Chari Hawkins is an American track and field athlete who competes in combined events. She became the 2022 US National Pentathlon Champion with a gold medal performance at the USATF Indoor Championships in Spokane, Washington. Chari Hawkins represented the US in the heptathlon at the 2019 World Championships in Doha finishing 12th overall.
Chari Wanda Hawkins was born on May 21, 1991. She attended at Utah State University, where developed her abilities and improved her performance.
In 2022, Chari Hawkins earned recognition by USATF for Athlete of the Week for her first-place finish in the heptathlon at the World Athletics Combined Events Tour event held in Arona, Spain where she achieved a personal best with 6,243 points. Other career heptathlon highlights include capturing bronze at the 2019 USATF Outdoor Championships, winning silver at the 2018 Pan American Combined Events, earning bronze at the 2017 Thorpe Cup, and finishing fourth at the 2015 World University Games.
Chari Hawkins competed in the 2016 Olympic trials, finishing 15th, but credits her 2017-18 year in England as her breakthrough. While earning her master’s degree in international education at the University of Bath, Hawkins won a gold medal at the British National Championships. She placed 12th in the heptathlon at the 2019 world championships in Doha, Qatar, despite an ankle injury shortly before the competition.
In the pentathlon event, Chari Hawkins won a bronze medal at the 2016 USATF Indoor Championships and finished fifth at the 2017 USATF Indoor Championships.
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