# Chari Hawkins

Chari Wanda Hawkins (born May 21, 1991) is an American track and field athlete who competes in combined events. She won the 2022 U.S. Indoor Pentathlon title and has represented the U.S. in the heptathlon at the 2019 World Championships, finishing 12th, and at the 2023 World Championships, finishing 8th.

## Early life and education

Hawkins is from Rexburg, Idaho. She attended Madison High School. She studied family consumer science at Utah State. On a Santander scholarship, she completed a Master of Arts in International Education and Globalisation at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom in 2018.

## Athletics career
### University
#### Utah State

After leaving high school in 2010, Hawkins joined the Utah State University Aggies track and field, where she would compete from 2011 to 2015.
While at Utah State, she qualified for three NCAA Outdoor Championships in the heptathlon placing 11th in 2013, 9th in 2014, and 14th in 2015. She also competed at two NCAA Indoor Championships in the pentathlon, placing 14th in 2014 and 9th in 2015.

#### Bath

While pursuing her Masters degree, Hawkins represented TeamBath in British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) competitions, winning long jump gold and 100m hurdles silver. She broke a 30-year record when she won the heptathlon title at the 2018 England Athletics Combined Events Championships.

### Professional
#### 2016

In April 2016, Hawkins set a heptathlon personal best of 5878 at the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa, California. Later that year, she competed at the US Olympic Trials, placing 15th.

#### 2019

With a third place finish of 6230 at the 2019 USATF Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, Hawkins qualified for the 2019 World Championships in Doha, where she would go on to place 12th.

#### 2022

At the 2022 USATF Indoor Championships, she won her first national title, setting a Pentathlon personal best of 4492 and qualifying for the World Indoor Championships. At World Indoors in Belgrade, she recorded a no mark in the long jump and did not complete the pentathlon. In June, she earned recognition by USATF for Athlete of the Week for her first-place finish in the heptathlon at the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold event held in Arona, Spain where she achieved a personal best with 6,243 points.

#### 2023

In 2023, she made her return to the global championships with an 8th place finish in the Heptathlon at the World Championships in Budapest.

#### 2024

In March 2024, Hawkins placed 7th at the World Indoor Championships. At the US Olympic Trials she achieved a personal best in three events, and a new overall best score of 6,456 points, to place 2nd.
During the second event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, in the High jump, Hawkins failed to clear her first height of 1.71 metres, and scored zero points, putting her out of contention for a Heptathlon medal. She ended up finishing 21st, which was last of all the athletes who completed the seven events.

## International competitions

| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
| Representing the United States ||||||
| 2015 | Universiade | Gwangju, South Korea | 4th | Heptathlon | 5707 pts |
| 2019 | World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 12th | Heptathlon | 6073 pts |
| 2022 | World Indoor Championships | Belgrade Serbia | – | Pentathlon | DNF |
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 8th | Heptathlon | 6366 pts |
| 2024 | World Indoor Championships | Glasgow, Scotland | 7th | Pentathlon | 4388 pts |
| 2024 | Olympic Games | Paris, France | 21st | Heptathlon | 5255 pts |

## Personal bests

Outdoor
* 200 metres – 24.05 (-0.2 m/s, Eugene 2023)
* 800 metres – 2:14.76 (Eugene 2024)
* 100 metres hurdles – 13.04 (+0.4 m/s, Budapest 2023)
* High jump – 1.85 (Arona 2022)
* Long jump – 6.29 (+0.7 m/s, Long Beach 2019)
* Shot put – 14.67 (Eugene 2024)
* Javelin throw – 49.28 (Eugene 2024)
* Heptathlon – 6456 (Eugene 2024)
Indoor
* 800 metres – 2:22.08 (Crete 2016)
* 60 metres hurdles – 8.16 (Glasgow 2024)
* High jump – 1.84 (Spokane 2022)
* Long jump – 6.10 (Albuquerque 2023)
* Shot put – 14.02 (Beograd 2022)
* Pentathlon – 4492 (Spokane 2022)