{{Short description|American weightlifter (born 1956)}} {{Infobox person |name = Karyn Marshall |image = Karyn Marshall With Trophy (cropped).jpg |alt = |caption = Marshall in 2011 |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|04|02}} |birth_place = Miami, Florida, U.S. |death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> |other_names = |known_for = |education = |alma_mater = Columbia University<br/>Northeast College of Health Sciences |employer = |occupation = Chiropractor at Champion Chiropractic |years_active = 1990&ndash;present |height = 5 feet 10 inches |title = |awards = |signature = |website = [https://www.championchiro.com/ championchiro.com] }} {{MedalTableTop}} {{MedalSport | Women's Weightlifting}} {{MedalCompetition|World Championship}} {{MedalGold| World competition 1987 | +75 kg}}<ref name=tws02oct01/> {{MedalSilver| Jakarta (INA) 1988 | +75 kg}}<ref name=twsMarE21/> {{MedalSilver| Manchester (GBR) 1989 | +75 kg}}<ref name=twsMarE21/> {{MedalSilver| Sarajevo (YUG) 1990 | +75 kg}}<ref name=twsMarE21/> {{MedalCompetition|National Championship}} {{MedalGold | Los Angeles (USA) 1989 | +82.5 kg}}<ref name=tws02oct01/> {{MedalGold | Oklahoma City (USA) 1989 | Women's heavyweight}}<ref name=tws02oct08/> {{MedalGold | Empire State Games (USA) 1999 | +82.5 kg}}<ref name=tws02oct23/> {{MedalBottom}} [[File:Arnold Schwarzenegger and Karyn Marshall.JPG|thumb|Marshall was inducted into the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame in Columbus, Ohio in March 2011. Arnold Schwarzenegger (left) presented the award.]] thumb|300px|Marshall lifting barbells at the 1987 world weightlifting competition in Daytona Beach, Florida. '''Karyn Marshall''' (born '''Karyn Bastiansen''' April 2, 1956, in Miami, Florida) is an American Olympic weightlifter who won the first women's world championship in weightlifting, held in 1987.<ref name=tws02oct01/><ref name=twsMarE21/><ref>{{cite book|title=Sports: The Complete Visual Reference|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j-QI04Vh-LAC&pg=PA70|year=2005|publisher=Québec Amerique|isbn=978-2-7644-0897-1|pages=70–}}</ref><ref name="twsOLift">{{cite web | last1=Jefferson | first1= Anton | last2=Nicoletta | first2=Vanessa | date= November 16, 2015 | publisher= OLift Magazine | url= http://www.theoliftmag.com/2015/11/16/karyn-marshall-usaws-first-overall-womens-world-champion-and-trailblazer-for-womens-weightlifting/ | title= Karyn Marshall – The First Woman to Clean and Jerk 300lbs | accessdate= January 4, 2016 | quote=...A trailblazer of special note is Karyn Marshall, the USA’s first ever Women’s World Champion and the first woman to clean and jerk in excess of 300lbs. ... }}</ref> She also set 60 American and world records in women's weightlifting and in 1985 became the first woman in history to clean and jerk over {{convert|300|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}, which she did with a lift of {{convert|303|lb}}.<ref name=tws02oct17>{{cite web | title = On this day...a 23 of March ....somewhere in time .... | publisher = Xtratime Community | year = 1985 | url = http://www.xtratime.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-52431-p-25.html | accessdate = 2009-10-02 }}</ref><ref name=twsSREFsettingworldrecords/> She became a chiropractor and runs a private practice in Shrewsbury, New Jersey while battling breast cancer since 2011.<ref name=twsOctJ404>{{cite news |author= Stephanie Sy |title= World's Strongest Woman Fights Breast Cancer With Exercise: The 56-year-old former world weightlifting champion, Karyn Marshall, was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer last year. After undergoing treatment, she quickly returned to her gym in New Jersey, where she found physical, emotional, and mental strength. |newspaper= Everyday Health |date= September 26, 2012 |url= http://www.everydayhealth.com/breast-cancer/worlds-strongest-woman-fights-breast-cancer-with-exercise.aspx |accessdate= October 10, 2010 }}</ref> In 2011, Marshall was inducted into the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame,<ref name=twsMarE21>{{cite news |author= Nicole Jomantas |title= Karyn Marshall, Tara Cunningham and Shane Hamman to Enter the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame |publisher= teamusa.org |date= March 5, 2011 |url= http://weightlifting.teamusa.org/news/2011/03/05/karyn-marshall-tara-cunningham-and-shane-hamman-to-enter-the-usa-weightlifting-hall-of-fame/41252 |accessdate= 2011-03-05 }}{{dead link|date=September 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> and she was inducted into the International Weightlifting Hall of Fame in 2015.<ref name=twsJan2016>{{cite news |author= Anna Resman |title= Karyn Marshall and Tara Not Cunningham Inducted into IWF Hall of Fame |publisher= USAWeightlifting.org |date= 2015 |url= http://content.yudu.com/web/y5b2/0A1t11o/WeightliftingWint15/flash/resources/1.htm |quote= (see pages 6-7) |accessdate= January 5, 2016 }}</ref>

