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Chandra Cheeseborough's
first exposure to the track program at Tennessee State University and Coach Ed
Temple came during her junior year in high school. Growing
up in Jacksonville, Florida, Cheeseborough came to Nashville in the summer and
competed as a member of the Tennessee State Track Club under Coach Temple. |
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enjoyed exceptional success. She was a member of the winning 400-meter team that
set a junior record in the National Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Junior Women's
Track and Field Championships. She emerged on the international scene in '75 at
the age of 16, when she won a Gold Medal in the 200-meter at the Pan American
Games in Mexico City. She
placed second in the 100 and 200-meter competitions at the USA Olympic Trials
in Eugene, Oregon, and became a member of the 1976 Olympic Team. She placed sixth
in the 100-meter in Montreal. She qualified for the ill-fated 1980 Olympic team
in both sprints. According
to "Track's Greatest Women" by John Henershott, 1984 saw a "new"
Cheeseborough emerge in the 400-meter. She set American records before the Olympics
in Los Angeles, and won a Silver Medal in the 400-meter at the Olympics. Cheeseborough
made Olympic history by running a leg on the Gold Medal Relay Team in the same
Olympics. This made her a winner of two Gold Medals and one Silver Medal at the
1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
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