Holley Mangold

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Holley Mangold
Personal information
Birth nameHolley Mangold
NationalityAmerican
Born (1989-12-22) December 22, 1989 (age 34)
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) [1]
Sport
Country United States
Sport Olympic weightlifting, [1]
high school football [2]

Holley Mangold (born December 22, 1989) is an American sportsperson from Dayton, Ohio. [3] She was a member of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team and competed in the superheavyweight division of the Olympic weightlifting competition. [1] She has also appeared on The Biggest Loser. [4]

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Early life

Mangold is the sister of NFL center Nick Mangold. [5] [6]

Mangold played high school football at Archbishop Alter High School on the offensive line [7] and was the first female non-kicker to play in an Ohio Division III high-school football game. [8] She dropped out of Ursuline College in May 2010; [1] she had attended Ursuline on a track scholarship. [7]

Career

Mangold began weightlifting in 2008. [9] She stands 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m) tall. [1] As of 2014, her in-competition weight was 370 pounds (170 kg). [10]

2012 London Olympics

Mangold's personal weightlifting record total is 255 kilos (562.2 pounds) from a 110 kilo (242.5 pounds) snatch and 145 kilo (319.7 pounds) clean and jerk. That aggregate total landed her one of two spots on the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team. [1] However, before she went to London to compete, Mangold tore a tendon in her wrist and required three cortisone shots before the super heavyweight competition. Mangold placed tenth out of the 14 weightlifters in her division. [11]

Television

A video documentary about Mangold's life premiered on MTV's "True Life" on June 30, 2011 in an episode entitled "I'm the Big Girl." [12]

Mangold was a participant in The Biggest Loser: Second Chances 2 , the 15th season of the TV series, The Biggest Loser. She was eliminated after seven episodes. [13]

On June 1, 2015, an Instagram video of Mangold spoofing J. J. Watt's box jumps went viral. [14]

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