Hampton Morris
{{Short description|American weightlifter (born 2004)}}
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| full_name = Hampton Miller Morris
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|2004|2|17}}
| birth_place = Marietta, Georgia, U.S.
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| education = Alan C. Pope High School
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| country = United States
| sport = Weightlifting
| weight_class = 61 kg
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| coach = Tripp Morris
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{{Medal|Sport| Men's weightlifting }}
{{Medal|Country| {{USA}} }}
{{Medal|Competition| Olympic Games }}
{{Medal|Bronze| 2024 Paris | 61 kg }}
{{Medal|Competition| IWF World Cup }}
{{Medal|Silver| 2024 Phuket | 61 kg }}
{{Medal|Competition| Pan American Championships }}
{{Medal|Gold| 2021 Guayaquil | 61 kg }}
{{Medal|Gold| 2022 Bogotá | 61 kg }}
{{Medal|Gold| 2023 Bariloche | 61 kg }}
{{Medal|Competition| Junior Pan American Games }}
{{Medal|Silver| 2021 Cali | 61 kg }}
{{Medal|Competition| Junior World Championships }}
{{Medal|Gold| 2022 Heraklion | 61 kg }}
{{Medal|Gold| 2024 León | 61 kg }}
{{Medal|Silver| 2023 Guadalajara | 67 kg }}
{{Medal|Competition| Youth World Championships }}
{{Medal|Gold| 2021 Jeddah | 61 kg }}
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Hampton Miller Morris (born February 17, 2004){{Cite web |title=Weightlifting Start List |url=https://www.calivalle2021.com/uploads/item/682f0b4936428dade42aeb379750872253b1ff9d.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130210356/https://www.calivalle2021.com/uploads/item/682f0b4936428dade42aeb379750872253b1ff9d.pdf |archive-date=November 30, 2021 |access-date=July 25, 2022 |website=2021 Junior Pan American Games}} is an American weightlifter. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, he won bronze in the men's 61{{nbsp}}kg event. He is a three-time gold medalist in the men's 61{{nbsp}}kg event at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships (2021, 2022 and 2023). He also currently holds both the junior and senior clean and jerk world records in the men's 61{{nbsp}}kg class.
Career
Morris won the gold medal in the men's 61{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2021 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Guayaquil, Ecuador.{{Cite news |last=Oliver |first=Brian |date=November 8, 2021 |title=Mixed fortunes for Tokyo medallists at Pan American Weightlifting Championships |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1115182/pan-am-weightlifting-report |access-date=May 4, 2022 |archive-date=December 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211219040534/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1115182/pan-am-weightlifting-report |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |date=November 4, 2021 |title=Colombia y Estados Unidos, en varones, se adelantan en el medallero del Panamericano de halterofilia |language=es |url=https://www.eluniverso.com/deportes/otros-deportes/colombia-y-estados-unidos-en-varones-se-adelantan-en-el-medallero-del-panamericano-de-halterofilia-nota/ |access-date=August 8, 2022 |website=El Universo |archive-date=August 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808225512/https://www.eluniverso.com/deportes/otros-deportes/colombia-y-estados-unidos-en-varones-se-adelantan-en-el-medallero-del-panamericano-de-halterofilia-nota/ |url-status=live}} He won the silver medal in his event at the 2021 Junior Pan American Games held in Colombia.{{Cite news |date=November 29, 2021 |title=U.S. Weightlifters Win 7 Of 10 Possible Medals At Inaugural Junior Pan American Games |work=Team USA |url=https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Weightlifting/Features/2021/November/29/US-Weightlifters-Win-7-Of-10-Possible-Medals-At-Inaugural-Junior-Pan-American-Games |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129233613/https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Weightlifting/Features/2021/November/29/US-Weightlifters-Win-7-Of-10-Possible-Medals-At-Inaugural-Junior-Pan-American-Games |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 29, 2021 |access-date=May 4, 2022}}{{Cite web |title=Men's 61 kg Results |url=https://www.calivalle2021.com/uploads/resultados/competencias/Hombres%2061%20kg.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220829165007/https://www.calivalle2021.com/uploads/resultados/competencias/Hombres%2061%20kg.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2022 |access-date=July 27, 2022 |website=2021 Junior Pan American Games}} Morris was also one of the flagbearers for the United States during the opening ceremony.
Morris won the gold medal in the men's 61{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships held in Heraklion, Greece.{{Cite news |last=Oliver |first=Brian |date=May 3, 2022 |title=Sensational comeback by American weightlifter Morris and landmark gold for Belgium at Junior World Championships |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1122712/us-belgium-celebrate-iwf-juniors |access-date=May 4, 2022 |archive-date=May 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220504051849/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1122712/us-belgium-celebrate-iwf-juniors |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |title=2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships Results Book |url=https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2022/05/IWF_Results_Book_2022_GRE.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527123517/https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2022/05/IWF_Results_Book_2022_GRE.pdf |archive-date=May 27, 2022 |access-date=August 13, 2022 |website=International Weightlifting Federation}} Lifting 160{{nbsp}}kg in the Clean & Jerk also was a junior world record.
