Curt White

{{Short description|American weightlifter (born 1962)}}

{{other people|Curtis White}}

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Curt White (born 1962) is a former Olympic weightlifter for the United States in the 1988 Summer Olympics. He is a chiropractor in Mooresville, North Carolina.

Education

He obtained his degree from Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois and also graduated from Logan College of Chiropractic in St. Louis, Missouri in 1988.{{cite web|title=Mooresville Chiroractor – Neck Pain – Mooresville|url=http://www.whitechiropractic.info/about.html|publisher=White Chiropractic|accessdate=4 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713131729/http://www.whitechiropractic.info/about.html|archive-date=13 July 2013|url-status=dead}}

Olympics

White was a member of the 1988 Olympic weightlifting team and participated in Olympic weightlifting for over 20 years. Throughout his time as an Olympic weightlifter, he held and still holds several national records. White was inducted into the US Olympic Weightlifting Hall of Fame in 1998.

Weightlifting achievements

  • Olympic Games team member (1988){{Cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wh/curt-white-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418103839/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wh/curt-white-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Curt White Bio, Stats, and Results - Olympics |publisher=Sports-Reference.com |accessdate=25 November 2015}}{{Cite news |author=Ward, Don |title=Coach selects squad |newspaper=Boca Raton News |date=17 July 1988 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1291&dat=19880717&id=cChUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=q40DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3499,4208780&hl=en |accessdate=25 November 2015}}
  • Senior national champion (1977, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, and 1988)
  • All-time senior American record holder in clean and jerk and total
  • All-time junior American record holder in snatch, clean and jerk, and total
  • Youngest senior national champion age 14, 114 lbs. class*

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