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• Acuff finishes 12th in high jump finals

  Recordnet.com - Found Aug. 21, 2009 Amy Acuff, a four-time Olympic high jumper, who trained for the 2008 Summer Olympics with Tri-Valley Athletics at the Port of Stockton, had a rough

• Hardee wins decathlon gold at Berlin World Championships

  Colorado Runner - Found Aug. 22, 2009 Four-time Olympian and eight-time world outdoor championships team member Amy Acuff (Isleton, Calif.) cleared one height at 1.87m/6-1.50... Hardee wins decathlon gold medal at worlds - MSN.co.in Explore All

• IAAF World Athletics Championships Results: Aug. 20

  Houston Chronicle - Found Aug. 21, 2009 9, Melanie Melfort, France, 6-3. 10, Elena Slesarenko, Russia, 6-3. 11, Meike Kroger, Germany, 6-1. 12, Amy Acuff, United States, 6-1. Hammer...

• Hardee wins decathlon gold at Berlin World Championships

  Run Ohio - Found Aug. 21, 2009 Four-time Olympian and eight-time world outdoor championships team member Amy Acuff (Isleton, Calif.) cleared one height at 1.87m/6-1.50...

• US Decathlete Hardee Wins Gold; 3 US Advance in 5K

  New England Runner - Found Aug. 21, 2009 Four-time Olympian and eight-time world outdoor championships team member Amy Acuff (Isleton, Calif.) cleared one height at 1.87m/6-1.50...

• Day 4 (Tue) US Quotes at World Champs

  New England Runner - Found Aug. 21, 2009 Four-time Olympian Amy Acuff (Isleton, Calif.) cleared 1.95m/6-4.75 on her second attempt to finish eighth in qualifying and save her a spot...

• Galt's Stephanie Brown Trafton going for gold trifecta in Germany

  Lodi News-Sentinel - Found Aug. 21, 2009 ... at 6 p.m. Another local athlete, Amy Acuff, placed 12th in the women's high jump final at the World Championships on Thursday. Acuff, who lives...

• Day 6 Team USA evening quotes - LIVE

  USA Track and Field - Found Aug. 20, 2009 Amy Acuff (Isleton, California), 12th in women's high jump I bet the house on a fast, aggressive approach that I know I can jump 2 meters on...

• Hardee wins decathlon gold at Berlin World Championships

  USA Track and Field - Found Aug. 20, 2009 Four-time Olympian and eight-time world outdoor championships team member Amy Acuff (Isleton, Calif.) cleared one height at 1.87m/6-1.50...

• Track & Field: Hardee Wins World Championship

  Austin Chronicle - Found Aug. 21, 2009 * Former Austinite Amy Acuff placed 12th in the high jump. She plans to retire after this season.

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Amy Acuff

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 an athlete from the United States. An aggressive high jump competitor, Acuff competed in the 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008 Summer Olympics as a member of USA Track and Field. Her personal best is 2.01 m, which she achieved in Zürich on August 15, 2003. Acuff graduated from Calallen High School in Corpus Christi, Texas

Acuff lives in Austin, Texas, and is an alumna of UCLA where she was inducted into the UCLA Bruins Hall of Fame in 2007.

Acuff is distantly related to country musician Roy Acuff (her grandfather’s second cousin). (Acuff-Ecoff Family Archives)

Acuff's championships include:

• 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

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)