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Biography of Stephanie
Brown Trafton
Club: Nike
College team: Cal Poly
Date
of birth: December 1, 1979 (1979-12-01) (age 28)
Place of birth: San Luis Obispo,
California
Residence: Galt, California
Height: 6 ft 4 in
(1.93 m)
Weight: 225 pounds (102 kg / 16 st 1 lb)
Stephanie Brown Trafton (born December 1, 1979) is an American track and field athlete who won the discus throwing gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She is a somewhat unusual modern athlete in that she is a two-time Olympian who has never qualified for the World Championships, nor won a major national championship. Pre-Olympic career
Brown Trafton has said she was inspired to become an Olympian as a 4-year-old watching Mary Lou Retton perform in the 1984 Summer Olympics. After a youth of attempting several different sports, she eventually divided her time between athletics and basketball. She competed in the discus and shot put at Arroyo Grande High School, and was the California State high school champion in shot put in 1996. After placing second in 1997, she recaptured the California shot put title in 1998. At the same meet, she added the California discus title to her resume. As of 2008, her 181.25 foot (55.25 m) throw to secure victory remains one of the 10 best American high school discus throws in history.
Nevertheless, she seemed to be headed towards a career in basketball, after being awarded a scholarship in the sport to Cal Poly. Her career was ended in that sport prematurely by a torn anterior cruciate ligament Thereafter, she concentrated on track and field. She competed at the collegiate level in shot put and discus from 1999 to 2003, but missed 2000, while recovering from the knee injury. Brown Trafton's highest finishes at the NCAA Division I national championships were fourth in discus in 2002 and fourth in shot put in 2003.
2004 Olympics
Prior to her marriage, Stephanie Brown competed at the Athens Games, but failed to advance past the preliminary round. She placed 22nd with a throw of 58.54 m, under her 61.89 m personal best at the time She has expressed contentment with her performance there, saying, "2004 gave me an awesome experience. I came to the Olympics just out of college. I was really nervous."
The 2008 Season
In the run-up to the
Beijing Olympics, Brown Trafton made what observers called "stunning improvement".
She began 2008 with a personal best that was unchanged from 2004. However, she
improved that mark in March, April and May of 2008. Coming into the Beijing Olympics,
her personal best was 66.17 m, achieved at the Hartnell Throwers Meet in Salinas,
California.
“ Before this year I never really dreamed I could throw over
210 [feet]. Now, I want to hit at least 64 meters every time ”
—Brown Trafton in May 2008
Until a June 21, 2008 mark of 66.51 m by Romanian Nicoleta Grasu, his throw stood as the longest on record anywhere in the world in 2008. Moreover, it was the third-best American throw of all time, behind efforts by Suzy Powell and Becky Breisch.
Immediately prior to Beijing, she had placed third at the U.S. trials with a throw of 62.63 m and second at the US national championship
Asked to explain her dramatic improvement, Brown Trafton pointed to a key difference in her training regimen. Unusually for her, she did not take time off between the 2007 and 2008 seasons. Instead, she spent what would have normally been the season hiatus working on the "supplemental training" of "balance, agility and flexibility" with Tony Mikia, a physical therapist/sports performance trainer.
2008 Olympics
Performance
Although called
by the mainstream American sports press "an unlikely savior of U.S. pride"
and a "field filler more than a medal contender", a radically improved
Brown Trafton actually came to Beijing with a reasonable possibility of winning.
She had executed the second-best throw posted in the sport in 2008. And she had
progressively upped her personal best by over 4 m across several meets during
the 2008 season.
“ I came to the Bird's Nest to lay a golden egg, and
that's what I did. ”
—her immediate reaction to victory
The first of her six throws displayed her progress to her competitors in Beijing. At 64.74 m, it bettered the field by almost two meters. She threw into the net on her second and third throws, then posted a 58.39 and a 61.30. By the sixth round, it was unnecessary for her to throw to win the gold medal, as the two remaining competitors had not bettered her initial mark. In the end, no one got within a meter of her first throw.
