1. Karyn Marshall became a chiropractor and runs a private practice in Shrewsbury, New Jersey while battling breast cancer since 2011.
20 Facts About Karyn Marshall
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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.
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Karyn Marshall was born in a Miami hospital in 1956 and grew up in Coral Gables, Florida.
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Karyn Marshall's family moved to Bronxville, New York in the 1960s.
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Karyn Marshall attended Bronxville High School and excelled in field hockey and basketball, graduating in 1974, and she competed in tennis and track.
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Karyn Marshall earned a Bachelor of Science in nursing degree from Columbia University in 1980 and was a Dean's List student.
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Karyn Marshall was coached by talented weightlifters such as Arthur Drechsler and Mark Chasnov.
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Karyn Marshall 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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In 1983, Karyn Marshall learned from men's coach Mark LeMenager that the women's weightlifting record had been set 75 years earlier when circus performer Katie Sandwina lifted 130-kilogram overhead; according to Drechsler, the Sandwina record inspired Karyn Marshall to work harder.
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In 1985, Karyn Marshall lifted 303 pounds in the clean-and-jerk lift.
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In 1987, the first year in which there was a world championship for women in weightlifting, Karyn Marshall competed for the United States against a surprisingly strong team from China.
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Karyn Marshall made the highest total in the competition to earn the title of World's Strongest Woman.
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Karyn Marshall won the International Weightlifting Federation World Championship.
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Karyn Marshall was described as the "top American finisher" in the 181.75 pounds pound weight class.
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In 1989, Karyn Marshall won the women's heavyweight division lifting a total of 507 pounds.
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Karyn Marshall is the first woman in history to snatch over 200 pounds.
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Karyn Marshall appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Joan Rivers Show, ESPN, CNN, and various other prime time news and sports broadcasts.
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Karyn Marshall began studying to be a chiropractor at Northeast College of Health Sciences based on her successful experiences as a patient.
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Karyn Marshall attributed much of her success in weightlifting to chiropractic because it steered her away from painkillers and towards drug-free and non-surgical forms of treatment and prevention, she said in an interview.
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Karyn Marshall was described as having bench-pressed 238 pounds, and made a "475 pound [215 kg] dead lift".