, winner: Xing Fen, China, 165 kg ahead of N. Kunjarani Devi , India , 132.5 kg;
• 1990, 4th place , World Championships in Sarajevo , up to 44 kg body weight, with 135 kg, behind Xiangmei Wu, China, 152.5 kg, Saito Satomi, Japan , 140 kg and Bastiah Said, Indonesia , 135 kg;
• 1991, 3rd place , World Championship in Donaueschingen , up to 44 kg body weight, with 140 kg, behind Xing Fen, 162.5 kg and Kunjarani Devi, 142.5 kg;
• 1992, 3rd place , World Championships in Varna , up to 44 kg body weight, with 140 kg;
• 1993, 5th place , World Championships in Melbourne , up to 46 kg body weight, with 145 kg, winner: Chu Nan-Mei , Taiwan , 152.5 kg ahead of Yu Shin-Fen, Taiwan, 147.5 kg;
• 1994, 7th place , World Championships in Istanbul , up to 46 kg body weight, with 150 kg, winner: Yun Yanhong, China, 180 kg ahead of Kunjarani Devi, 167.5 kg;
• 1995, 7th place , World Championships in Guangzhou , up to 46 kg KG, with 147.5 kg

Medals individual disciplines

• World Cup bronze medals: 1991, push, 80 kg - 1992, tear, 62.5 kg

USA championships

• 1987, 1st place, up to 44 kg body weight, with 105 kg;
• 1988, 1st place, up to 44 kg body weight, with 117.5 kg;
• 1989, 1st place, up to 48 kg body weight, with 107.5 kg;
• 1990, 1st place, up to 44 kg body weight, with 127.5 kg;
• 1992, 1st place, up to 44 kg body weight, with 145 kg;
• 1993, 1st place, up to 46 kg body weight, with 142.5 kg;
• 1994, 1st place, up to 46 kg body weight, with 140 kg;
• 1995, 1st place, up to 46 kg body weight, with 145 kg;
• 1996, 1st place, up to 46 kg body weight, with 140 kg

Web links

• weightliftingexchange.com ( Memento from March 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• sport-komplett.de