An American breakthrough
On a personal
level, her victory in Beijing was the culmination of a number of months of steady
improvement for the athlete, after years of inability to consistently post throws
above the 60 m mark. It was also the United States' first track and field gold
medal of the 2008 Olympics, after a few initial days of failure. But Brown Trafton's
gold medal in Beijing was more broadly notable for being the first American gold
in the event for 76 years.
“ I want to meet Mary Lou Retton. Please,
somebody hook me up. I have to meet Mary Lou. She was my idol. I had a leotard
just like hers. ”
—request after winning gold
It was only the second American medal in women's discus at a fully-attended Olympiad, along with Lillian Copeland's silver medal at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam.
It was the second American gold in the event, after Copeland's gold at the Depression-handicapped 1932 Summer Olympics. It was the fourth medal in American history, behind Leslie Deniz' silver won at the politically-boycotted 1984 Summer Olympics. Additionally, it was the first American medal in the sport won outside the city of Los Angeles since Copeland's silver medal in Amsterdam.
Global perspective
Despite
the significance of the victory to the US Track and Field program, Brown Trafton's
winning distance of 64.74 m caused one track and field reporter to label Beijing
a "low-standard competition". It wasn't a personal best for the athlete.
Nor was it an Olympic record, as Copeland's gold had been in 1932. In fact, not
only was Leslie Deniz' 24-year-old silver medal-winning throw longer than any
throw of the 2008 Olympics, but no gold medalist since Lia Manoliu in the 1968
games had posted a shorter winning distance. Only 2 of the 12 finalists at the
Beijing Olympics had a personal best under Brown Trafton's winning throw, and
the average personal best of the field was 66.75 m. However, she was peaking when
most of the field was in personal decline. When viewed against the prism of 2008-only
performances, the only members of the field other than Brown Trafton to better
the winning 64.74 m mark were Aretha Thurmond, Nicoleta Grasu and Yarelis Barrios.
In fact, only six women other than Brown Trafton had thrown better in 2008, and
they weren't all present in Beijing.
“ I know that by far this meet was
not in the top five this year as far as competitiveness. ”
—on the quality of the meet[
Given the marks set around the world in 2008, Beijing was never likely to present a competition like the one in 1988 that had produced Gabriele Reinsch's world record of 76.80 m. Matters weren't helped, as one commentator noted, by the Beijing weather. The windless, humid conditions on the evening of the competition were hardly ideal for discus throwing. And maybe, as Brown Trafton herself remarked, the competition was "a little more open" thanks to the banning of the prohibitive favorite, Russian Darya Pishchalnikova, for suspicion of doping.
Impact on personal life
Unlike many 21st century American Olympians, Brown Trafton had a day job as she prepared for the Beijing Games. Using skills rooted in her undergraduate degree from Cal Poly, she worked in computer-assisted design for a firm in Sacramento, California.
She
and her husband are both recreational hunters. She quipped to reporters that the
downside of the Beijing Olympics was that they occurred just as hunting season
opened in California. 2012 Olympics
Current sport
This article or section
contains information about a future performance in Olympic discus throw.
It
is likely to contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change
as the event approaches and more information becomes available.
Brown Trafton confirmed her intention to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics immediately after winning in Beijing. Noting the difficulties her sport has had with doping, she set a personal goal for the future of being "the first world-record holder that's a clean world record".
Given the near-universal description of her as "an American with British parents and a British passport" in British press coverage of the Beijing Olympics, it is possible that her status as a dual national may receive greater attention as the London Games approach Imagine going on a date with her, she would be the boss with most men, by a huge way, in strengh too, amazing. She could be masterful and call average height men, little man, and lift thuings they could not. She could probabably dress the average man against his will, in clothes she feels more suited to the affair.
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