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Chaunte Lowe’s high jump life
- Updated: May 27, 2016
Diamond League
Following the first high jump competition of this year’s Diamond League series, which took place in Shanghai and was won by Levern Spencer of St Lucia with 1.94m, the contest moves on to Eugene. On Saturday (May 28) the field includes world-leader with 1.96m, USA’s Chaunte Lowe.
Lowe, now 32, is seeking selection for her fourth successive Olympics. She holds the US record both outdoors, with a height of 2.05m, and indoors, with a height of 2.02m. Her best major championship performance was silver in the 2005 World Championships. Indoors she has won gold in Istanbul in 2012 and bronze in Doha in 2010.
How, I wondered, do you become a high jumper? In Lowe’s case, it goes back a long way.
“When I was a kid there was a song by Kris Kross called ‘Jump’,” she said. “I was in the house with my sisters – this was when I was in elementary school – and my head was almost touching the ceiling. I thought, ‘Wow, I can jump really high!’ From that time on I was in love with track and field athletics and I found out that I was particularly good in the jumps. I started doing the long jump and by my freshman year in high school I started doing the high jump.”
Her achievements are good by any standards but amazing when you consider that she has also had three children during her career. She told me: “If competing with one daughter was hard, life with two [and now three] kids was almost impossible. That year I quit track every …
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