- Chandra Cheeseborough
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Medal record Women's athletics Competitor for the 
United StatesOlympic Games Gold Los Angeles 1984 4x100 m relay Gold Los Angeles 1984 4x400 m relay Silver Los Angeles 1984 400 m Olympic Boycott Games Gold 1980 Philadelphia 100 m Gold 1980 Philadelphia 4x100 m relay Pan American Games Gold 1975 Mexico City 200 m Chandra Danette Cheeseborough (born January 10, 1959 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American track and field athlete. Cheeseborough broke onto the international track scene at age 16 by winning two gold medals at the 1975 Pan American Games, taking the 200 m in an American record time of 22.77 seconds. In 1976, she set an American junior record of 11.13 seconds in winning the 100 meters at the national championships, then placed sixth in that event at the Montreal Olympics.
She graduated from Ribault High School in Jacksonville, Florida in 1974, where she set the still standing NFHS national high school records in both the 100 yard (10.3) and 220 yard (23.3) dashes. The federation converted record-keeping to metric distances shortly afterward.[1] Next she attended Tennessee State, where she was a member of national championship teams that set world indoor records of 1:08.9 minutes in the 640-yard relay and 1:47.17 in the 800-yard sprint medley relay. She won the national indoor 200-yard dash in 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1983. Her breakthrough year in the 400m came in 1984, when she set two American records in the event, then placed second in the Los Angeles Olympics in a career best of 49.04. She made history at the 1984 Games when she became the first woman to win gold medals in both relays, which were held less than an hour apart.
Cheeseborough later became a coach and returned to Tennessee State. She was named head coach of both men and women in 1999. She also has served as an assistant coach for the U.S. team at the 1999 Junior Pan-Am Championships.
In March of 2007 it was announced that Cheeseborough would be the assistant coach for the 2008 Olympic team. Cheeseborough coached the sprints and hurdles for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Competition record
- 1976 Olympics: 100 m (6th)
- 1984 Olympics: 400 m - 49.04 (2nd)
- 1984 Olympics: 4x100m relay (1st)
- 1984 Olympics: 4x400m relay (1st)
- 1976 National Championships: 100 m - 11.13 (1st)
- 1979 National Indoor Championships: 200 yd. (1st)
- 1984 National Indoor Champs: 200 yd. (1st)
- 1982 National Indoor Champs: 200 yd. (1st)
- 1983 National Indoor Champs: 200 yd. (1st)
- 1975 Pan Am Games: 200 m - 22.77 (1st)
References
- ^ http://www.nfhs.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=3247 National High School Record Book
- IAAF profile for Chandra Cheeseborough
External links
Olympic Champions in Women's 4×400 m relay - 1972: East Germany (Käsling, Kühne, Seidler, Zehrt)
- 1976: East Germany (Maletzki, Rohde, Streidt, Brehmer)
- 1980: Soviet Union (Prorochenko, Goistchik, Zyuskova, Nazarova)
- 1984: United States (Leatherwood, Howard, Brisco-Hooks, Cheeseborough)
- 1988: Sovie Union (Ledovskaya, Nazarova, Pinigina, Bryzhina)
- 1992: Unified Team (Ruzina, Dzhigalova, Nazarova, Bryzhina, Nurutdinova, Shmonina)
- 1996: United States (Stevens, Malone-Wallace, Graham, Miles, Wilson)
- 2000: United States (Miles Clark, Hennagan, Colander, Anderson)
- 2004: United States (Trotter, Henderson, Richards, Hennagan, Cox, Robinson)
- 2008: United States (Wineberg, Felix, Henderson, Richards, Hastings)
Pan American Champions in Women's 200 m 1951: Jean Patton (USA) • 1955: not held • 1959: Lucinda Williams (USA) • 1963: Vivian Brown (USA) • 1967: Wyomia Tyus (USA) • 1971: Stephanie Berto (CAN) • 1975: Chandra Cheeseborough (USA) • 1979: Evelyn Ashford (USA) • 1983: Randy Givens (USA) • 1987: Gwen Torrence (USA) • 1991 – 1995: Liliana Allen (CUB) • 1999: Debbie Ferguson (BAH) • 2003 – 2007: Roxana Díaz (CUB) • 2011: Ana Cláudia Lemos (BRA)
Florida Sports Hall of Fame A–C
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Tim Raines • Jim Rathmann • Dot Richardson • Rick Rhoden • Bobby Riggs • Ken Riley • Joe Robbie • Glenn "Fireball" Roberts • Robin Roberts • Chi Chi Rodriguez • Tony Romeo • Al Rosen • Pete Sampras • Deion Sanders • Doug Sanders • Gene Sarazen • Herb Score • Howard Schnellenberger • Pancho Segura • Earnie Seiler • Monica Seles • Ron Sellers • Lee Roy Selmon • Rip Sewell • Frank Shorter • Don Shula • Hal Smeltzy • Emmitt Smith • Freddie Solomon • Steve Spurrier • George Steinbrenner • Payne Stewart • Lyn St. James • Roger Strickland • Pat Summerall • Don Sutton • Mark Swiconek • Charlie Tate • Zack Taylor • Vinny Testaverde • Gino Toretta • James Van Fleet • Dale Van Sickel • Don Veller • Dick Vitale • Don Wallen • Paul Waner • Paul Warfield • Glenn Wilkes • Ted Williams • Mary Wise • Danny Wuerffel • Early Wynn • Garo Yepremian • Jack Youngblood • Babe ZahariasCategories:- 1959 births
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- Living people
- Tennessee State University alumni
- Olympic track and field athletes of the United States
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
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- High school national record holder
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