 Hufnagel at the 2024 United States Olympic trials | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Charity Griffith |
| Nationality | American |
| Born | 18 June 2001 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | High Jump, Heptathlon, Pentathlon |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | High jump: 1.94 (Eugene, 2024) Heptathlon: 5914 (Gainesville, 2024) |
Charity Hufnagel (nee Griffith) (born 18 June 2001) is an American high jumper and multi-event athlete. [1]
She attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana before transferring to the University of Kentucky. [2]
Competing as Charity Griffith in 2022, she finished fifth in the NCAA Outdoor Championship high jump competition. [3]
In 2023, she was named the Most Valuable Performer of the 2023 Mid-American Conference Indoor track Championships and won titles in the pentathlon and the high jump. [4] In June 2023, she won the high jump competition at the NCAA Outdoor Championship held in Austin, Texas. [5] To do so, she set a new personal best height of 1.93m to upset defending champion and 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medalist Lamara Distin. [6] [7]
She won the pentathlon at the Southeastern Conference Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas in February 2024. [8]
She finished second in the heptathlon at the SEC Outdoor Championships in May 2024, with a personal best tally of 5914 points, in Gainesville, Florida. [9]
She won the 2024 United States Olympic trials with a clearance of 1.94 metres. [10] [11]
After marrying in July 2023, she took on the surname Hufnagel. [2]
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