Kym Carter

Lelia Kym Carter Begel (born March 12, 1964 in Inglewood, California), also known as Kym Carter, is a former heptathlete from the United States, who represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There she finished in eleventh place.

Kym is the executive director of the Carl Lewis Foundation and a board member of Sound Body Sound Mind, a program to increase physical fitness in high schools. She is the mother of boy–girl twins.

Education

Corporate sponsors

IAAF World Indoor Championships

Silver medal in the pentathlon at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Bronze medal in the pentathlon at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships

Notable Achievements

In 1993, she earned her first World Ranking (No. 8) in the heptathlon and ended the season ranked number 1. It was the first time since 1985 that another American outranked Jackie Joyner-Kersee in the multi except for 1989 when Joyner-Kersee didn't compete.

In 1982, while at Wichita East High School (the same high school as national record holder in the mile, Jim Ryun, she set the NFHS national high school record in the high jump at 6' 2 1/4". The record lasted for three years.^[1]

References

↑ National High School Record Book Archived September 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.

Kym Carter profile at USATF
Sound Body Sound Mind profile

US National Championship winners in women's pentathlon and heptathlon

1950–1979 Amateur Athletic Union	1950–4: Stanisława Walasiewicz 1955–6: Barbara Mueller 1957–9: Ann Roniger 1960: Jo Ann Terry 1961–7: Pat Daniels 1968: Chi Cheng (TPE) 1969: Jan Glotzer 1970: Pat Daniels 1971: Marilyn King 1972–3: Jane Frederick 1974: Mitzi McMillan 1975–6: Jane Frederick 1977: Linda Cornelius 1978: Modupe Oshikoya (NGR) 1979: Jane Frederick

1980–1992 The Athletics Congress	1980: Themis Zambrzycki (BRA) 1981: Jane Frederick 1982: Jackie Joyner 1983: Jane Frederick 1984: Cindy Greiner 1985–6: Jane Frederick 1987: Jackie Joyner-Kersee 1988: Sheila Tarr 1989: Jolanda Jones 1990: Cindy Greiner 1991–2: Jackie Joyner-Kersee

1993-onwards USA Track & Field	1993: Jackie Joyner-Kersee 1994: Kym Carter 1995: Jackie Joyner-Kersee 1996–8: Kelly Blair LaBounty 1999: Shelia Burrell 2000–1: DeDee Nathan 2002–4: Shelia Burrell 2005: Hyleas Fountain 2006: GiGi Johnson 2007–8: Hyleas Fountain 2009: Diana Pickler 2010: Hyleas Fountain 2011: Sharon Day-Monroe 2012: Hyleas Fountain 2013-4: Sharon Day-Monroe 2015: Barbara Nwaba

Notes	Held as a women's pentathlon from 1950 to 1980 Since 1992 the championships incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held as a discrete event.

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