Chaunté Lowe

Chaunté Lowe

Chaunté Lowe in Doha 2010
Personal information
Birth name Chaunté Howard
Nationality  United States
Born January 12, 1984
Templeton, California
Residence Decatur, Georgia
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight 131 lb (59 kg)
Sport
Sport Track and field
Event(s) High jump, long jump
College team Georgia Tech
Club Nike
Coached by Nat Page
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) High jump: 2.05 m (Des Moines, 2010)
High jump (indoor): 2.02 m (Albuquerque, 2012)

Chaunté Lowe (née Howard) (born January 12, 1984) is an American athlete, who competes in the high jump and participated in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. She is the American record holder in the women's high jump, both outdoors, with a height of 2.05 m, and indoors, with a height of 2.02 m.

Career

Early career

Lowe graduated from John W. North High School in Riverside, California, where she won the National Scholastic Indoor Championships twice.[1][2] She won the 2001 CIF California State Meet in the high jump[3] and finished second in 2002 in the high jump, long jump and triple jump,[4] leading her team to the state team championships.[5] Among her first successes was a high jump bronze medal at the 2003 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships.[6]

2004 Summer Olympics

Lowe jumped 1.85 m in the qualifying round of the women's high jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics and did not reach the final.[7]

2005 IAAF World Championships

In the qualifying round, Lowe tied with Iryna Mykhalchenko for second in her group with a height of 1.93 m.[8] In the final, Lowe placed second behind Kajsa Bergqvist, who jumped 2.02 m, with a height of 2.00 m.[9]

2008 Summer Olympics

Lowe jumped 1.93 m in the qualifying round at the 2008 Summer Olympics to reach the final.[10] She placed sixth in the high jump final with a height of 1.99 m.[11]

2009-2010

Competing in 2009, she became the national champion with a clearance of 1.95 m at the 2009 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, beating Amy Acuff to the title on countback. This gained her qualification into the 2009 World Championships in Athletics: she reached the 2009 high jump final, but she could not repeat her past medal performance and finished in seventh place. She closed the year with a fourth place finish at the last edition of the World Athletics Final.

Lowe improved her indoor best with a jump of 1.98 m at the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships in 2010. She attempted to tie with Tisha Waller's record, but just knocked the bar at the last moment.[12] At the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, she won a bronze medal in the high jump with a clearance of 1.98 m.

On May 30, 2010, Lowe broke Louise Ritter's American record of 2.03 m set in 1988 with a clearance of 2.04 m in Cottbus, Germany.[13] Less than a month later, On June 26, 2010, Lowe improved her record with a clearance of 2.05 m in Des Moines, IA.[14]

Olympic Year of 2012

Lowe celebrating her win at the 2012 World Indoor Championships.

Lowe capped a successful 2012 Indoor season by winning the USA Indoor Championship at Albuquerque, NM, on February 26, with a new national record of 2.02m (6' 7.50"): That broke the American indoor, and Championship meet, mark of 2.01 (6' 7.25") established at the 1998 USA Indoor Championship meet by Tisha Waller. Lowe won the competition as the only jumper to clear 1.93 (6'4"), then went on to clear 1.96, 1.99, scaled 2.02 on her third attempt, and made three attempts at 2.04.[15] She set a meet record at the Drake Relays in April with a jump of 1.98 m.[16] On March 10, she topped this successful indoor season by becoming World Indoor Champion at the IAAF World Indoor Championships on in Istanbul being the only one to clear 1.98 m.

Personal

She took a year off from competition in 2007 and gave birth to her daughter, Jasmine. Another daughter was born in April 2011.[17] She is married to Mario Lowe, a triple jumper.[18] She graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2008.

She is currently attending Western Governors University for her Master's Degree.

Personal bests

Event Best (m) Venue Date
High jump (outdoor) 2.05 AR, NR Des Moines, Iowa June 26, 2010
High jump (indoor) 2.02 AR, NR Albuquerque, New Mexico February 26, 2012

Key: AR = Area record, NR = National record

See also

References

  1. ↑ "National Scholastic results". National Scholastic Sports Foundation. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  2. ↑ "National Scholastic results". National Scholastic Sports Foundation. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  3. ↑ "2001 CIF California State Meet results". DyeStat. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  4. ↑ "2002 CIF California State Meet results". DyeStat. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  5. ↑ "California 2002 Outdoor State Meet". DyeStat. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  6. ↑ Pan American Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-02-28.
  7. ↑ "Athletics at the 2004 Athina Summer Games: Women's High Jump Qualifying Round". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  8. ↑ "2005 IAAF World Championships: Women's High Jump Qualifying Round" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  9. ↑ "2005 IAAF World Championships: Women's High Jump Final" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  10. ↑ "Athletics at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games: Women's High Jump Qualifying Round". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  11. ↑ "Athletics at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games: Women's High Jump Final Round". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  12. ↑ Lee, Kirby (2010-02-28). High jumpers Lowe and Williams impress in Albuquerque – USA Indoor Champs, day 1. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-02-28.
  13. ↑ "2.04m US High Jump record for Lowe in Cottbus". IAAF. May 31, 2010.
  14. ↑ "Lowe sets U.S record in high jump". USATF. 2010-06-26. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  15. ↑ USTAF Indoor Championships, 26 February 2012; "Women's High Jump, Results"; accessed 26 FEB 2012.
  16. ↑ Dunaway, Jim (2012-04-29). Spearmon, Lowe and Wilson break meet records at Drake Relays. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-05-03.
  17. ↑ Athletics Weekly: Chaunte Lowe set to make return post-childbirth at US Championships, June,11 20111
  18. ↑ Lee, Kirby (2008-07-05). Howard shows she's ready. The Press Enterprise. Retrieved on 2010-02-28.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
Croatia Blanka Vlašić		 Women's high jump best year performance
2010
(tied with Vlašić) 		Succeeded by
Russia Anna Chicherova