==Early years== Marshall was born in a Miami hospital in 1956 and grew up in Coral Gables, Florida.<ref name=Drechsler2010>Arthur Drechsler, April 5, 2011, teamusa, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140606203254/http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Weightlifting/Features/2011/April/05/Karyn-Marshall-USAW-s-First-Overall-Women-s-World-Champion Karyn Marshall - USAW's First Overall Women's World Champion], Accessed June 4, 2014</ref> Her family moved to Bronxville, New York in the 1960s.<ref name=SI>{{cite magazine|url=http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1067134/index.htm |title=A Lift For Wall Street |last=Lidz |first=Franz |date=March 21, 1988 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |accessdate=2009-06-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011090230/http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1067134/index.htm |archivedate=October 11, 2011 }}</ref><ref name=Drechsler2010/> She attended Bronxville High School and excelled in field hockey (she was goalie) and basketball (center), graduating in 1974,<ref name=SI/> and she also competed in tennis and track.<ref name=Drechsler2010/> She earned a Bachelor of Science in nursing degree from Columbia University in 1980<ref name=SI/><ref name=Drechsler2010/><ref name=journal>{{cite news|url=http://www.worldchiropracticalliance.org/tcj/1991/feb/feb1991a.htm |title=Weightlifter turns to chiropractic |date=February 1991 |work=The Chiropractic Journal |accessdate=2009-06-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706235730/http://www.worldchiropracticalliance.org/tcj/1991/feb/feb1991a.htm |archivedate=2010-07-06 }}</ref> and was a Dean's List student.<ref name=tws02oct01>{{cite news | author = Julie Carft | title = Image is Heavy Burden - Weightlifter Karyn Marshall Feels Pressure to Project 'Femininity, Intelligence' | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | date = July 29, 1989 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-07-29-sp-145-story.html | access-date = 2009-10-02 }}</ref> She worked as a nurse for six months but changed her mind saying there "were a lot of frustrations."<ref name="tws02oct01" /> She worked as a financial analyst at the Wall Street brokerage firm of P. R. Herzig and Company for ten years.<ref name=tws02oct01/><ref name=SI/><ref name=Drechsler2010/>

==Career== Marshall began training in 1978.<ref name=Drechsler2010/><ref name=journal/> She was coached by talented weightlifters such as Arthur Drechsler<ref name=tws02oct33>{{cite news | author = Press release | title = What Did You Do This Summer? New York City's Youth Trained In Parks By Professional Athletes | publisher = New York City Department of Parks & Recreation | date = August 23, 2006 | url = http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_newsroom/press_releases/press_releases.php?id=19805 | accessdate = 2009-10-02 }}</ref> and Mark Chasnov.<ref name=Drechsler2010/> Generally in the 1970s there were no local, national or international competitions for women weightlifters,<ref name=Drechsler2010/> and women's weightlifting was not seen so much as a legitimate sport but more as a "freak show".<ref name=SI/> She commented in ''Sports Illustrated'' in 1987 that "people think women weightlifters are squat and muscle-bound, with all the intelligence of amoebas".<ref name=SI/>

