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TOP CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
• June 20, 2021: Cleared 1.96m to place first at the US Olympic Trials qualifying for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics
• May 29, 2021: Set her career person best high jump, 2.02 meters, at Chula Vista Field Festival. She took over the world outdoor lead for 2021 and moved to No. 4 on the all-time U.S. performer list.
• Feb. 7, 2021: Matched her then personal best high jump, 2.0 meters, at American Track League #3, Fayetteville, AR. “It was big for me to hit my personal best this early in the season.”
• 2019: 3rd place, Doha World Championships, 2.0 meters, Doha, Qatar.
• June 30, 2019: 2nd place, 45th annual Prefontaine Classic, 2.0 meters, Palo Alto, California.
• 2016: 1st place, U.S. Indoor Track & Field Championships, 1.99 meters, establishing a new World Junior Record (surpassed in 2019 by Yaroslava Mahuchikh at 2.04 meters) that is the current American Junior Record.
• 2016: 1st place, World Indoor Track & Field Championships, 1.96 meters, Portland, Oregon.
CURRENT RESULTS:
• June 20, 2021: 1st place, USA Olympic Trials, Eugene, OR, 1.96 meters
• May 29, 2021: 1st place, 2021 USATF Chula Vista Field Festival, Chula Vista, CA , 2.02 meters
• May 22, 2021: 1st place, 2021 USATF Throws Festival Tuscon, AZ, 1.99 meters
• May 15, 2021: 1st place, 2021 APU Last Chance Twilight & Multis, Azusa, CA, 1.98 meters
• April 3, 2021: 1st place, Chula Vista HP #1, CVEATC, Chula Vista, CA, 1.97 meters
• February 7, 2021: 1st place, American Track League #3, Fayetteville, AR, 2.0 meters
• January 24, 2021: 1st place American Track League #1, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1.90 meters
UPCOMING MOMENTS:
• August 5-7, 2021: Women’s High Jump at Tokyo Olympics.
ABOUT VASHTI CUNNINGHAM:
• After establishing a personal best mark of 2.0 meters in 2019, high jumper Vashti Cunningham is ready to raise the bar. First stop: 2.02 meters which Vashti accomplished on May 29, 2021. With this mark, Vashti took over the world outdoor lead for 2021 and moved to No. 4 on the all-time U.S. performer list. Tomorrow, the world: the women’s world record in the discipline, at 2.09 meters, has stood since Bulgarian jumper Stefka Kostadinova’s triumph way back in 1987.
Coached by her father, former NFL quarterback (and current Las Vegas Raiders Team Chaplain) Randall Cunningham, she burst onto the international track and field scene in 2015 with a win at the Pan American Junior Championships, clearing 1.96 meters. In 2016 she won the World Indoor Championships at 1.96 meters and the U.S.A. Indoor Track and Field Championships at 1.99 meters (the current American Junior record), and finished 2nd at the U.S. Olympic Trials at 1.97 meters. She finished 13th in her Olympic debut in Rio in 2016 (at age 18, she was the youngest U.S. Track and Field athlete to make the team since 1980) and has been on a rampage ever since. She turned pro in 2016, declining college scholarships in both volleyball and track and field to accept an offer from Nike.
She attributes her success to her dad’s coaching; her years of ballet study with her mom, former Dance Theatre of Harlem ballerina Felicity de Jager Cunningham; her God-given natural abilities and physique (she’s a lithe 6’1”), and her lifelong determination to keep up with her older brother Randall Cunningham Jr., also star high jumper. Cunningham balances her athletic career with passions for fashion design, photography, and modelling.