He won the gold medal in his event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.{{Cite news |date=July 25, 2022 |title=Junior world record and three golds for US at Pan American Weightlifting Championships |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1126195/pan-american-weightlifting-championships |access-date=July 26, 2022 |archive-date=July 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220726141523/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1126195/pan-american-weightlifting-championships |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |title=2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships Results Book |url=https://panampesas.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/RESULTBOOK.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730112107/https://panampesas.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/RESULTBOOK.pdf |archive-date=July 30, 2022 |access-date=July 30, 2022 |website=Federación Panamericana de Levantamiento de Pesas}} Morris also set a new junior world record of 162{{nbsp}}kg in the Clean & Jerk. He improved this record to 163{{nbsp}}kg at the 2022 Pan American Junior Weightlifting Championships held in Lima, Peru.{{Cite news |last=Oliver |first=Brian |date=October 21, 2022 |title=Another record for American teenager Morris at landmark weightlifting event |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1129486/hampton-morris-weightlifting-two-plats |access-date=November 13, 2022 |archive-date=November 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113133935/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1129486/hampton-morris-weightlifting-two-plats |url-status=live}}
Morris competed in the men's 61{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia. He won the gold medal in his event at the 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bariloche, Argentina.{{Cite news |last=Oliver |first=Brian |date=March 27, 2023 |title=Canadian Emily Ibanez Guerrero is weightlifting's youngest ever medallist |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1135281/weightlifting-emily-ibanez-guerrero |access-date=March 29, 2023 |archive-date=March 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329205107/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1135281/weightlifting-emily-ibanez-guerrero |url-status=live}} He also won the gold medal in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events.
On September 6, 2023, Morris won the gold medal in the clean and jerk at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships men's 61{{nbsp}}kg, becoming the first American to win a gold medal at a World Championship since 1972.|https://barbend.com/hampton-morris-wins-gold-medal-2023-world-weightlifting-championships/|
On August 7, 2024, Morris became the first male U.S. weightlifter to win an Olympic medal since 1984, with his bronze in the men's 61{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.{{Cite web |last=Intarasuwan • • |first=Kiki |date=August 7, 2024 |title=Hampton Morris becomes first American man to win weightlifting medal at the Olympics in 40 years |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/hampton-morris-olympic-weightlifting-bronze/5680453/ |access-date=August 7, 2024 |website=NBC New York |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Weightlifting Results Book |url=https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WLF/OG2024_WLF_B99_WLF-------------------------------.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240811193408/https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WLF/OG2024_WLF_B99_WLF-------------------------------.pdf |archive-date=August 11, 2024 |access-date=August 12, 2024 |website=2024 Summer Olympics}}
Achievements
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| colspan=13 | Summer Olympics | ||||||||||||
| 2024 | align=left | Paris, France | 61 kg | 122 | 126 | {{n/a}} | 172 | {{n/a}} | 298 | {{bronze3}} | |||
| colspan=13 | IWF World Cup | ||||||||||||
| 2024 | align=left | Phuket, Thailand | 61 kg | 124 | 127 | 11 | 172 | 176 CWR | {{gold1}} | 303 | {{silver2}} | ||
| colspan=13 | World Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2022 | align=left | Bogotá, Colombia | 61 kg | 118 | 16 | 157 | 9 | 275 | 15 | ||||
| 2023 | align=left | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | 61 kg | — | 163 | 168 | {{gold1}} | — | — | ||||
| colspan=13 | Pan American Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2021 | align=left | Guayaquil, Ecuador | 61 kg | 112 | 117 | {{bronze3}} | 148 | 151 | {{gold1}} | 268 | {{gold1}} | ||
| 2022 | align=left | Bogotá, Colombia | 61 kg | 117 | 5 | 153 | 158 | 162 | {{gold1}} | 279 | {{gold1}} | ||
| 2023 | align=left | Bariloche, Argentina | 61 kg | 120 | 123 | {{gold1}} | 158 | {{gold1}} | 281 | {{gold1}} |
References
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External links
- {{IWF|15312|Hampton Miller Morris}}
- [https://www.usaweightlifting.org/profiles/hampton-morris-2024 Hampton Morris] at USA Weightlifting
- {{Team USA|new_id=hampton-morris}}
- {{Olympics.com}}
- [https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/hampton-morris_1917153 Hampton Morris] at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
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Category:American male weightlifters
Category:Pan American Weightlifting Championships medalists
Category:Olympic weightlifters for the United States
Category:Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in weightlifting
Category:Olympic medalists in weightlifting
Category:Weightlifters at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics