Tara Cunningham
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| Born | May 10, 1972 Del Rio, Texas, USA |
| Height | 5 ft 1⁄2 in (154 cm) |
| Weight | 106 lb (48 kg) |
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| Country |  United States |
| Sport | Weightlifting |
Tara Nott-Cunningham (born Tara Nott, May 10, 1972) is an American former Olympic weightlifter who competed for the United States in both the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. She is the only athlete to have trained for three different sports at the United States Olympic Training Center (gymnastics, soccer, and weightlifting).
Born in Del Rio, Texas, Tara Nott grew up in Stilwell, Kansas.[1] Her coaches were Mike Gattone and Bob Morris. She attended Blue Valley Middle and High Schools in Stilwell, KS and Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO. She is married to free style wrestler Casey Cunningham.
In 2000, she became the first US weightlifter to win Olympic gold since Chuck Vinci in 1960, and the first US female weightlifter ever to win Olympic gold. The original gold medal winner, Bulgaria's Izabela Dragneva, was stripped of her gold after testing positive for furosemide, and the gold was awarded to Nott who initially placed second.[2]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she ranked 10th in the 48 kg category.[3][4]
She was inducted into the International Weightlifting Hall of Fame in 2015.[5]
Weightlifting achievements
[edit]- Senior National Champion (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002–2004)
- World Championships Team Member (1997–1999, 2003, 2004)
- Pan Am Games Champion (1999, 2003)
- Olympic Champion (2000)
- Olympic Games team member (2004)
- Multiple All-Time Senior American record holder in snatch, clean and jerk, and total
Notes and references
[edit]- ^ Tara Nott; Physical Mag; June 2001. Archived 2014-02-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ McCallum, Jack (October 2, 2000). "American Beauties". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on December 3, 2012. Retrieved December 13, 2008.
- ^ "CUNNINGHAM Tara". International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on May 27, 2011.
- ^ McCallum, Jack (August 23, 2004). "Uplifting Farewell". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved December 13, 2008.
- ^ "Hall of Fame member and gold medalist Tara Nott celebrates 45th birthday!". www.iwf.net. May 11, 2017.
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