.jpg) Hawkins (right) at the 2019 Hypo-Meeting | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Chari Wanda Hawkins |
| Born | May 21, 1991 |
| Education | Utah State University[1] |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Track and field |
| Event | Heptathlon |
| College team | Utah State Aggies |
Chari Wanda Hawkins (born May 21, 1991) is an American track and field athlete who competes in combined events. She became the 2022 US National Pentathlon Champion with a gold medal performance at the USATF Indoor Championships in Spokane, Washington.[2] She represented the US in the heptathlon[3] at the 2019 World Championships in Doha finishing 12th overall, & at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest finishing 8th overall.
In 2022 she earned recognition by USATF for Athlete of the Week for her first-place finish in the heptathlon at the World Athletics Combined Events Tour -Gold event held in Arona, Spain where she achieved a personal best with 6,243 points.[4] In 2023, she was signed as an Advocare athlete endorser.[5]
Other career heptathlon highlights include capturing bronze at the 2019 USATF Outdoor Championships, winning silver at the 2018 Pan American Combined Events, earning bronze at the 2017 Thorpe Cup and finishing fourth at the 2015 World University Games.
In the pentathlon event she won a bronze medal at the 2016 USATF Indoor Championships and finished fifth at the 2017 USATF Indoor Championships.