But in the 1980s and in subsequent decades, women's athletics were becoming more prominent.<ref name=twsNewsOK>Gil Broyles, July 30, 1989, NewsOK, [http://newsok.com/marshall-has-heavy-load-image-of-sport-on-lifters-shoulders/article/2274432 Marshall Has Heavy Load Image of Sport on Lifter's Shoulders], Retrieved November 15, 2014, "...(Marshall's) a fantastic spokesperson for the sport in that she represents the true meaning of the amateur athlete"....</ref> Marshall's first competition was the qualifying meet for the 1979 Empire State Games in White Plains, New York.<ref name=SI/> She won her first national championship in 1981.<ref name=journal/> During the 1980s, Marshall won her weight class six times out of seven and set 45 national records. In 1983, 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 {{convert|130|kg|adj=on}} overhead;<ref name=Drechsler2010/> according to Drechsler, the Sandwina record inspired Marshall to work harder.<ref name=Drechsler2010/> Her training regimen included "more squatting, pressing and other strength building exercises."<ref name=Drechsler2010/> In 1984, she made it into the ''Guinness Sports Record Book'' with a {{convert|289|lb|adj=on}} ''clean and jerk'', an Olympic event featuring a two-stage lift of a barbell above one's head. This lift topped the Sandwina record.<ref name=SI/> In 1984, she was recognized as the world record holder for women's weightlifting in the 82.5&nbsp;kg category, based on her results from a competition in Florida.<ref name=tws02oct09>{{cite news |title=International Federations |publisher=LA 84 Foundation -- Olympic Information Center |date=2009-10-02 |url=https://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1988/ore247/ORE247x.pdf |accessdate=2009-10-02 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20121210145653/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vDw84aru4LwJ:www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1988/ore247/ORE247x.pdf+%22karyn%22+%22marshall%22+%22gold%22+%22medal%22+weightlifting&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a |archivedate=2012-12-10 }}</ref> In 1985, Marshall lifted {{convert|303|lb}} in the ''clean-and-jerk'' lift.<ref name=tws02oct17/> In 1987, the first year in which there was a world championship for women in weightlifting,<ref name=tws02oct78>{{cite web | title = The History of Weightlifting | publisher = teamUSA.org | date = 2009-10-02 | url = http://weightlifting.teamusa.org/pages/1400 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091213032704/http://weightlifting.teamusa.org/pages/1400 | url-status = dead | archive-date = December 13, 2009 | accessdate = 2009-10-02 }}</ref> Marshall competed for the United States against a surprisingly strong team from China.<ref name=Drechsler2010/> She not only won her bodyweight category by {{convert|12.5|kg}} but she outlifted all athletes in the unlimited bodyweight category.<ref name=Drechsler2010/> She made the highest total in the competition to earn the title of ''World's Strongest Woman''.<ref name=Drechsler2010/> The ''Guinness Sports Record Book'' credited her as being the "world's most powerful female" because of her lifting {{convert|303|lb}} overhead.<ref name=twsNewsOK/> She won the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championship.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hickoksports.com/history/worldweightlift.shtml#wo75 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125033620/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/worldweightlift.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-25 |title=Sports History |author=Hickok |publisher=Hickok Sports.com |accessdate=2009-07-20 }}</ref> She was described as the "top American finisher" in the {{convert|181.75|lb}} pound weight class.<ref name=tws02oct44>{{cite news | author = Michael Janofsky | title = Olympic Notebook: 7 Unlikely Nations Join Winter Games | newspaper = The New York Times | date = November 16, 1987 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/16/sports/olympic-notebook-7-unlikely-nations-join-winter-games.html | accessdate = 2009-10-02 }}</ref> She said:

{{cquote|The most exciting moment was being the last American to lift at the 1987 Women's World Championship. The Chinese had dominated the competition, winning each of the other weight classes, and I was the last American hope. Lifting the most weight of the competition and winning three gold medals for myself, my team and my country was a most intense feeling.<ref name=journal/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/11/sports/sports-world-specials-weight-lifting-the-strongest-women-on-the-planet-again.html|title=Sports World Specials: Weight Lifting; The Strongest Women On the Planet - Again|author=Robert McG. Thomas Jr.|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1989-12-11}}</ref>}}

She married Peter Marshall in 1987.<ref name=Drechsler2010/> In 1988, she was listed in the New York Times roster of champions for women's weightlifting in the {{convert|82.5|kg}} category.<ref name=tws02oct12>{{cite news | title = 1988: The Year in Sports | newspaper = The New York Times | date = December 26, 1988 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/26/sports/1988-the-year-in-sports.html?pagewanted=2 | accessdate = 2009-10-02 }}</ref> In 1989, she won the women's heavyweight division by lifting a total of {{convert|507|lb}}.<ref name=tws02oct14>{{cite news | author = Barry Wilner, AP sports writer | title = Weightlifter, Diver Grab Spotlight—BYU's Courtney Nelson Wins Women's Platform Diving Preliminaries | publisher = Deseret News -- Salt Lake City | date = July 29, 1989 | url = http://www.deseretnews.com/article/57319/ | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130121151013/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/57319/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = January 21, 2013 | accessdate = 2009-10-02 }}</ref> She won silver medals in international competitions—Jakarta (1988), Manchester (1989) and Sarajevo (1990).<ref name="Medallists from previous World Championships ">{{cite web|url=http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BCK/WL/37379.shtml|title=Weigntlifting: Medalists from previous World Championships - Women - Total|publisher=The official website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games|accessdate=2009-06-28|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915043606/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BCK/WL/37379.shtml|archivedate=2008-09-15}}</ref> In 1989, Marshall won the women's heavyweight division lifting a total of {{convert|507|lb}}.<ref name=tws02oct08>{{cite news | title = Results Plus | newspaper = The New York Times | date = July 29, 1989 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/29/sports/results-plus-558389.html | accessdate = 2009-10-02 }}</ref> She was viewed by officials of women's weightlifting as a representative for the sport, and Mary Ann Rinehart described her as a "fantastic spokesperson" who "represents the true meaning of the amateur athlete."<ref name=twsNewsOK/> In 1999, Marshall won a gold medal in the open division middle heavyweight division (+75&nbsp;kg or +165¼ pounds).<ref name=tws02oct23>{{cite news | title = Open Division -- Women's Event -- Mid Hvwt | publisher = Empire State Games | date = 1999-07-22 | url = http://www.empirestategames.org/summer/results/sport_results.asp?year=1999&sport=WE&division=O&clean=0 | accessdate = 2009-10-02 }}</ref> She is an eight‑time United States Weightlifting Federation (USWF) champion and New York State record holder for the United States Powerlifting Federation (USPF). She is the first woman in history to ''snatch'' over 200 pounds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chiroweb.com/print_friendly.php?pr_file_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chiroweb.com%2Fmpacms%2Fdc%2Farticle.php%3Fid%3D44118%26no_paginate%3Dtrue%26p_friendly%3Dtrue|title=A Lift for Chiropractic|author=Editorial Staff|publisher=Dynamic Chiropractic|date=1991-02-15}}</ref> A snatch is the other Olympic event in which a barbell is raised from a platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement, pulled as high as possible, typically to mid chest height. Marshall holds the IWF World Record for the snatch lift at {{convert|248|lb|abbr=on}}.<ref name=journal/>

