Kym Carter

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| birth_name = Lelia Kym Carter Begel

| birth_date = March 12, 1964

| birth_place = Inglewood, California

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| nationality = American

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| occupation = Heptathlete

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

Carter is the Carl Lewis Foundation's executive director and a board member of Sound Body Sound Mind, a program to increase physical fitness in high schools.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} She is the mother of twins.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

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.[http://www.nfhs.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=3247 National High School Record Book] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927115642/http://www.nfhs.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=3247 |date=September 27, 2011 }}

References

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[http://www.usatf.org/athletes/bios/TrackAndFieldArchive/1997/carter.asp Kym Carter] profile at USATF
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080606224649/http://www.soundbodysoundmind.com/website/about_board.asp Sound Body Sound Mind profile]

{{USA Indoor Track and Field Championships winners in women's pentathlon}}

Category:1964 births

Category:Living people

Category:Sportspeople from Inglewood, California

Category:Track and field athletes from California

Category:American heptathletes

Category:African-American track and field athletes

Category:Olympic track and field athletes for the United States

Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States

Category:Houston Cougars women's track and field athletes

Category:LSU Lady Tigers track and field athletes

Category:21st-century African-American sportswomen

Category:21st-century American sportswomen

Category:20th-century African-American sportswomen

Category:20th-century American sportswomen