Chaunte Howard Lowe: Sets HJ AR, 2.04m/6'-8.25", courtesy of USATF, note by Larry Eder

Chaunte Howard Lowe, 2009 Millrose Games, photo by PhotoRun.net.

Chaunte Howard Lowe Sets AR!

Chaunte Howard Lowe has been on a roll in 2010! At the US indoor champs in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the bar fell off the standards after she had cleared an apparent AR. In Mid March, Chaunte Howard Lowe medalled in Doha, Qatar at the World Indoor Champs.

On Wednesday, May 27, At the Ostrava meeting, the 49th Golden Spike, Chaunte Howard Lowe defeated Blanka Vlasic, 1.92m for Lowe, and 1.88m for Vlasic. On Sunday, May 30, 2010, in the Leisitzer 21rst Cottbus International Athleics meeting, Chaunte Howard Lowe warmed up into the high jump, starting at the opening of 1.87m and taking two jumps to clear 2.03/6-7.75 to tie Louise Ritter’s AR from 1988. On the third and final attempt at
2.04m or 6-8.25, Chaunte Howard Lowe had her own record! Chaunte had broken the 22 year old record of Louis Ritter!

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Chaunte Howard Lowe, 2009 Millrose Games, photo by PhotoRun.net.

Lowe sets American record in high jump

INDIANAPOLIS – 2010 World Indoor bronze medalist Chaunte Lowe set the American record in the women’s high jump Sunday at the 21^st Lausitzer International Athletics Meeting in Cottbus, Germany.

A three-time USA Outdoor champion, Lowe
cleared 2.04m/6-8.25 to win the women’s high jump and break the
22-year-old American record. The previous record of 2.03m/6-7.75 was
set by Louise Ritter back in 1988. Lowe came into the competition at
1.81m/5-11.25 and jumped at every height in the progression. After a
first attempt clearance at 2.01m/6-7, Lowe needed two attempts to clear
2.03m/6-7.75 before moving the bar up to 2.04m/6-8.25. It was on her
third and final attempt that Lowe was able to clear 2.04m and claim the
American record.

For more information on Chaunte Lowe, visit http://www.usatf.org/athletes/bios/Howard_Chaunte.asp. For more information and complete results from the 21^st Lausitzer International Athletics Meeting, visit http://www.german-meeting.de/ergebnisse.htm.

About USA Track & Field

USA
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field, long-distance running and race walking in the United States.
USATF encompasses the world’s oldest organized sports, some of the
most-watched events of Olympic broadcasts, the #1 high school and
junior high school participatory sport and more than 30 million adult
runners in the United States.

For more information on USATF, visit www.usatf.org

Author

Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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