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Amy Acuff

Acuff at the 2008 World Indoor Championships
Personal information
Full name	Amy Lyn Acuff
Nationality	American
Date of birth	July 14, 1975 (1975-07-14) (age 34)
Place of birth	Port Arthur, Texas
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight	145 lb (66 kg)
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Track and field athletics
Event(s)	High jump
Club	UCLA Bruins
Team	USA Track & Field
Achievements and titles
Worlds	See table
National finals	Outdoor: 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003–2005 Indoor: 2001, 2004–2008
Olympics	2004
Highest world ranking	2nd (2001 Grand Prix) 3rd (2006 World Cup)
Personal best(s)	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) August 15, 2003

Amy Lyn Acuff (born July 14, 1975, Port Arthur, Texas) is a track and field athlete from the United States. A high jump specialist, she competed in the 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008 Summer Olympics as a member of USA Track and Field. Her best Olympic performance came at the 2004 Games, where her jump of 1.99 m earned her fourth place in the final.

She established herself domestically with wins at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 1995 and 1997. At the age of 22, she became the Universiade champion, edging out Monica Iagăr in the 1997 high jump final. Acuff was the winner of the 1998 Hochsprung mit Musik meeting in Arnstadt, Germany, becoming the first non-European winner in the history of the event. She went on to win at the national championships in 2001, 2003, and 2005.

Her personal best is 2.01 m, which she achieved in Zürich on August 15, 2003.

Contents 1 Competition record 2 Modeling 3 Personal life 4 References 5 External links

Competition record

• National Scholastic Indoor Champion: 1991, 1992
• Pan-Am Junior Champion: 1993
• NCAA Indoor Champion: 1994, 1995, 1997
• NCAA Outdoor Champion: 1995, 1996
• U.S. Outdoor Champion: 1995–1997, 2001–2007
• U.S. Indoor Champion: 2001, 2004, 2007–2008

International events (finalist or qualifier)

Event	Rank	Height (m)	Location	Date
World Junior Championships	9	1.85	Seoul	1992-09-19
World Championships	8	1.93	Gothenburg	1995-08-13
World University Games	1		Sicily	1997-08
World Championships	6	1.92	Athens	1997-08-08
IAAF Grand Prix Final	6	1.93	Fukuoka	1997-09-13
World Championships	9	1.93	Seville	1999-08-29
Summer Olympics	17	1.80	Sydney	2000-09-28
World Indoor Championships	4	1.96	Lisbon	2001-03-09
World Championships	10	1.90	Edmonton	2001-08-12
IAAF Grand Prix Final	2	1.96	Melbourne	2001-09-09
World Indoor Championships	10	1.92	Birmingham	2003-03-16
World Championships	9	1.90	Saint-Denis	2003-08-31
Summer Olympics	4	1.99	Athens	2004-08-28
IAAF World Athletics Final	6	1.95	Monaco	2004-09-18
World Championships	8	1.89	Helsinki	2005-08-08
World Indoor Championships	13	1.90	Moscow	2006-03-11
IAAF World Athletics Final	5	1.94	Stuttgart	2006-09-09
IAAF World Cup	3	1.94	Athens	2006-09-17
World Championships	12	1.94	Osaka	2007-09-02
IAAF World Athletics Final	5	1.94	Stuttgart	2007-09-22
World Indoor Championships	6	1.95	Valencia	2008-03-09
Summer Olympics	9	1.89	Beijing	2008-08-21

Modeling

Acuff is also known for her career as a model. She organized the 2000 Omni Lite Millennium Calendar of Champions, featuring nude (or semi-nude) photos of Acuff and 11 other U.S. female track and field stars, with half the proceeds going to the Florence Griffith-Joyner Foundation.

Acuff's cover appearances include:

• Esquire, “Women of Summer: Strength & Beauty: A Portfolio of America’s 10 Sexiest Athletes”
• “Men's magazines”, such as Maxim and FHM

• The 2004 Olympics were noted for the large number of female Olympians who posed nude—following in the footsteps of the 2000 Matildas and the Omni calendar. Of the 2004 examples the most visible was Acuff's appearance on the cover and within Playboy's, “The Women of the Olympics” issue.¹²

• Acuff appears across the top of the title for The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition.³

Personal life

Acuff graduated from Calallen High School in Corpus Christi, Texas. She attended UCLA and was inducted into the UCLA Bruins Hall of Fame in 2007.

She is distantly related to country musician Roy Acuff (her grandfather’s second cousin).⁴

References

External links

• Amy’s official website
• IAAF profile for Amy Acuff
• Video Interview
  • "Flotrack Video Interviews and pictures of Amy Acuff". http://www.flocasts.org/flotrack/search.php?cx=003556892317167185039%3A536qwfr48fi&cof=FORID%3A11&q=amy+acuff&domain=1&sa=Search. 

Sporting positions
Preceded by Angie Bradburn	USA National High Jump Champion 1995	Succeeded by Tisha Waller
Preceded by Tisha Waller	USA National High Jump Champion 1997	Succeeded by Tisha Waller
Preceded by Karol Damon	USA National High Jump Champion 2001	Succeeded by Tisha Waller
Preceded by Tisha Waller	USA National High Jump Champion 2003	Succeeded by Tisha Waller
Preceded by Tisha Waller	USA National High Jump Champion 2005	Succeeded by Chaunte Howard

v • d • e Summer Universiade Champions in Women's High Jump  1959 – 1961: Iolanda Balaş (ROM) •  1963: Taisiya Chenchik (URS) •  1965: Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL) •  1967: Mami Takeda (JPN) •  1970: Snezana Hrepevnik (YUG) •  1973: Virginia Ioan (ROM) •  1975: Galina Filatova (URS) •  1977: Sara Simeoni (ITA) •  1979: Andrea Mátay (HUN) •  1981: Sara Simeoni (ITA) •  1983: Tamara Bykova (URS) •  1985: Silvia Costa (CUB) •  1987: Svetlana Isaeva (BUL) •  1989: Alina Astafei (ROM) •  1991: Alison Inverarity (AUS) •  1993: Tanya Hughes (USA) •  1995: Viktoriya Fyodorova (RUS) •  1997: Amy Acuff (USA) •  1999: Monica Iagăr (ROM) •  2001: Vita Palamar (UKR) •  2003: Dóra Győrffy (HUN) •  2005: Anna Chicherova (RUS) •  2007: Marina Aitova (KAZ) •  2009: Ariane Friedrich (GER)