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DIANA FUHRMAN AT THE 1991 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS


OSCAR CHAPLIN III AT THE 2004 OLYMPIC TEAM TRIALS


HALL OF FAME


By Kevin Farley


During the last quadrennial, six people were permanently enshrined in the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame.


2015 CHERYL HAWORTH Three-time Olympian Cheryl Haworth stumbled into the sport of Weightlifting. She learned the lifts while training for softball in her childhood years. After finding her pas- sion in weightlifting, Haworth quickly rose through the ranks of the sport becoming National Junior Champion. From 1998- 2008, she won 11 straight senior national championships. She set every American record during her career in the women’s +75kg weight category, some that still stand today. She won a gold medal at the Winnipeg 1999 Pan American Games, a silver medal at the junior world champi- onships in 1999, a gold medal at the Bris- bane 2001 Goodwill Games, two junior world championships in 2001-02 and a bronze medal at the world champion- ships in 2005. Her crowning achievement was a bronze medal in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. The Games in Sydney were the first time women lifted. She represented Team USA at the Games in 2004 in Athens and 2008 in Beijing.


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Haworth is now an Olympic Weightlift- ing Specialist at a gym in Hong Kong.


2015 ROBIN BYRD-GOAD Robin Byrd- Goad is a pioneer of our sport. Participat- ing in the first Women’s World Champi- onships in 1987, Goad helped set the bar for future women weightlifters to succeed in our sport. Goad says she didn’t choose weightlifting, rather weightlifting chose her. Training under famed coach John Coffee, Goad said he believed in women’s weightlifting. Inspired by gymnast Nadia Comaneci’s stellar performance at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Goad started down a road that would see her Olympic dream realized. Throughout her stellar career, Goad set junior and senior


American Records and is the last Ameri- can woman to set a World Record with her 78kg snatch on April 1, 1994. Goad is a 10-time Senior National Champion and 1994 Senior World Champion. She won bronze at the Lahti World Championships in 1998, a gold medal at the 1999 Pan Am Games. She also earned the distinction of being the only woman to compete in the debut of women’s weightlifting at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney who was also at the first Women’s World Champi- onships in 1987. Married to former na- tional champion Dean, Goad stays busy training her three children: Sydney, Dean and Rubylyn.


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