Karyn Marshall
| Karyn Marshall | |
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Marshall in 1993
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| Born | 1956 (age 60–61) |
| Residence | New Jersey |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Columbia University NY Chiropractic |
| Occupation | Chiropractor at Champion Chiropractic |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) |
| Website | http://www.championchiro.com |
| Medal record | ||
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| Women's Weightlifting | ||
| World Championship | ||
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World competition 1987 | +75 kg |
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Jakarta (INA) 1988 | +75 kg |
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Manchester (GBR) 1989 | +75 kg |
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Sarajevo (YUG) 1990 | +75 kg |
| National Championship | ||
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Los Angeles (USA) 1989 | +82.5 kg |
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Oklahoma City (USA) 1989 | Women's heavyweight |
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Empire State Games (USA) 1999 | +82.5 kg |
Dr. Karyn Marshall, DC, (born 1956 in Miami, Florida) is an American Olympic weightlifter of Norwegian descent who is notable for winning the first women’s world championship in weightlifting, held in 1987. She also set 60 American and world records in women's weightlifting and in 1985 became the first woman in history to clean and jerk over 300 lb (136 kg), which she did with a lift of 303 pounds (137 kg). She became a doctor of chiropractic and runs a private practice in Shrewsbury, New Jersey while battling breast cancer since 2011. In 2011, Marshall was inducted into the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame, and she was inducted into the International Weightlifting Hall of Fame in 2015. She gave a TED talk in 2015.
Marshall was born in a Miami hospital in 1956 but grew up in Coral Gables, Florida, but her family moved north to Bronxville, New York in the 1960s. She attended Bronxville High School and excelled in field hockey (she was goalie) and basketball (center), graduating in 1974, and she also competed in tennis and track. She earned a bachelor of science degree from Columbia University in 1980 and was a Dean's List student. She worked as a nurse for six months but changed her mind saying there "were a lot of frustrations." She worked as a financial analyst at the Wall Street brokerage firm of P. R. Herzig and Company for ten years.
Marshall began training in 1978. She was coached by talented weightlifters such as Arthur Drechsler and Mark Chasnov. Generally in the 1970s there were no local, national or international competitions for women weightlifters, and women's weightlifting was not seen so much as a legitimate sport but more as a "freak show". She commented in Sports Illustrated in 1987 that "people think women weightlifters are squat and muscle-bound, with all the intelligence of amoebas".
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