In 1991, in a send-off of the United States team to the Olympics, Marshall set "Festival records for the snatch (198&nbsp;1/4), clean and jerk (264&nbsp;1/2) and total (462&nbsp;3/4) at 181&nbsp;3/4 pounds."<ref name=tws02oct02>{{cite news | author = Scott Howard-Cooper | title = U.S. Olympic Festival Los Angeles 1991—Weightlifting—Team Gets Special Send-Off | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | date = July 22, 1991 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-22-sp-161-story.html | access-date = 2009-10-02 }}</ref> By 1991, she had won a total of one world championship (1987), 63 American records, and 8 world records.<ref name=tws02oct55>{{cite news |author=Ann E. Sudekum |title=The Olympics and sports chiropractic: World Champion Weightlifter Studies to Become Chiropractor (page 35 of pdf file; page 37 of numbered journal pages) |publisher=ACA Journal of Chiropractic |date=June 1992 |url=http://www.acatoday.org/membersonly/jaca2/1992_06.pdf |accessdate=2009-10-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720114222/http://www.acatoday.org/membersonly/jaca2/1992_06.pdf |archivedate=July 20, 2011 }}</ref> She appeared on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', the ''Joan Rivers Show'', ESPN, CNN, and various other prime time news and sports broadcasts.<ref name=tws02oct55/> In 2011, she became a coach at CrossFit in Shrewsbury, New Jersey.<ref name=twsMarC>{{cite news |author= Andréa Maria Cecil |title= Hear Her Roar |publisher= CrossFit Journal |quote= ...Karyn Marshall ... has joined CrossFit Shrewsbury in New Jersey as a member and coach. |date= March 3, 2011 |url= http://journal.crossfit.com/2011/03/hear-her-roar.tpl |accessdate= 2010-03-03 }}</ref>

Marshall began studying to be a chiropractor at Northeast College of Health Sciences based on her successful experiences as a patient.<ref name=tws02oct55/> She 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.<ref name=tws02oct55/> She explained her decision to become a chiropractor allowed her to "stay involved in health and fitness, while at the same time being able to use my knowledge and experience to help other people."<ref name=tws02oct55/>

During these years, Marshall continued to compete in weightlifting events; in 2006, competing at age 50, she set three records in the women's 50–54 category.<ref name=tws02oct04/> The first two records came in the snatch and clean and jerk events, and her total of {{convert|143|kg|lb|0}} set a record.<ref name=tws02oct04>{{cite news | author = Master Sgt. Steve Miller | title = Stout hosts U.S. Masters weightlifting championships | publisher = Sports | date = 2006-04-13 | url = https://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:gahpmy7IFzcJ:www.fbmonitor.com/monitor/2006/04%2520April/041306/PDF/65.pdf+%22karyn%22+%22marshall%22+%22gold%22+%22medal%22+weightlifting&hl=en&gl=us&sig=AFQjCNHrInvUziLeyJQJ0KQLNFZtJbjNcQ | accessdate = 2009-10-02 }}</ref> She also was described as having bench-pressed {{convert|238|lb}}, and made a "475 pound [215 kg] dead lift".<ref name=tws02oct55/> {{clear}}

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==External links== * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql91DtVrrf4 Karyn Marshall lifting 303 pounds] * [http://www.championchiro.com/index.php/about-us Champion Chiropractic website] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O33gmRUb6V8 TED talk 2015] {{Commons category|Karyn Marshall}}

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